Shura Trust is a non-profit organization committed to serve all people who seek to understand the meaning of life, the universe and the individual by intellectual, social and religious activities. Shura Trust provides spiritual guidance to people through intellectual and spiritual gatherings in which particular focus is given on the teachings of the Qur’an and the Risale-i Nur (Rasala an Nur), a modern Qur’anic commentary.
With community centres in nearly all the major cities and members all over the country, Shura Trust is a considerable movement in encouraging positive contributions to British society through the contribution to the faith of British Muslims. Our focus is to keep the British Muslim community faithful, sincere, responsive, and honest by educating ourselves and others in belief, religion and general humanitarian values.
Registered to the charity board in the UK in 2016, Shura Trust have had a dynamic social base providing Islamic Education to British Muslims since 1970’s in community houses and study centres. They serve as centres for learning the pillars of belief and the foundations of religion for people of all ages from all levels of society. Our members range from various Sunni Islamic backgrounds and help us to achieve our aim to focus on areas which provide a sound understanding of the basics of Islam, and to instil tolerance in areas where there are minor differences of opinion.
The letters of SHURA represent our course of actions i.e., Sincerity, Honesty, Unity, Reflection, and Altruism.
Shura Trust aims at the moral and spiritual development and enlightenment of the self and others through inspirational readings and other activities. Shura Trust is an attempt for the acquisition of the truths of the Qur’an through the commentary Risale-i Nur (Rasala an Nur) written by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi.
In the centres of Shura Trust, each and every day study circles which basically depend on Qur`an and authentic traditions along with the Rasala an Nur readings are held. The most popular topics discussed generally includes the followings and other related topics.
- Logical explanations to the tenets of belief and religion and the purpose of man’s life in the world.
- Does God Created the world and left it to alone to its nature?
- What is the truth behind the veil of Nature?
- How can we rationalise the resurrection after death?
- How can evils, pains, and sufferings on Earth be reconciled with God’s names ‘All-Compassionate’, ‘All-Loving’, and ‘All-Just’?
- What are the principles of Qur’an offers to people for happiness in this world and the hereafter? And so on…
Field of Interests
Spiritual Guidance
Shura Trust commits to serve all people who seek to understand the meaning of life, the universe and the individual by intellectual, social and religious activities. Shura Trust provides spiritual guidance to people through intellectual and spiritual gatherings in which particular focus is given on the teachings of the Qur’an and the Risale-i Nur (Rasala an Nur), a modern Qur’anic commentary.
Development and Protection of Youth
For personal development, it is essential for young people to grow up at peace with their own cultural A young person who grows up far from his cultural background and article of faith will avoid learning from his mistakes. Because faith is the most effective way of internal accounting. A believer constantly puts himself to account and curbs the desires of his ego. Shura Trust aims to ensure that young people rise and develop without rejecting their own identities. Shura Trust provides educational activities, mentors, trainings, sports activities, day trips and reading camps for young people.
Fight Against Radicalism
The dawah is not with guns, but with ideas. No movement that does not prevail the conscience can remain in societies with brute force. Individuals who do not comprehend their own beliefs resort to brute force. Those who believe that their belief is the truth prefer to persuade people through mutual dialogue. Brute force begins where the ideas We think that the basis of radicalism is the weakness of faith. Shura Trust, therefore, aims to prevent people from falling into radical movements through faith and moral education.
Field of Interests
Spiritual Guidance
Development and Protection of Youth
Fight Against Radicalism
Shura Trust commits to serve all people who seek to understand the meaning of life, the universe and the individual by intellectual, social and religious activities. Shura Trust provides spiritual guidance to people through intellectual and spiritual gatherings in which particular focus is given on the teachings of the Qur’an and the Risale-i Nur (Rasala an Nur), a modern Qur’anic commentary.
- For personal development, it is essential for young people to grow up at peace with their own cultural A young person who grows up far from his cultural background and article of faith will avoid learning from his mistakes. Because faith is the most effective way of internal accounting. A believer constantly puts himself to account and curbs the desires of his ego. Shura Trust aims to ensure that young people rise and develop without rejecting their own identities. Shura Trust provides educational activities, mentors, trainings, sports activities, day trips and reading camps for young people.
The dawah is not with guns, but with ideas. No movement that does not prevail the conscience can remain in societies with brute force. Individuals who do not comprehend their own beliefs resort to brute force. Those who believe that their belief is the truth prefer to persuade people through mutual dialogue. Brute force begins where the ideas We think that the basis of radicalism is the weakness of faith. Shura Trust, therefore, aims to prevent people from falling into radical movements through faith and moral education.
Why Risale-i Nur (Rasala an Nur)?
We are living in an era which humanity has reached to an advanced level of material progress, however human nature remains the same. We human beings stand in need of most of the varieties of beings in the universe whereas we cannot cover them, is connected to them but we have not any power to sustain them. Our needs spread through every part of the world, but our power is not enough to collect them, and our desires extend to eternity, but we are destined to death. Just as we want a flower, so we want the spring. Just as we desire a garden, so does we also desire everlasting Paradise.
We as modern human beings tried our best to overcome our feeling of mortality and weakness by seeking temporal relief in materialistic ways such as: money, drugs, and other ways of so called entertainment, which are not available to all and their lose cause pain. The most important question is: Are we satisfied with these temporal solutions for our eternal and natural needs?
Naturally, we human beings are connected to the world around us, it makes difficult for us to distance ourselves from what is happening all around us. Namely as human beings even if we live in harmony and relative satisfaction in safe and advanced places of the world, we still react (are affected by) to the wars, death, starving, discrimination, inequality which happens outside of our geographical boundaries and other places of the world, which in turn affects our temporally peace of mind and joy and turn them into pain.
Throughout history, human beings had sought refuge in religion to cope with these pains of lose, and limitings. But as the time passed, even religion was targeted by the so called militant secularism, using science as a weapon to attack religion and claim the falseness and uselessness of the only refuge for humanity, in turn religion not only in its traditional way of dealing with these kinds of attacks, but also a new form, showing the compatibility of religion and science and that science works in accordance to the teachings of Islam, a contemporary interpretation of Qur’an was needed for the modern man. Thus, The Risale-i Nur Collection is one of those commentaries.
The Risale-i Nur (Rasala an Nur) Collection is a commentary on the Glorious Qur’an written by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, a famous Muslim Thinker (1877 – 1960). The verses of the Qur’an are expounded in the Risale-i Nur, it mainly includes: those concerned with the truths (matters) of belief, such as God’s existence and Unity, resurrection, prophethood, Divine Judgment or destiny, the revealed scriptures, angels, and man’s duties of worship.
The Risale-i Nur is uniquely fitted to address not only all Muslims but indeed all mankind for several reasons. First: it is written to deal with the problems of contemporary mentality, a mentality that whether Muslim or not has been deeply influenced by materialist philosophy: It specifically attempts to answer the most fundamental questions, doubts and confusions that this causes. Second: It explains the most profound matters of belief, which formerly only advanced scholars studied in detail, in such a way that everyone, even those to whom the subject is new, may understand and gain something without it causing any difficulties or harm.
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