Moon Reaper

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The flesh dies, but names and ideas remain, friend. Superstition or not, cult or not. If the ideas cannot survive without the person that has developed them, then there is someting seriously wrong with those ideas. Either they're only applicable to same-minded individuals so that they cannot reach enough people to survive and thrive, or they are not even applicable to the person that has produced them, and he only held them alive during his lifetime through pure personal charisma or by means of fear and expulsion.

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For example this guy is quite similar to the recently deceased Moon. Just as Moon, he has written a number of books, which supposedly explain the Qur'an, but have weird references to angels allowing for radio signals to transmit from one place to another, or have messages that goes well beyond than just explaining the Qur'an, going deep into political issues of the time.
His ramblings are today preached as the one true explanation of the Qur'an by his believers, called "Nurcu", although when you bring them to account on the general ignorance and stupidity that is found in his books, called "risale", they come to you with explanations such as that we obviously did not read them right, or that they have such deep meanings and hidden messages that we cannot fully understand them..
Well, it's funny actually, that they were written to explain the deep meanings and hidden messages of the Qur'an, but contain even deeper meanings and hidden messages. That actually defeats the purpose of explaining something, but the ignorant believers of this man still go on, although he has not archived the status of Moon, he is close to being a second Joseph Smith, I'd say, but unlike him, this guy was put into a mental hospital by our gracious Sultan Abdulhamid the second, may he rest in peace, and is a clinic lunatic. He's presented as a "scholar" to people, although his knowledge of arabic and persian, along with the old Ottoman Turkish and script were quite base and unsophisticated.

Moon on the other hand seems to be a quite successful and clever man. However I'm quite sure that his ramblings will continue to persist just as Said's ramblings persist today, as ignorant people do not really want to read the Bible or Qur'an themselves to understand the message within, they simply want to hear someone else tell them what to do.