Abstract
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, in some of his treatises, considers the concept of need as an economic concept in the context of modern economics. However, he approaches this concept from the perspective of Islamic economics and draws a framework accordingly.
The most distinctive feature of Bediuzzaman's approach to the concept of need is that he approaches this concept from a religious and monotheistic point of view. At the focal point of this point of view, as with all beings, there is an approach to all beings, blessings and delights from the perspective of need, from the point of view of "Esmâü'l-Hüsnâ". Because there is endless helplessness, poverty and need in the creation of people, and they need a Creator who has endless mercy, wealth, power, treats and generosity. God, who has these and countless other attributes, displays these attributes in the world we live in with the reflections of Esmâü'l-Hüsnâ.
A person who looks at beings that are limited in all aspects like himself through this window will think of the hereafter, where that Names (Esmâ) will reflect eternally, based on manifestations and reflections. He will evaluate this world and everything he has from this point of view. He will act within the consciousness and circle of servanthood. It will never waste, it will not turn to ostentatious and luxurious consumption. He will think of others instead of himself. They will not be treated in an environment of brutal competition with them, but on a social ground where brotherhood, peace and solidarity prevail.
In this article, Bediuzzaman's approach to the concept of "need" will be discussed from his point of view, within the framework of the meanings attributed to this concept by Western and Islamic civilizations.