Documentation

Risale-i Nur MCP is a connector that gives AI assistants such as Claude access to the works of Bediüzzaman Said Nursî. When the assistant discusses a topic, it reads the text here, quotes the text itself and shows the exact place of every passage it relies on, down to the sentence.

Connecting

Connector URL
https://mcp.risalemcp.com/mcp

claude.ai, Claude desktop and mobile

Open this link: claude.ai opens the add-connector dialog with the name and URL filled in. Or by hand: Settings › Connectors › Add custom connector, name "Risale-i Nur", URL as above.
Select Add. No account is needed; the connector works right away.
Make sure the connector is enabled in the conversation (tools menu in the message box) and ask your question.

Once added, the connector also appears in the desktop and mobile apps.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http risale https://mcp.risalemcp.com/mcp

Accounts

Every tool works without an account. Without an account, search by meaning has a shared daily limit and all requests a shared per-minute limit. Account holders have no limits: ask Claude in the conversation to sign in to Risale-i Nur; it shows a Connect card that opens the sign-in page. Accounts are currently created by the administrator; write to destek@risalemcp.com.

Using it

Ask as you normally would, in Turkish or another language. Examples:

Kıyametin vakti neden gizli tutulmuştur? (Why is the time of the Last Day kept hidden?)
Bismillah'ın önemi hangi temsille anlatılır? (Which parable explains the importance of Bismillah?)
How might a physician read the arguments for resurrection in the Tenth Word?

The assistant first searches the works, reads the relevant passages, then answers. In the answer:

every quotation from the works stands on its own line in quotation marks and ends with a number such as [1];
the Kaynaklar (sources) list at the end gives the full place of each number: work, section and the sentence's opening words, e.g. Sözler › Onuncu Söz › On iki Hakikat › Dokuzuncu Hakikat › “Hiç mümkün müdür ki; ölmüş…”;
what the text says and the assistant's own interpretation stand under separate headings.

When the assistant cannot find something in the works, it says so; it does not invent references or quotations. References come from the server's data and are checked before the answer is sent.

Coverage

44 works, about 126,000 sentences, in Turkish and Arabic:

The Risale-i Nur Collection: Sözler, Mektubat, Lem'alar, Şualar, the Lâhikas, Tarihçe-i Hayat and others.
Works of the early period: Muhâkemât, Münâzarât, Divan-ı Harb-i Örfî, Makalat, Nutuk, İşârâtü'l-İ'câz, el-Mesnevî el-Arabî and others; works written in Arabic in both Arabic and Turkish.
Compilations: Asâ-yı Mûsâ, Zülfikâr, Sirâcü'n-Nûr and others, matched to the main volumes so no sentence is counted twice.
Hizbs: Hizbü'l-Kur'ân, Hizbü Envâri'l-Hakāik.
The Qur'an: the vowelled Arabic text and two Turkish translations by Diyanet; verses quoted in the works are matched to the Qur'an's text.

Not yet included: the Turkish Kızıl İcaz, Fihrist Risalesi and Hizb-i Nurî.

Tools

All tools are read-only; none changes anything.

Tool	What it does
`search`	Search by the text's own words: exact phrases, word beginnings, AND / OR / NOT, proximity.
`semantic_search`	Search by meaning: finds a concept asked in today's words in the text's older vocabulary.
`read_section`	Reads a section with its subsections and the author's footnotes (hâşiye).
`get_passage`	Gets a sentence or a range of sentences with its neighbours.
`get_outline`	The heading tree of a work or section.
`list_works`	The list of works.
`find_sentence`	Finds a sentence from its opening words.
`find_ayah`	Where a Qur'anic verse is quoted in the works and which sections tie themselves to it.
`get_ayah`	A verse of the Qur'an: vowelled text and two Diyanet translations.
`cite`	Checks the answer's quotations and builds its list of sources.
`sign_in`	Sign in with an account.

Things to keep in mind

Translations of verses and hadiths in the works are the publishers', added later, not the author's words. The author's own explanation ("Yani, …") is part of the text.
Translations: the Turkish of works written in Arabic is a translation; the commentary in Kızıl İcaz is by Abdülmecid Nursî. The assistant takes care not to attribute these to the author.
Links to verses are found by rules in the text's own wording; they are not a judgement that a passage is the exegesis (tafsir) of a verse.
There are no page numbers; places are given as work › section › sentence.

Sources and permissions

The texts are taken unchanged from the sources below. The text sources have given permission for this use; we thank them for their service.

e-Risale (erisale.com): most of the Risale-i Nur Collection and the early works.
kastamonur.com: the speeches and articles from Âsâr-ı Bedîiyye.
risale.online: Zülfikâr, Tılsımlar, Sirâcü'n-Nûr, Gençlik ve Hanımlar Rehberi.
risaleoku.com: Hizbü'l-Kur'ân, Hizbü Envâri'l-Hakāik, Küçük Sözler.
rasaelalnour.com (İhsan Kasım es-Sâlihî): the Arabic works.
Keşif Yolculukları Risale-i Nur education programme (Ediz Sözüer): the Turkish translation of Ta'likat.
Tanzil Project: the Qur'an's text and the translations of the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı) and the Turkish Diyanet Foundation (non-commercial use).
Quran.com: mushaf page data used to decode the verses in el-Mesnevî el-Arabî.

Troubleshooting

The assistant does not use the connector: check that it is enabled in the conversation, and mention "Risale-i Nur" in your question.
Tools look outdated or a tool fails: Claude caches the tool list. Disconnect and reconnect the connector, or start a new conversation.
"Daily limit" or "too many requests": the shared limit for use without an account is reached. Try again later or sign in.
A reference or quotation looks wrong: please send the question and the answer to destek@risalemcp.com.

Contact

Nur Hadimleri is a volunteer, independent project, not the official service of any publisher or community. For questions, suggestions and error reports: destek@risalemcp.com.