The first volume of the Emirdağ Letters covers the period of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi's first stay in Emirdağ from August 1944 to January 1948, when he was sent to Afyon Prison. The letters and defence speeches he wrote during his incarceration in Afyon Prison from January 1948 to September 1949 are included in the Fourteenth Ray and in his official biography. This, the second volume of the Emirdağ Letters, contains letters written following his release till his death in 1960, during which period he resided mostly in Emirdağ and Isparta.

My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

In addition to congratulating you on the festival, I am now explaining to you, as I said I would, that in consequence of a sort of admonishment I have accepted each of you according to his degree as a Said, an heir, and a guard and defender of the Risale-i Nur. Since, owing to your excessively good opinion of me, you look on me as a master in the sciences of belief and in serving the Qur'an, I for my part award you diplomas, like the masters of former times awarded certificates for the religious sciences to those of their students who deserved them. And I congratulate you wholeheartedly and with all my life and spirit. God willing, as you have loyally and sincerely published the Risale-i Nur uptil now, so you will continue even more brilliantly, and become thousands of capable and strong Saids, devoted to their duty, in place of this powerless, weak, retired Said.