We Nur students have for the past twenty years been the target of unprecedented penalties and torments. We have exercised patience. Now Almighty God has sent you to assist us. Utilizing the correct legal procedures, three courts over thirteen years have been unable to find in one hundred and thirty books and a thousand letters the reason for those torments; as witnesses to this, we cite the Court of Appeal and Denizli Court. I gave up politics thirty years ago. Now, together with congratulating the President of the Republic and the Cabinet on their taking over the leadership of the Ahrar and taking on themselves the nation's destiny, I am divulging a fact; it is like this:
Those who have attacked us and punished us in the courts advanced the possibility that the Nur students might exploit religion for politics and suggested that they were doing so. So in the face of those tyrants we declared the following in our defences supported by thousands of proofs, and we still say: Although they have vindictively scrutinized more than three sack-loads of documents over a period of three years, our enemies have realized that they can convict us of nothing since the basis of our way is not exploiting religion for political ends but to make it the tool of nothing except divine pleasure, not even the world or worldly rule. They could not even find a pretext for the arbitrary sentences they gave us, so the Appeal Court quashed their decision. We do not exploit religion for politics. Our duty in the face of those who in bigoted fashion exploit irreligion for politics to the awesome harm of this country and nation, is - when the definite necessity arises that we do consider politics - to make politics the tool and friend of religion so that it may lead to winning the brotherhood of three hundred and fifty million brethren for the brothers in this country.
In Short: In response to our tormentors fanatically exploiting politics for irreligion, we have worked for the happiness of this country and nation by making politics the tool and friend of religion.
My brothers, I consider this appropriate and refer it to you for your consultation.
My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
I was going to write you a letter today. I was feeling agitated due to my serious indisposition when just at that moment Mustafa Gül and İbrahim Gül appeared, They were both medicine for me, and consolation, and the cause of great joy, so I am sending those two blessed brothers to you as a letter and as my deputies. They are both Saids and are visiting you and congratulating you in my place, and will tell you the other things I had to say to you.
To: Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Emirdağ
I was exceedingly touched at your cordial congratulations and offer my thanks.
In His Name, be He glorified!
Peace be upon you and God's mercy and blessings, for ever and ever
My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
Firstly: We congratulate you on the month of Ramadan, which with its worship wins a permanent life of eighty years, and beseech from divine mercy that every one of its nights will yield as many benefits for us as the Night of Power, and that in accordance with the inner meaning of the division of labour and each select Nurju receiving a share of the spiritual gains of all the Nurjus, each will be enabled to perform with thousands of tongues, and true brotherhood and sincerity, his worship, supplications, seeking of forgiveness, and glorifications, and so do I hope.
Secondly: Together with the Risale-i Nur's total moral victory, the Mason section of the irreligious and the atheist section of the communists are making mountains out of molehills and trying under false pretenses to
prevent the Risale-i Nur's free publication. For once again they have meaninglessly and without reason postponed our court hearing for thirty-five days. They even had a noisy argument with our lawyer so as not to return our Qur'an, but divine providence thwarts all their schemes. The Risale-i Nur is spreading itself magnificently and enthusiastically among the enlightened youth of Istanbul and Ankara, and is giving instruction to its students. One result of this moral victory is that the enlightened young people are sending thanks and congratulations with hundreds of signatures to the Prime Minister, who is endeavouring to have the call to prayer restored to its original Arabic.
Thirdly: The students here send you congratulations for Ramadan, and have chosen some examples of the many instances of the former communists' torments, having copied them out and are sending them attached. Perhaps at some time they may publish them in a newspaper article.
I send my greetings to all my brothers and sisters, and offer prayers for them
From your brother who due to illness cannot perform his worship in all respects and is in need of the Nurjus' spiritual help, and for their praying in his stead and of their spiritual gains,
In His Name, be He glorified!
[The first example of the hundreds of illegal torments wrongfully inflicted on our Master while the Republican People's Party was in power.]
One example of the injustices perpetrated on our Master over the last twenty-five years by an absolute despotism and due to the stratagems of an atheistic current the likes of which have not been seen this age on the face of the earth, is this:
One day when leaving his house to go out into the countryside in a closed car for a breath of fresh air, a high-ranking official wanted to accost him in connection with his dress. We say the following in the face of this
impudence which was in five ways illegal and in five ways entirely lacking in conscience.
Our Master is someone who could not endure to be slighted by the domineering behaviour of a sultan; and in reply to Hurşid Pasha, the chief of the military court, and its other members, in the Second Constitutional Period, declared: "If constitutionalism consists of one party's absolutism, let all mankind and the jinn witness that I'm a reactionary and ready to sacrifice a thousand lives if I had them for a single matter of the Shari'a!" who told Mustafa Kemal in the National Assembly: "Anyone who does not perform the prayers is a traitor, and traitors do not have the right to govern!" who has never given up his Islamic dress, and who told the Governor of Ankara, called Nevzat, who wanted to interfere with his dress and received a blow by killing himself: "This turban comes off with this head," pointing to his neck and rejecting any interference; whose turban they could not remove in any of the courts of Isparta, or Eskişehir, or Denizli even; and with the exception of the last Afyon trial, he was not ordered to even when there were crowds of thousands of people and twenty police.
Thus, the intention of those ill-mannered officials in intervening in his dress although he is a recluse, and insulting him, was directly on account of anarchy to cast the country and nation into danger. It was also entirely illegal. He is a person who for years and with unequalled self-sacrifice and abnegation of self has striven in the most arduous conditions to save with his wondrous works consisting of one hundred and thirty treatises the belief of this country and nation. To assault such a person in this way surely means assisting the covert enemies of this country, who strive to destroy and corrupt the nation and its youth. We understood from the fact that our Master, who could never endure insults, endured and attached no importance to the denigrating abuse of a couple of obdurate wretches in Afyon, joined and incited by an atheist Mason, was that he has sacrificed even his honour, reputation, self, spirit, and tranquillity so that no harm should come to this country and nation because of himself.
My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
Firstly: We congratulate you on the joyous reciting of the Arabic call to prayer from the minarets, for it is the introduction to great festivals for both yourselves, and this country, and the world of Islam, and delivers the good news that the marks of Islam will once again shine forth in this country. And saying "Amen" to your acceptable prayers and worship in Ramadan, which wins an eighty-year life of worship, I beseech divine mercy that every night of Ramadan will gain for you the reward of the Night of Power. I request spiritual assistance from you this Ramadan, since I am unable to work well due to my extreme weakness and illness.
Secondly: One of my greatest wishes is to pass the last part of my life in the region of Isparta. I said, as did the Nur Efe: "Isparta is blessed for me, with its very stones and soil." Even, whenever during the last twenty-five years I have felt angry in my heart with the former government, which illtreated and tormented me, I never felt angry at the Isparta authorities, and forgot the others for their sake. I am particularly grateful to the zealous lovers of freedom there, called Democrats, who are true patriots and have started to repair the damage, and who appreciate the Risale-i Nur and the Nurjus. I offer many prayers for their success. God willing, those lovers of freedom will do away with the old absolute tyranny and work for the establishment of a freedom that is congruent with the Shari'a.
Thirdly: For a particular reason, I have to stay here for some time following the festival. A month or two after that, I shall accept to go wherever you deem suitable, on the decision of the leading members of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ and the agreement of the young Saids in Istanbul and Ankara Universities. Since you are my true heirs and you perform my duties in this world a thousand times better than I do, I am leaving it to you to decide where my last dwelling place should be in this life.
Fourthly: I appoint you to deputize for me if you reply to the letters of Ahmed Nazif, Ahmed Feyzi, Halil Ibrahim, Hasan Atıf, and the Nurjus in Bucak, Eflâni, and Istanbul who have sent their congratulations and shown their strong attachment.
My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
Firstly: In connection with the vigil of the Night of Power, which according to a Hadith falls in the second half of Ramadan, particularly the last ten days, and the odd numbers and especially on the twenty-seventh,
and which may win an eighty-year life of worship, I beseech divine mercy that every one of you together with all the Nur students, and particularly this wretched, most faulty, ill, weak brother of yours, will receive a share and that your supplications will be accepted at the divine court, affirmed by thousands of amens.
Secondly: The young Saids in the university are in truth performing in Ankara and Istanbul the tasks of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ, leaving no need for this wretched Said. As an example of the Risale-i Nur's being in every way sufficient, I am now sending you attached the statements they wrote addressing the deputies, for your information and to be put at the beginning of the seventy copies of the biography, which was also prepared by them, so as to be sent to the seventy deputies. If you consider it appropriate, the statement may be added to the biography as a sort of addendum together with Sungur's defence for the Education Ministry, which I sent to you previously, and Mustafa Osman's petition to Minister of Justice, with fifty to sixty copies either written out by hand or typed, or duplicated in the new letters in İnebolu. I leave this to your discretion,
Thirdly: The leading members of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ are my genuine deputies; they may reply in my place to the letters sent to me, In particular, they should reply suitably to those persons whose names are written in Husrev's letter. We are sending attached part of the reply to the letter Ahmed Feyzi wrote you.
We congratulate all our brothers and sisters on the blessed month of Ramadan and its nights, and send greetings and prayers, and request their prayers.
In His Name, be He glorified!
[We are informing Sebilürreşad, the disseminator of truth, of the treatment meted out by the People's Party which was illegal in a hundred ways.]
Our Master, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, whose illness from poison was worsening so that he feared for his life, sent eight books he had bought with his own money to his brother, a mufti, to protect them. For some secret purpose, the official in the Emirdağ post office seized the books as though he were a policeman, and in person went and told the gendarmes,
the kaymakam, and the judiciary, and phoned Afyon, and creating a furore had the books handed over to the court. The books, however, consisted of the following: five were court defences and their addenda, and three were works the acquittal of which the present Minister of Justice, Halil Özyörük, had three times ordered and Denizli Court had returned. Afyon Court, too, quashed their judgement and had acquitted them.
It's true that Fuat Sirmen, who is the former Justice Minister and a communist, had denounced the works to the former Cabinet and had attempted to have the four-hundred-page Zülfikar Collection - which is a completely strue and beneficial commentary on the Qur'an - prohibited on the pretext of two pages about two verses written thirty years earlier, whereas now the works of the communists and Masons are permitted despite being extremely harmful for the nation and country. So we suggest that to subject this most true and useful commentary on the Qur'an which - as is testified to by thousands of people - has saved the belief of thousands to such treatment as though it consisted of harmful rags, and to cause our Master such sorrow just when he is ill and vulnerable because of his brother, was illegal in multiple ways.
Secondly: An extremely devious and hidden aspect of this matter was this: our Master had gently encouraged his students to assist the Democrat Party materially and morally. The obdurate tyrants of the People's Party understood this, so making mountains out of a molehill, they instigated this incident. For everywhere these books were being sent hither and thither by post and from Istanbul and other places, and there was no interference. The incident was part of a cunning and unforeseen stratagem.
Thirdly: The former government is now being criticized in the press a thousand times more harshly than the two aforementioned verses in Zülfikar, so the interpretation of them can in no way be considered culpable. It is understood from this that the treatment mentioned above was a continuation of the People's Party's abitrary measures, and an example of their assertions that although the government is in the hands of the Democrats, true power and the actual executive remains in their hands.
To the President of the Republic, the Cabinet, the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Justice, and Directorate of Religious Affairs, Ankara
I am explaining a few points for those persons who work for true justice and freedom.
First Point: Both Denizli Court and Ankara Criminal Court scrutinized all the parts of the Risale-i Nur and together with the committee of experts took the decision that there was no objection to acquitting them and returning them to their owners, and they also acquitted Said and his companions and discharged them. Although the Court of Appeal ruled that this same decision was res judicata, now the same Court of Appeal has again quashed Afyon's completely baseless decision against Said and his friends and the quite illegal seizing by two people with personal malice against Said, of those same books and his wonderfully handwritten miraculous Qur'an. And although some of the zealous, patriotic Democrat leaders who have saved the country and nation from the vindictive despotism of the former party accept and appreciate fully those treatises, for three years to cause penurious people like us a loss of thousands of liras and to prolong for three years a case that has been acquitted three times, is an extraordinary injustice and the result of personal animosity. For twenty months while in absolute solitary confinement they did not allow my assistant even to have contact with me. On being released, they posted two policemen on my door. Also, in order to disparage those genuinely God-fearing Nur students just because of their piety, they held their trial at the time of the evening prayer, causing them to perform it later and thus perpetrating a wilful injustice. Also, one time they also confiscated the entire Risale-i Nur in Isparta, and again returned it having studied it.
Since now in the Democrats' time, there is a revival of such marks of Islam as the call to prayer and religious instruction and work with the Qur'an, and a start has been made to repair the harms caused to the Qur'an by the former party; and since the works of the irreligious, the Masons, and the communists are being published; for sure, those people who are seizing such blessed collections as Zülfikar, The Staff of Moses, and The Shining Lamp (Siracü 'n-Nur), which have been commended and appreciated by leading Islamic scholars in such places as Mecca, Medina, and Damascus, and have been read to the scholars of the Directorate of Religious Affairs, and have silenced the scientists, are not doing this on account of justice, right, and truth, but with malicious intent on account of communism and
Masonry. Moreover, in addition to those books they have confiscated and held for three years the miraculous Qur'an, which is worth thousands of liras and in which the name of Allah is written in gold and which the Head of the Directorate holds in esteem and is trying to have printed. Because I am seriously ill from poison and unable to defend my rights, I am appointing Sungur as my deputy. I await from the justice-loving ministers of the new government that they halt the destruction caused by the former government and their past twenty years of tormenting me. I appoint Mustafa Sungur, one of my brothers, as my deputy.
[A significant fact and a conversation of the university Nurjus with the Democrats.]
At the wish of the nation, the Democrats have secured the free expression of the marks of Islam; now, the sole means of gratifying both the country and the nation is to make the movement for Islamic unity a source of support for themselves. Formerly, the self-interested policies of the British, French, and Americans opposed and prevented this, but now they are in need of it. For communism, Masonry, atheism, and irreligion lead directly to anarchy, and it is only Islamic unity based on the truth of the Qur'an that may resist these awesomely destructive forces, And again it is only Islamic unity that may be a means of saving both humanity from this peril, and this country from foreign invasion and this nation from anarchy, Therefore, it is essential that the Democrats rely on this truth with all their strength and take a stand against the communist and Masonic currents.
By leaving free the call to prayer, they gained strength for themselves twenty times greater than their own power. They won the nation's love and made it indebted to them. ... With their support for Islamic unity, the Nurjus form a significant mass backing the Democrats. However, some extremist sections of the former party with Masonic and communist leanings are preparing to deal the Democrats two heavy blows. In the former [pre-Republican] period, they swiftly overturned the liberals (Ahrarlar) when
they twice came to power, and also hanged numerous members of their ally, the Muhammadan Union. They have tried to show that the Democrats, known as the Ahrar, are more irreligious than they are themselves; and now it has clearly emerged that under the pretence of religiosity some of them are trying to incite the Democrats against religion, wanting them to cause harm to it like they do themselves. They are even trying to win the support of some official religious scholars (ulema) and incite them against the Democrats and to crush the Nurjus, who, being on the side of the Democrats, may oppose them. Then the ulema would not have recourse to the Democrats by means of the Nurjus, for the ulema incline to whichever side the Nurjus incline to; there is no movement more powerful that they may join.
Since the truth of the matter is this, the Democrats are obliged to placate and gratify both the Nurjus, and the ulema, and the nation, so as to prevent the extremist Mason and communist elements of the former party taking advantage of this point and attempting to overturn the Democrats, For the former party oppressed both the religious scholars and members of the Sufi orders throughout the past twenty-five years, forcing them to toady to them. It is absolutely essential so as not to lose the assistance of the Americans and their allies, that with all their strength the Democrats strive to revive and repair the marks of Islam, as with the call to prayer.
Regretably, some extremists, Masons, and communists pass themselves off as Democrats despite being opposed to them, with the intention of inciting the Democrats to take destructive measures and show them to be opposed to religion, so as to overthrow them.
In His Name, be He glorified!
Peace be upon you, and God's mercy and blessings, for ever and ever!
Our Dear, Loyal, Devoted Brother, Haji Ali!
We have received your valuable letter, which especially pleased our Master. Our Master says:
At the present time, the Risale-i Nur is sufficient. Scholars testify that they have benefited in one year from the Risale-i Nur to the extent they benefited from studying in the medreses for ten years. Thousands testify to
this. Haji Kılınç Ali has embraced the Risale-i Nur this last year and a half and has read part of it, so in my view is a Nur student of twenty years' standing. I mention him by name among the select students and make him a partner in my spiritual gains, so his share may be written in his book of good works. For his part, he is obliged to devote his life to the Risale-i Nur. A significant instance of wisdom in his having been unable until now to -go to al-Azhar University may be that the Risale-i Nur should suffice him. I nourish powerful hopes that he will be able to found a Nur School in Urfa, which is close to Aleppo and Damascus. Molla Abdülmecid in Damascus, who was an invaluable student of the Old Said, and Seyyid Salih, who is one of the Nur students in Urfa, and the devoted Nur student who is with him, should get in touch with him. I send many greetings to both Molla Abdülmecid, and Haji Ali, and to everyone in Damascus who is attached to the Risale-i Nur, and I request that they pray for me in that blessed place.
Our heroic brother, Haji Ali! Our Master often speaks of your devotion. We too applaud and congratulate you.
My Dear Brother!
Firstly: Mâsha'llah a thousand times over! There are almost no errors in the Words Collection (Sözler Mecmuası), just a few words, which I am sending attached.
Secondly: If you consider it appropriate, take this fifty liras I am sending you and take it on my account in lieu of the collections in the court. If you don't agree to this, take it as the price of my part of the collections which you sent.
Thirdly: For now, it is appropriate that the biography should not be given to the deputies gratis; those who ask for it, should pay for it. But ten to twenty copies should be kept in Ankara.
In His Name, be He glorified!
We heard the terrible news that two of the large collections of the wondrous Risale-i Nur Collection were going to be destroyed. Together with its other parts, those collections, which are completely true and veracious and silence the scientistic philosophers, have been acquitted by the courts of Denizli and Ankara and become res judicata, and their acquittal has been twice upheld by the Court of Appeal. The works have been appreciated and applauded in such centres of the Islamic world as Egypt, Damascus, Aleppo, Mecca, and Medina, and in recognition of that appreciation have been placed on the blessed tomb of the Prophet Muhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace), and on the Black Stone in the Ka'ba. Like the other transgressions of the Republican People's Party, this vicious treatment is an unprecedented outrage. We Nur students could easily have demanded our rights from those cruel tyrants, but by reason of the powerful compassion that the Risale-i Nur has induced in us towards the innocent children and elderly of the heroic Turkish nation, which for centuries was the standard-bearer of the Islam, and by virtue of the Qur'an's forbidding us from physical struggle and being a light we hold rather than a club, and due to the fundamental principle of our way, to maintain public order, we have been unable to respond to those tyrants materially. For, God forbid, if there were a definite necessity, those who cause it on account of the communists and Masons would regret it a thousand times over.
Furthermore, in consequence of our observations, we have come to hold the firm opinion that general calamities occur whenever the Risale-i Nur is assaulted in the name of atheism and irreligion. This has been confirmed by the fact that four times severe earthquakes have occurred simultaneously with attacks, and many other things have happened. We are therefore alarmed at the powerful possibility that if such a decision is carried out, causing the believers to tremble, and the crime towards those wondrous, valuable, blessed collections is perpetrated, spiritual storms and tempests, and earthquakes and plagues will be visited on this nation and country. For the coincidence four times of severe earthquakes with assaults on the Risale-i Nur has demonstrated this fact even to the blind. We even claimed this in court. No law in the world could seize and destroy the four-hundred-page Zülfikar Collection on the pretext of two pages expounding two verses of the Qur'an in line with the three hundred and fifty thousand commentaries of the exegetists, although it has most effectively served the
belief of hundreds of thousands of people. Anyone with any conscience at all would understand this clear evidence, showing just how far from truth, right, and justice are the perpetrators of this malicious felony, who are the mere tools of irreligion, and shower them with curses and loathing. The heroic Democrat government prevented this evil deed, which was instigated in the time of the tyrannical, reactionary persecutors of the People's Party. We are hopeful that they will return to us without delay the works that for three years have been held by Afyon Court and are in no way reprehensible, and foremost our gilded, miraculous Qur'an which shows the coincidences, and we request this from the relevant offices.
In His Name, be He glorified!
Our Esteemed, Heroic Brother!
Firstly: We wish to draw your attention to a matter of extreme importance: it should not be permitted that our large collections are destroyed; they should be saved whatever the price. Was the decision for their destruction given recently or previously? In your opinion, is this an official decision? Kindly learn the truth of the matter and let us know without delay.
Secondly: We are sending the communication giving information about this matter to the heroic Sungur in Ankara and to the Minister. We send you our greetings and respectfully kiss your hands.
Our Dear and Highly Valued Brother, Heroic Sungur!
Firstly: We send you our greetings and beseech Almighty God for your success in serving the Risale-i Nur.
Secondly: We wish to inform you concerning a most important, confidential matter. According to what we have heard, the one hundred and seventy copies of the The Staff of Moses and Zülfikar Collections which have been confiscated by the Isparta judiciary are the very books the acquittal and return of which has been affirmed by the Justice Minister and which
previously had been returned to our Master in Denizli. We have absolutely no doubt that the decision taken for their destruction, which would bring the earth and the heavens to anger and cause all beings to weep, is a plan against the Democrats devised by extremist members of the People's Party. For the extremist devils have understood that the Nur students protect the Democrats and are a powerful support for them. In this way, they are trying to turn the Nur students against the Democrats and cause the government's fall. Our Master therefore refers it to you to make the very greatest efforts to thwart this plan of theirs, to save the collections, and to have all our books in Afyon returned to us.
To the Government Ministry!
We are disclosing to your esteemed self on the subject of this nation's fate, a plan against the Democrats which is of the utmost seriousness and which Satan even could not have hatched. It is as follows:
The cunning fanatics of the People's Party have understood that the numerous students of the Nur community are protecting the Democrat Party. The community was formed by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, who, with extraordinary self-sacrifice has for twenty-seven years striven unobtrusively with his works against the irreligion, absolute despotism, and severe tyranny in this country. Even, in the regions the Nur students were most numerous, they covertly planted İsmet to spy on them and investigate them.
The Nur students have, with powerful faith, devotedly served Islam and the nation's belief in every part of Anatolia and have been a means of the tyrants' dominion crumbling. In consequence, in order to turn the Nur students against the Democrats and make them hate them, the Isparta judiciary took the decision to burn the Staff of Moses and Zülfikar collections. Yet these works save lives in this world and the next, and have illuminated and given guidance to hundreds of thousands of believers and numbers of university-educated youths, and have met with approval and applause in Arabia and Egypt and out of respect have been placed on the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad (Upom whom be blessings and peace) and on the Black Stone in the Ka'ba. We received news of this decision, which would bring the heavens and earth to anger and cause all creatures to weep. How- ever, these two lengthy works from the one-hundred-and-nineteen-part Risale-i Nur were acquitted unanimously in 1944 by Denizli Court and its
decision was ratified by the Appeal Court. The case became res judicata and all the works were returned to their esteemed author and their owners. The vindictive decision given latterly by Afyon Court on the particular orders of the communist deputy of the People's Party was quashed by the former just chairman of the Court of Appeal. Finally, with the general amnesty, a veil was drawn over their attempted slanderous accusations and the case was dropped.
While the truth of the matter is this and numerous defamatory publications are being freely disseminated, these moves are being made to destroy the truly veracious four-hundred-page collection on the pretext of two pages of commentary on a verse from the Qur'an, and charges are being made of its violating the law. The purpose of this, which is being carried out directly on account of the former tyrannical party, is to turn the hundreds of thousands of Nur students against the Democrats, to eliminate this powerful source of support for them, and to bring down the Democrat government. We are informing you of this diabolical plan in order to thwart it, and we offer our respects.
Our Most Esteemed, Blessed, Beloved, and Kind Master!
The Directorate of Religious Affairs had the miraculous, handwritten Qur'an in which the name of Allah is inscribed in gold, sent from Afyon Court, and the day before yesterday dispatched it to the Qur'an Examination Committee in Istanbul. It will be returned after having been examined by the committee, which will authorize its publication.
Also, the Consultative Committee of the Directorate has studied the petition sent to the Directorate by the heroic Ahmed Altın of Akşehir, a copy of which he had earlier sent to our beloved Master, In consequence, they are going to give one of the two sets of the Risale-i Nur which our Master sent as a gift to the Directorate to the Consultative Committee to study. We have an esteemed brother in the Directorate who is working to this end, In truth, Ankara, which was completely enveloped in darkness, has changed remarkably and is continuing to change gradually. The poi- sons that were being scattered have lost their effectiveness, as have the demonstrations of the youth.
My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
Firstly: Bârekâllah, a thousand times over! We declare Mâsha'llah! and All praise be to God! thousands of times, both at The Words Collection being written out beautifully and correctly, and at the seized collections being saved from destruction, and your obtaining some of them as a sample.
Secondly: I refer it to the leading members of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ to reply suitably in my place to the letters that come to me. For instance, I am most gratified at the effective services rendered to the Risale-i Nur by Osman Nuri in Ankara, like a Hasan Feyzi there, and his preparing a house for me there next to his, and his being resigned at his own illness as though, like Hasan Feyzi, he was assisting me when I was ill by alleviating it. I am still waiting here, because we have not yet received our books from the court. I want to be present there when our Qur'an and some of our collections are printed, but I cannot go now because there are many pressing jobs here, so he should not feel offended. If he had not been there, I would have had to go myself. But he leaves no need for me. May God be pleased with him and grant him success!
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Thirdly: I affirm the letter sent by our steadfast, serious brother from Atabey, Abdullah Çavuş. The meanings I gave certain Hadiths forty years ago are again becoming apparent. Even the obdurate are compelled to admit it. Time is affirming the predictions made in the Fifth Ray of The Shining Lamp (Siracü 'n-Nur), that absolute despotism suffers the torments of Hell in this world too. The sincere letter of İhsan from Samsun shows that a Samsun deputy who came here and obtained for himself a full set of the Risale-i Nur was the cause of a light-scattering awakening in that region, for it has resulted in the appearance of such people as İhsan. I am including both of them in my prayers.
Fourthly: The correspondence of the alifs in the Twenty-Ninth Word is truly a wonder, just as it is a wonder that they come out so beautifully when duplicated by machine.
I send my greetings to everyone.