time after arriving, Mirza appeared, driving before him two cows and two oxen with their mouths bound. After the introductions, Said's teacher asked him the reason for this. Mirza replied in a modest manner:

"Sir, our fields are a fair way off. On the way, I pass through the fields and gardens of many other people. If these animals' mouths were not tied, it is possible they would eat their produce. I tie them up so that there is nothing unlawful in our food."

Having seen how upright Said's father was, Shaykh Nur Muhammad asked how she had brought up Said. Nuriye Hanım replied;

When I was pregnant with Said, I never set a foot on the ground without being purified with ablutions. And when he came into the world, there was not a day when I did not suckle him without being purified by ablutions.

Said's teacher had now discovered what he had come to learn. Of course such parents should expect to have such a son. They spent that night in Nurs and returned the following morning to Hizan. [^13]

[^13]:Şahiner, Said Nursi, 49-50.

#### One of the Nurs students will revivify the religion of Islam

"One of the Nurs students will revivify the religion of Islam"

After remaining a while longer with Sayyid Nur Muhammad, Said went together with his elder brother, Abdullah, to the village of Nurşin. Since it was summer, they then left the village together with the villagers and other students for the high pastures of Şeyhan. Once there, Said quarrelled with his elder brother, and they fell out. The teacher of the Tağ medrese, Mehmed Emin Efendi was angry with Said and asked him why he opposed his elder brother, But Said did not recognize the teacher's authority either, and told him that since the medrese where they were at the time belonged to the famous Shaykh Taği, he was a student like himself and did not have the right to act as a teacher. Then he left the medrese immediately for Nurşin, passing through a dense forest that was difficult to penetrate even by day. [^14]

[^14]:Ibid., 50; Tarihçe, 49-50.

It was later related from Bediuzzaman himself that the owner of the Tağ medrese, Shaykh Taği, used to show a close interest in the students from Nurs, rising at night during the winter to make sure they were all covered and would not catch cold. Moreover, he used to say to the older students:

Look after these students from Nurs well, one of them will revivify the religion of Islam, but which of them it will be I do not know at present. [^15]

[^15]:Şahiner, Said Nursi, 51.