but Ustad entering with a tray and two glasses of tea. We were overcome with confusion and embarrassment and sprang to our feet wanting to take the tray from him. But he lifted his hand and said, "No, no. It's me that has to serve you." My goodness, and he added "has to". What modesty! What courtesy! I never saw such courtesy and modesty anywhere...

We were studying the truths of the Qur'an and writing them. We were benefiting enormously. To tell him this one day, we said to him: "What would we have done, Ustad, if we had not found you?" And again with that tremendous modesty he replied to us: "What would I have done if I had not found you? If you are happy once over that you found me, I should be happy a thousand times that I found you." [^100]

[^100]:Re'fet Bey, in Şahiner, Nurs Yolu, 93.

Of the three parts of the Risale-i Nur written here, the Nineteenth, Twenty-Fifth, and Twenty-Sixth Flashes, called the treatises On Frugality, Message for the Sick, and For the Elderly, respectively, Re'fet Bey recalled the following about the writing of the Treatise for the Elderly. In the event, only the first thirteen 'Hopes' were written due to their being taken into custody by the authorities:

One day Ustad called us, and saying: "The Twenty-Sixth Flash is about the elderly. It consists of twenty-six Hopes. The First Hope..." , he began to dictate.

He dictated five or six Hopes, and it stopped at that. Some time passed and certain parts of other treatises were written in the interval. Then one day he called us, and without asking, without saying something like, "Where did we stop, just read out a bit", he continued to dictate from where we had left off.

That is to say, it was still fresh in Bediuzzaman's mind as though they had broken off five minutes earlier. Re'fet Bey then went on:

I used to go to him early, to assist him. One day I was a bit late. When I arrived, he said to me, "Brother! If only you had come a bit earlier, what I have just told this person (indicating the Kadı Zeynel Efendi beside him) would have made an excellent addendum to the treatise on Divine Determining." He had answered the Kadı's questions about Divine Determining and taught him on the subject of fate. We understood from all this that his works were born in his heart through Divine inspiration. And he would write at that time only. [^101]

[^101]:Ibid., 95-6.