was correcting it with great attention, even correcting wrong points and letters in the words. He asked me: "Do you know this [Ottoman] writing?", and got me to write a sentence.

"Ma'shallah! You write very well", he said. "Will you write out a treatise if I give you one?" When I said I would with pleasure, he gave me around nine of The Short Words. And he gave me the Eleventh and Twelfth Words for my father. "They must be written out exactly", he said. I asked his permission, and left him.

The Risale-i Nur was introduced into İnebolu in this way. Subsequently, hundreds of hands started to write it out, for five years their pens worked like a printing press. The Nur Postmen were organized between Kastamonu and İnebolu. And the various treatises of the Risale-i Nur were sent to Anatolia [by sea] from the port of İnebolu. This work was being carried on unceasingly in this way when I saw a duplicating machine in a shop in Istanbul. On learning that it duplicated at the rate of a hundred pages a minute, I bought it immediately and took it to İnebolu. First of all we duplicated the Seventh Ray, The Supreme Sign. When I took the first copy to Ustad, he was tremendously pleased. He expressed his feelings at the end of the work with these words:

"Oh God, grant happiness in Paradise to Nazif Çelebi and his blessed helpers, who have written five hundred copies with one pen!" [^147]

[^147]:Selahaddin Çelebi, in Son Şahitler, i, 138.

In the villages of Isparta the treatises of the Risale-i Nur were being written out by hand unceasingly. Bedre, İlema, Kuleönü, İslamköy, Sav, and Atabey; hundreds of people in these villages devoted themselves entirely to writing out the Risale-i Nur. 'Nur Exchange' Sabri, the 'Jetty Official', in the village of Bedre. The parts of the Risale and Bediuzzaman's letters would come to him. He would make copies immediately and send them by means of Nur Postmen to Eğridir, and from there they would taken to Hafız Ali in İslamköy. All were aware of the urgency of the task. In the village of Sav, and elsewhere, the women dedicated themselves with great devotion to this work, while the shepherds acted as carriers for the written pieces. [^148] We learn from one of Bediuzzaman's letters that his student Hüsrev, "one of the heroes of the Risale-i Nur", wrote out in his exceptionally fine handwriting four hundred copies of various parts of the Risale-i Nur over a period of nine to ten years, as well as three copies of the Qur'an which contained clear examples of the coinciding of Divine Name of Allah. [^149]

[^148]:Nursi, Kastamonu Lahikası, 62.

[^149]:Ibid., 72.