at him in amazement. For his dress, his manner, and his actions resembled no one else's... I'll never forget the way in that time of repression when the police and gendarmes were much feared, Ustad walking with firm and resolute steps towards the governor's residence escorted by the police, in exactly the same dress he had always worn and the way the onlookers stared at him in wonder, a shiver passing over the crowd watching him. [^201]

[^201]:Ibid., 380.

#### Parts of the Risale-i Nur Written in Kastamonu

*Parts of the Risale-i Nur Written in Kastamonu*

Between his arrival in Kastamonu in March 1936 and probably 1940 Bediuzzaman wrote from the Third to the Ninth Rays inclusive. [^202] Of these, the Seventh Ray, The Supreme Sign, was written in Ramadan of 1938 or '39. [^203] It was followed immediately by the Eighth Ray, [^204] and the summary of the Arabic Twenty-Ninth Flash, Hizb al-Akbar al-Nuri. [^205] Bediuzzaman sent numerous letters to his students in Isparta, and also while in Kastamonu, he prepared the final drafts of the First and Second Rays, which had been written in Eskişehir Prison. The second part of the Index, which included the parts of Lem'alar (The Flashes) subsequent to the Fifteenth Flash the Fifteenth Flash forms the Index for all the Words, Letters, and the First to the Fourteenth Flashes — was also written at this time by some of Bediuzzaman's students in Isparta. [^206] There followed after 1940 a period of cessation as far as writing new works was concerned. [^207]

[^202]:Şahiner, Said Nursi, 309-10; Nursi, Kastamonu Lahikası, 157.

[^203]:Ibid., 26-7.

[^204]:Şualar, 611, 625.

[^205]:Nursi, Kastamonu Lahikası, 25-6.

[^206]:Nursi, Müdâfaalar, 156.

[^207]:Nursi, Kastamonu Lahikası, 157.

As the Risale-i Nur spread and became established Bediuzzaman had some of its parts put together in the form of collections, and some of these he had typed out in the new letters. This was in 1942 and 1943. One was a collection of four pieces for the High School boys. [^208] Abdullah Yeğin mentions above their writing out pieces in the new, Latin, script. There were other collections for which he suggested various titles, including what was later published as A Guide for Youth, and another called The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen. [^209] Bediuzzaman also put together other pieces on the resurrection of the dead to be included as addenda to the Tenth Word. [^210] In

[^208]:Ibid., 106.

[^209]:Ibid., 166-7.

[^210]:Ibid., 74.