times a day, all of your work will become worship and benefit you in the hereafter." [^270]

[^270]:Tarihçe, 403-6.

The guidance and close concern Bediuzzaman offered these people had considerable effect, for large numbers of those children did become Students of the Risale-i Nur in the future and serve the cause of religion and the Qur'an. And besides the people in the countryside who benefited, in Emirdağ itself the honesty and uprightness of the shopkeepers, traders, and craftsmen became well-known. A plainclothes policeman sent to spy on Bediuzzaman in 1947, even, remarked on this, when, while buying some butter, he saw the shopkeeper weigh the paper separately. In his words, "It was Bediuzzaman that made Emirdağ like this!" [^271]

[^271]:Abdurrahman Akgül, in Son Şahitler, i, 13.

#### The Risale-i Nur

*The Risale-i Nur***

If Hafız Mustafa had written to Sadık Bey from Denizli that Bediuzzaman had left in good health, Bediuzzaman described himself as being extremely ill, weak and wretched when a short time later he was settled in his house in Emirdağ in the month of Ramadan. It was poison that caused him to write to his students in Isparta, which he so loved, his first letter from Emirdağ, saying that it was only their prayers that had saved him from "the severe illness" he had suffered. [^272] Notwithstanding his wretched state — indeed perhaps because of it, since many parts of the Risale-i Nur were written when Bediuzzaman was afflicted with severe illness or distress — he wrote the Tenth Matter of The Fruits of Belief, the first nine of which had been written in Denizli Prison. "An extremely powerful reply to objections raised about repetitions in the Qur'an", he wrote that he reckoned he had been inspired to write it because of "dissemblers, who, like silly children trying to extinguish the sun of the Qur'an by blowing at it", were attempting to have the Qur'an translated in order to discredit it, having "taken lessons" from "a most dreadful and obdurate atheist". [^273] Bediuzzaman wrote also in the above-mentioned letter that he was sending them this Tenth Matter.

[^272]:Nursi, Emirdağ Lahikası (handwritten original), 6.

[^273]:Nursi, Şualar, 204, 213 (Eng. tr.: Rays, 262, 272).

When writing to his students in Isparta at the end of March the following year, Bediuzzaman told them that he was sending them "a further part of 'The Fruit' about the Angels," This was the Eleventh and final part of