That evening when he returned to his family, Ömer Pasha was met by his disconsolate daughter who immediately complained to her father: "That Said you have given the room to is mad. He just tells us off and never leaves it." Feeling remorse for his suspicions, Ömer Pasha went straight to Molla Said's room and treated him with great courtesy and kindness.

In a later work, Bediuzzaman explained his attitude as follows:

When I was twenty or so, I stayed for two years in the residence of the governor of Bitlis, Ömer Pasha, on his insistence and because of his extreme respect for learning. He had six daughters. Three of them were small, and three of them were older. Although I stayed in the same house as them for two years, I could not tell the three older ones apart. I paid them so little attention, how could I have done? Another scholar came and stayed together with me as a guest, and within two days he knew them and could tell them one from the other. They were all perplexed at my attitude, and asked me: "Why do you not look at them?" I replied: "Preserving the dignity of learning does not allow me to look at them." [^52]

[^52]:Şahiner, Said Nursi, 52-3; Nursi, Emirdağ Lahikası, i, 257.

The last time Molla Said received a lesson and was taught by anyone was while he was in Bitlis, from one of its leading shaykhs, Shaykh Muhammad Kufrawi (d. 1313/1895-6). Then one night following this, he dreamt of the Shaykh, who said to him in his dream: "Molla Said, come and visit me. I am leaving." So Said immediately went to him, and when he saw that the Shaykh had already gone, he awoke. He looked at his watch; it was one o'clock in the morning. He went back to sleep again. When in the morning he heard the sound of mourning and weeping coming from the direction of the Shaykh's house, he hurried there to find that the Shaykh had died at one o'clock the night before. Uttering a prayer for him, Said returned home sadly.

Molla Said had tremendous love for the great Naqshbandi Khalidi shaykhs of eastern Anatolia, such as Sayyid Nur Muhammad, Shaykh 'Abdurrahman Taği, Shaykh Fehim and Shaykh Muhammad Kufrawi, from each of whom he had received lessons and instruction in different aspects of the spiritual life. And so also did he greatly love the leading 'ulema such as Shaykh Emin Efendi, Molla Fethullah, and Shaykh Fethullah Efendi, who had taught him. [^53]

[^53]:Tarihçe, 44