means one Said has died every year, so that he will live to this date. [Bediuzzaman died in 1379 according to the Hijri calendar, and his grave was demolished and moved in 1380.]

∗∗∗ With a premonition of the future, he perceived its present state, twenty years later. [^137]

[^137]:Ibid., 466-7; Nursi, Sözler, 647 (Eng. tr.: Words, 727).