acquainted with the state of the world and don't know the usefulness of the Risale-i Nur in the face of it, do they?

The Answer: At the divine command and with divine permission and through dominical power and strength, all animals have a shepherd or supervisor from among the angels, as do the birds. Even if they are not aware of it, at the divine command and through dominical inspiration, their shepherd drives them on. That natural impulse results from the inspiration that comes to the birds; they manifest the inspiration. A day-old bee flies a day's distance in the air through that natural inspiration; through that dominical impulse it returns to its hive without losing its way.

Indeed, just as the globe of the earth objected to the oppression visited on the Risale-i Nur and its students, and the atmosphere responded with lack of rain and cold to its confiscation, and the clouds applauded with rain on its being returned; so too, the birds may well take interest.

For sure, in the face of the crimes of men which destroy a village and kill a thousand people with the egg of a bomb laid by artificial birds, and those destructive human birds which lay those hellish eggs, and the tyrannous, cruel ruination of the globe and of humankind, those animate birds will applaud the Risale-i Nur, which illuminates the future so effectively. It is these very subtle points that those letters contain. ∗∗∗

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My Brothers !

I was truly gratified by the letter written by the keeper of the Risale-i Nur power station, who knows fully the worth of The Fruits of Belief (Meyve Risalesi) and has earned the name of Fruit Seller. For, like Hulûsi and Hakkı, the sincere friendship and brotherhood between them have been constant and continuous for close on twenty years; and their attachment to the Risale-i Nur and connection with it and loyalty towards it also persist, and like the sincere relations between them, become firmer and are not shaken by events. I offer thanks to Almighty God that He has bestowed on the Risale-i Nur such loyal and utterly sincere students who are good examples for others and offer thanks in patience (Sabri) in their service of the Risale-i Nur, ever sincere (Hulûsi) in right (Hakkı). My brothers in the vicinity of the Fruit Seller, and especially the loyal people of Barla whose names I can't say but are known, very often draw me in the imagination to the past and that region and take me around Barla and its mountains. I very often think of them and those places and I can't forget them.

I send them countless greetings.