and millions of liras of non-material harm. And a collective personality close to our hearts and spirits, shouted out to our unhappy selves: O Nurjus! Don't be saddened at the present lack of material means! The Risale-i Nur's conquests continue over a wide field and general victories are being won! And so and so forth.

This is from the grace of my Lord! ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers !

A strange and meaningful event related to the Risale-i Nur students and the wonder-working of The Supreme Sign and the worldly's intention to molest the Risale-i Nur: a fire in one of the local government offices opposite me burned for three hours at the very coldest time of the night with an extraordinary brilliance I had never before seen. Immediately next to it were the large shops belonging to two brothers, and to one of the Çalışkans who is a Risale-i Nur student, which held the greater part of young Ceylan's capital. There were only two small shops between their shops and the fire. The fire was spreading in all its fury towards their shops when the unfortunate Ceylan came to me crying: "Our shops are on fire, we're finished!" Two days earlier I had told him to bring me some of the printed copies of The Supreme Sign which were in the shop, but he had not brought them. That is to say, they remained there in order to extinguish the fire. For my part, taking the Risale-i Nur and The Supreme Sign as intercessors, I exclaimed: "O my Lord! Save them!" In three hours that raging fire destroyed the large local government office and completely burnt out the shops that were under it and adjacent to it. But through the protection of the Risale-i Nur and Supreme Sign, the fire did not touch their shop at all, and the shop under it belonging to the student also remained intact. Only, the people broke its windows. There would have been no damage if they had not done so, to remove the goods.

Thus, there were instances of the Risale-i Nur's wonder-working, both when the Isparta carpet shop caught fire and the two houses of the two brothers of the person who assigned their villa for readings of the Risale-i Nur were saved from the conflagration although they were right next to it; and in Kastamonu, just like in Emirdağ, the house of the Nur student Hâfız Ahmed was saved in extraordinary fashion from the fire opposite me that broke out in the house adjacent to him, and both the life and the jewelry of his sister on the third floor were saved through the blessings of the Risale-i