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My Loyal Brothers and Steadfast Companions in the Service of Belief!

Firstly: God willing, the principal duty in serving the Risale-i Nur will be far more productive than the printing press. It now yields large recompense for the students and powerful services in the cause of belief. Is this work progressing, I wonder, or is it lagging behind in the difficult winter conditions?

As for the second duty, together with the Tenth Word and its appendices, it has to be within the two treatises about miracles and their appendices at the end. Those who finish the first duty, should try to put any other pieces together in one volume, otherwise they should try to get hold of them. For with its present awakening and working for unity, the Islamic world will seek works like the Risale-i Nur, so large collections will certainly be needed to address the broad views of those wider spheres.

Secondly: Your help for me is particularly clear and important in two respects:

First: Your working untiringly in the service of the Risale-i Nur reduces to nothing all the calamities and difficulties I suffer; indeed, it transforms them into joy.

Second Respect: You should know certainly that I now have no doubts that your prayers has been the cause of their severe, torturous oppression being turned into providential, beneficial instances of mercy for me.

In Short: The officials and people being scared of me has saved me from grievous errors, artificiality, and acting insincerely, and from wasting my time, and has shown divine determining's total justice and grace towards me within the human cruelty. By analogy, one sees that an instance of divine mercy underlies whatever befalls me. The harm costing ten kuruş of their preoccupation with me saves the Risale-i Nur ten thousand liras of harm. You shouldn't therefore be anxious about me. In fact, sometimes when wanting to curse them for their provocations and insults, I think of their soon suffering the execution of death and torments of the solitary confinement of the grave and the advantages for me and for our work in consequence of their offensiveness and disrespect, and I leave off cursing them.

Thirdly: Your one or two letters every week are both healing for me and a means of consolation and as a sort of meeting with you and conversation, I await the post longingly.

I send my greetings to each and every one of you and offer prayers.

S a i d   N u r s i ∗∗∗