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My Very Dear, Most Loyal and True Brothers, and Trusty, Sincere Heirs in respect of the Risale-i Nur!

I received an admonishment to disclose a most meaningful and powerful coincidence, an indication of the students' loyalty and explicit wonder of the Risale-i Nur. It is this: at just the same time that I wrote my will, covert dissemblers found an opportunity when my assistants whom I trust were prevented by the police from coming to me, and by means of a person I did not know gave me some poison that was more powerful than that given me nine times previously.

Also, at the same time the Tunisian scholar, Hoja Haşmet, who is one of our brothers and last year came this far to visit me but left without seeing me, wrote to here from Yozgat saying: "Said has died. The one hundred and thirty treatises of the Risale-i Nur should be kept so that we can print them in the future."

Also, at the same time, Halil İbrahim's sad eulogy-like letter about my death made the students weep.

Also, very close to that time, in one or two letters about my death, Husrev, in unaccustomed manner alluded to my death with such phrases as "a lifetime of two or three days," and saddened me. Alarmed, I wondered if I was going to depart.

Also, around that time, while dwelling mostly on my duty in this worldly life and worrying whether the students would perform it in my place at this ghastly time, Denizli, Milâs, Isparta, and İnebolu, and the teacher, scholars, and others raced to that duty with such fervour and partiality in a way far exceeding my hopes, that I was left in amazement.

In Short: This fivefold coincidence was a clear wonder of the Risale-i Nur.

Praise be God! This is from the grace of my Lord.

My brothers! Don't be alarmed, the Jaushan and Evrad-ı Bahâiye have again overcome and dispelled the dangers of that terrible poison. The danger has passed, but the illness continues.

I send greetings to each and every one of my brothers and pray for their well-being, and request their doubtlessly acceptable prayers. And with all my life and spirit I congratulate the many women and children in İnebolu and its environs who are starting to write out the Risale-i Nur and the many innocents taking lessons about the Qur'an.

The Enduring One, He is the Enduring One!

Your brother who is much need of your prayers,

S a i d   N u r s i ∗∗∗