the great mujahid heroes of early Islam. The future will most certainly applaud them and the Nurjus.

Secondly: It is appropriate that the passage at the beginning of The Staff of Moses Collection which is underlined, be written out. Anyone who wishes may write it together with the beginning part of this letter.

The Twenty-Eighth Flash and Eighth Ray have proved satisfactorily that in his ode, Jaljalutiyya, Imam 'Ali (May God be pleased with him) foretells powerfully and almost explicitly with the same number the Risale-i Nur and its main treatises, In Jaljalutiyya, with the line: "And with the name of Moses' staff, the darkness is dispelled," he gives news of its final treatise.

A couple of years ago, we supposed that The Supreme Sign was its final treatise, whereas now, the writing of the Risale-i Nur being completed in [thirteen] sixty-four [^53] and the above lines of Imam 'Ali giving news of a treatise that would dispel the darkness and scatter light like the staff of Moses, breaking their spells; and both The Fruits section of this collection being a sort of court defence and scattering the dark injustice that descended upon us, and The Proofs section dispelling the darkness of the philosophy that formed a front against the Risale-i Nur and compelling the Ankara experts' committee to submit and appreciate it; and its containing numerous indications that it would disperse darknesses in the future; and like the staff of Moses (Upon whom be peace) caused twelve springs to flow from the rock, this collection with its Fruits and their eleven luminous topics and its Conclusive Proof of God and its eleven decisive proofs, all afforded us the conviction that with those lines, Imam 'Ali (May God be pleased with him) was looking directly to the collection called The Staff of Moses and was giving news of it appreciatively.

[^53]:See , fn 25 above. [Tr.]

Thirdly: Sabri, who is the Nur Power Station and some of whose pieces are included in the Twenty-Seventh Letter, has sent another eulogy. We have added it to The Additional Letters, and have also sent it to you. And Hâfız Mustafa — who is one of the blessed people and has performed many services in spreading the Risale-i Nur — his blessed, innocent grandson wrote out the Sixth Ray when seven years old and wrote me a letter, which will awaken an interest in the Risale-i Nur among the innocents here. He should be called Said Nurî; the name Nursî, referring to the village, is meaningless. The 's' should be left out and just the 'î' remain, to show his attachment to the Risale-i Nur. I was going to write many other things, but I've been obliged to cut it short due to the many duties and jobs I have to do.

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