the Risale-i Nur as the Defence Speeches of Eskişehir Prison, which are a sort of biography of the period the Risale-i Nur was emerging and were made the Twenty-Seventh Flash, and the defences of Denizli Prison, which are the Eleventh and Twelfth Rays, together with The Treatise for the Elderly (the Twenty-Sixth Flash), The Fourth Ray, The Sixteenth Letter, The Six Attacks, and The Three Indications (İşarât-ı Selâse—the Twenty-Second Flash), and The Seven Signs (İşârât-ı Seb'a—The Seventh Part of the Twenty-Eighth Letter). I do not now have them with me, although the court returned them to me, but I shall have. God willing, I shall never forget you. Your concern for me in this plight has alleviated my severe difficulties. May God be pleased with you, Amen! ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

An unfortunate sensitive man who suffers from scruples and has relations with the irreligious saw a Hadith about the famous supplication of the Prophet (UWBP), the Jaushan al-Kabir, and its inordinate merits and value, and he fell into doubt. He said: "It's narrated from the Imams of the Prophet's (UWBP) family, but it appears to be greatly exaggerated. For instance, it says that the supplication yields as many rewards as the Qur'an, and the great angels in the skies descend from the divine throne when they see someone reading it and bow before him in all humility. But this is contrary to reason and logic." He sought assistance from the Risale-i Nur. So I gave him an answer from the Qur'an, the Jaushan, and the Risale-i Nur that was completely certain and in accord with reason and wisdom. Here, I am writing an abbreviated summary of it. It was like this. I said to him:

Firstly: The Third Branch of the Twenty-Fourth Word sets out ten principles which demolish such doubts and dispel them. Take a look at it and find the answer.

Secondly: Muhammad (Zât-i Ahmediye) (Upon whom be blessings and peace), who every day receives the merits of the good deeds of all his community and assists in the happiness of each of its members, and who manifested the greatest name, was the original seed of the cosmos and its most perfect and comprehensive fruit. He saw the supreme degree of that supplication referring to himself and heard it from the Angel Gabriel (Upon whom be peace), who informed him of it, and compared others to himself or was compared. That is to say, that extraordinary merit accrued to the supplication from the supreme sainthood of Muhammad (Zât-i Ahmediye)