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In His Name, be He glorified!

May God's peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you!

My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

God willing, during these three blessed months abundant sacred wealth will be added to the Nurjus' spiritual partnership. Each of them will win profit as though working with thousands of tongues and hundreds of pens. Fortunate indeed are those working with pens at the Zülfikâr Collection these fruitful months, which may counted as worship in five ways. However, it is absolutely essential that attention is paid to accuracy, rather than just writing, Today I saw two meaningful coincidences and I realized that in return for the difficulties I am suffering these days in correcting The Staff of Moses, divine providence is giving me recompense and rations in pleasing fashion.

One of them: Every day I was eating two or three of the sweets the heroic Tahirî had brought as a courtesy, and extraordinarily they never came to an end. I was astonished. Today, as was my habit, I was going to take two when I saw there were only two left, so economizing I took only one of them. That very hour, in a box beneath the copies Hıfzı's two innocent children had written out were sweets just like Tahirî's made of sugar and bread, and the same amount. While enjoying this sweet coincidence yesterday at the same time, I was very thirsty and was drinking a lot of water. I had a yearning for stewed plums. I did not know and had forgotten that long ago I often used to assuage my thirst with plums. I had an intense desire for some. Then suddenly I was given some in a box together with some sugar from the Nurju Şerife Hanım, a close friend of Âsiye. For the sake of this truly sweet coincidence I accepted a hundred times over both the childrens' gifts and theirs. Thousands of greetings to you all.

S a i d   N u r s i ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal, Unshakeable, Indefatigable, Constant, Steadfast Brothers!

Firstly: I declare to those who say that the struggle for livelihood this summer and the worship performed these three months may cause some slackness in the writing out of the Risale-i Nur: on the contrary, it will encourage the writing and it should do so. For serving the Risale-i Nur