both augments through its blessings means of support and peace of heart, and since it is worship in the form of reflective thought, it augments the rewards of the blessed months.

Secondly: One of the Nur students said to me: "You said last year before the copies of the Risale-i Nur had been handed over to us and as a result of some copies being returned privately — through which divine mercy had showed itself to a degree, that if and when the Risale-i Nur is read and written completely freely and it is returned to us, divine mercy will be manifested fully with the coming of rain. Thus, I feel quite certain that the unprecedented mercy this spring is a consequence of The Staff of Moses now being written out and read everywhere in earnest, and Zülfikar too is being copied enthusiastically. ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

Firstly: Heroic Rüştü, who with Husrev is one spirit in two bodies and together with his courageous brother holds a key position in the service of the Risale-i Nur, is trying to get hold of a remarkable machine for that service, which marks the commencement of new conquests for the Risale-i Nur. God willing, it will continue to be printed and published by Nurjus with worthy hands like pens, without needing strangers and the unworthy. But before everything, it should be written for the duplicating machine correctly and without errors, if possible firstly [by hand] in the old letters, and later [on the typewriter] in the new ones. That would be best. I leave it to your discretion and good judgement.

Secondly: I have seen the letter Konyalı Sabri wrote Re'fet and I understood from it that like the other Sabri this Sabri is a truly sincere, devoted, and hardworking Nurju. May God's blessings be upon him and upon the religious scholars of Konya who have encouraged and motivated him and have vindicated the hojas. I send many greetings to them and foremost the esteemed exegetist Hoja Vehbi and to the Nur students there, and I request their prayers these blessed Three Months.

The Enduring One, He is the Enduring One!

S a i d   N u r s i ∗∗∗