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Recently, due to my indisposition, I have been reading the Awrād-i Bahā'iyya (Evrad-ı Bahâiye) from the book and not from memory. I never used to read its conclusion, which is the closing passage at the end (ikhtitām) because I did not know it. I said to myself: "Let's read it this time," and I saw that on one page and in six and a half long lines, were the words "nur nur nur (light light light)" nineteen times. I felt certain that like the Gawth al-A'zam, Shah Naqshband had disclosed and observed the Risale-i Nur and its sacred service and that applauding and predicting it, it was alluding to it. So I added only those six lines and the line at the top and the end line to my Bahā'iyya invocations of thirty years, in the hope that those angels should assist in the Risale-i Nur's publication. ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

Firstly: I earnestly share in the sufferings of those struck by the calamity of the Isparta fire, for just as I am a native of Isparta in numerous ways; so with its soil and rocks that blessed town holds great importance in my view, and is like the centre of the Risale-i Nur's al-Azhar university and Medresetü'z-Zehrâ.

Tell those calamity-stricken people from me that according to Hadiths, property belonging to believers that is lost in such calamities is counted as almsgiving. Especially in these times, such transitory property which is a hundredfold almsgiving, is transformed into much more numerous everlasting belongings. So one has to offer thanks in one respect, in patience. God willing, in this world too the Most Merciful of the Merciful will bestow substitutes for those losses, which go as atonement for sins.

Convey my sympathies to them and tell them not to worry for no purpose.

Secondly: One reason for occurrences of this kind: notwithstanding an ugly error, it is incumbent on Isparta, which more than anywhere is the Risale-i Nur's source and school, to protect it and to preserve the respect and value of the month of Ramadan. It is obliged to protect the marks of Islam against vice and dissipation. ∗∗∗