the governor of Ankara who had harassed me because of the hat question, had committed suicide and punished himself with his own hand, and that there were no assaults on the work on Zülfikar and it was continuing; and the news that the heroes of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ were persisting with Zülfikar without getting agitated and describing the reality of the situation; and the letters of congratulation of Tahirî and Abdullah, the heroes of Ata-bey, with which I am closely concerned, and heirs of Lütfi and deputies and heirs of the late Hâfız Ali and his capable companions in the service of the Risale-i Nur; and in the face of this latest assault, the meaningful, correct replies of the Ali Köyü Imam, Hâfız Ali, to the government's questions in a way that was most courageous and befitted a Nur student. I exclaimed: "See! The hoopoe's good news was right!"

Just as The Staff of Moses saves from misguidance those submerged in nature and is a necessary antidote for everyone at this time, especially those fallen into doubt and denial; so too, Zülfikar is essential for the believers and scholars, and particularly for the hâfizes (memorizers) of the Qur'an. All hafizes have great need for this collection at the present time; it explains forty aspects of the Qur'an's miraculousness (i'jaz) and every one of them should have a copy.

At no time in history has there been a work like the Risale-i Nur that has received so little and so light criticism from those who attack the many schools and ways. Indeed, in return for their hundredfold sacred service and striving with a hundredfold less trouble, its students have suffered a mere one or two terms of imprisonment and two or three calamities which were providential and victorious, unimportant, temporary, and in respect of their results, beneficial.

I send everyone many greetings and pray for their success. ∗∗∗

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I am forming the opinion that this wondrous machine being given to us so easily just when we were obliged to duplicate large numbers of Zülfikar and The Staff of Moses, and the unprincipled printers too were holding back, is a sign of those two collections' acceptability, and a wondrous bestowal of divine providence and a wonder of the Risale-i Nur.

Yes, just at the time I was officially ill-treated and abused eight times and they were asking: "Who wrote this?" about one commonplace letter of mine, the machine was producing out of eight hundred pages, one thousand five hundred copies and a million pages. It is most certainly a Nurju and scribe of a thousand pens who has come to our assistance from the World