I congratulate with all my life and spirit our brother the heroic Nazif, and the truly earnest, constant, and fully committed Nurjus of İnebolu, and Ahmed Kureysi and his companions, on both the festival, and their continuing service, and their elevated loyalty, and their successes and the printing of Zülfikar, and Salâhaddin's efforts in establishing relations between the Medresetü' z-Zehrâ and al-Azhar University. May Almighty God grant them every success and make their service entirely acceptable. Amen. ∗∗∗

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The two copies sent to the ulema of al-Azhar University had not been corrected by me and there are bound to be errors in some of the Arabic words and their vowel points. I saw numerous grammatical mistakes in other copies, particularly in the writing of the Arabic Khulāṣat al-Khulāṣa at the end. So when you deem fit, send a copy each of The Staff of Moses and Zülfikar [^67] to al-Azhar that have been examined closely by Arabic teachers, and write them a letter saying that the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ of the Risale-i Nur is an offspring, a pupil, of al-Azhar University which is in much need of its kindness; it is a student of it which is the target of fierce enemies' assaults; it is a small department and branch of the great al-Azhar University, which is the head of all medreses and perpetually illuminates the world of Islam. So we await the assistance of that high-standing master, that kindly father and zealous supreme guide, for its wretched sons and students. As for the two books that have been presented to that grand master, like a school boy shows to his father and teacher in the evening the lessons he has learnt that day, we offer our two lessons to the gaze of those benevolent and compassionate scholars of great learning.

[^67]:I can send you a Staff of Moses and Zülfikar that I have here and have been gone through and corrected deficiently by myself. If you wish, you may send your own copies to Egypt after having comparing them closely with these. [Author]

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I have received a letter from one of our leading students, Muharrem, in Denizli, which is a foremost centre of the Risale-i Nur, for which it has performed much work in a short time, and with which I am closely concerned. Together with conveying congratulations for the festival in the name of the Husrev of Denizli and his most earnest and loyal companions, especially the just judge, and Muharrem, Hâfız Mustafa and the rest, the