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Firstly: "Who say when afflicted with calamity: To God we belong, and to Him is our return" (Q 2:156). The death of Hasan Feyzi, [^68] who had assumed the late Hâfız Ali's position and was one of the Risale-i Nur heroes, is a great loss for Denizli, for the fold of the Risale-i Nur, for this country, and for the world of Islam. But with his truly sincere, genuine, unique lessons and instruction, he prepared the ground for the raising of numerous Hasan Feyzi's in his place, God willing, then he departed. He performed in two years ten years of valuable services for the Risale-i Nur, just as my nephew Abdurrahman did. They performed the tasks of ten years in one or two as though both knew that they would soon depart from this world. I congratulate Hasan Feyzi's person on his death, and offer earnest condolences to Denizli, the Nur students, and this country; it is a great calamity to lose a true believer, erudite scholar, elevated littérateur, teacher, eloquent preacher, and educator of this sort whose profound knowledge embraced matters of this world and the next. God willing, He will produce many people from the heroes' hearth of Denizli with the spirit of Hasan Feyzi who will espouse the Risale-i Nur and publish it. Just as one seed enters the earth and dies then a hundred shoots emerge from it; so we nourish hopes from divine mercy that Hasan Feyzi will produce many such shoots and many Hasan Feyzis will appear within the fold of the Risale-i Nur and carry out his duties to an even greater degree.

[^68]:Hasan Feyzi died on 13 November 1946. [Tr.]

Secondly: Each one of us should assign to that heroic brother's book of good deeds his spiritual gains as though he were still alive, to him personally just as we do to all of us generally. I have decided to bestow my spiritual gains on him as the fifth member after Hâfız Ali, Hâfız Mehmed, Ahmed of Sava, and Mehmed Zühtü, of the elite group of great saints. The pieces he wrote about the Risale-i Nur under the harshest conditions, which have done so much to spread it, are in The Additional Letters; you may add one each of those powerful letters to the end of any collections you deem suitable. Those living pieces are being included in The Staff of Moses and Zülfikar so that they may serve the Risale-i Nur in his place.

Convey my condolences for me to his relatives in the tiny Nur School which is his house, and to his companions and students and the Nur students in the large Nur School of Denizli and its vicinity, and tell them that I have never in all my life been so saddened at a death and so wept as at his.

Also, it has now become clear that my intense anger and mental disturbance which were reflected in the letter I wrote you before, began on the day that heroic brother died. Its effect negated my will. I thought I was