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has found the teacher Ahmed Fuad and Mustafa Oruç in the university; he will get much work done for the Risale-i Nur with those two wings, God willing. Now that people like Mustafa Oruç and the teacher Ahmed Fuad have started to serve the Risale-i Nur so effectively, it lessens a little the pain of Hasan Feyzi's death, who was the Denizli hero. Then the facts that Küçük İbrahim is a second Salâhaddin and is working earnestly for the Risale-i Nur with the duplicating machine together with his family, brother, and wife; and Salih, Gülcü Hüseyin, Osman, Zühtü, İzzet, Ömer and the other Nurjus there who are named in the letter are all progressing in their service steadfastly and unshakeably pleased us immeasurably, and showed too that in the future they will make the country grateful to them. As God wills, they have proved that İnebolu is a small Isparta and in every respect a Nur School.

Secondly: We have already sent some collections in the old letters to Mustafa Oruç, a very industrious university-student Nurju who has the abilities of an Abdurrahman and a Salâhaddin and is related to the village of Nurs, my name of Nursi, and the Risale-i Nur. At his request we have sent eight or nine pieces in the new letters since he says that the university students have much need of them and are eager for them. But as a young student, he is inexperienced and not capable of safeguarding the Risale-i Nur, so in order that it should be given to suitable people and not remain unused, any Nur students who are near Istanbul or who visit there or who live there should help him with spreading its treatises and safeguarding it.

Thirdly: The Denizli hero Hasan Feyzi's (Mercy be upon him) going to join the Isparta hero Hâfız Ali (Mercy be upon him) certainly saddens us terribly, but as his select student, the loyal Nur student Muharrem, said, and I too say: In one respect he has not died; he completed his duty hastily, and was released and departed to rest in the Intermediate Realm. Together, he and Hâfız Ali are assisting with their intercession and the powerful works connected with the Risale-i Nur they left behind; they are still working at the Risale-i Nur. Since they are surely martyrs of a sort, we hope and seek from divine mercy that like the medrese student in the Eleventh Topic of The Fruits of Belief who thought he was still busy with his Arabic grammar lessons, the two are busy discussing the truths of the Risale-i Nur within the circle of the Nurjus who have died. God willing, He will raise up many Hasan Feyzis to carry on his duties in this world. [^71]

[^71]:Until a new hero is found who, chosen and appointed through consultation by the Nur students, will undertake all the many duties of our deceased brother related to the Risale-i Nur, each student should take on one of them in the form of the division of labour. Demirbaş Ali Osman! This duty has been given to you in Isparta. Consulting with the other brothers there, someone who is very involved with the Risale-i Nur should assume for now the position of the Denizli Husrev so that his place does not remain unoccupied. He should look after the skull cap I gave him until the person for whom it is destined turns up. [Author]

4–6 October 2026 · Istanbul

13th International Bediuzzaman Symposium

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