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Our Respected, Blessed, Esteemed, Kind, and Virtuous Master!

Firstly: "And in the face of every calamity: We belong to God and to Him is our return" (Q 2:156). The death of our elder brother and his departing to join the Risale-i Nur champion and late martyr Hâfız Ali saddened us grievously. I send my condolences to foremost you our Master and to all the Nur students, all the members of his spiritual and actual family, his Nur School, and the people of Denizli, and I share in their sorrow. While offering my paltry gifts at the divine court, I beseech that he may be engulfed in mercy and blessings. And I entreat from divine mercy that in accordance with the verse: "Every soul will taste death" (Q 3: 185), he has been taken from this world to the world of spirits, and as indicated by "But those who believe and do deeds of righteousness — to them We give a home in heaven lofty mansions beneath which flow rivers, — to dwell therein for aye, — an excellent reward for those who do [good]!" (Q 29:58) as recompense He shall bestow the shoots of numerous Hasan Feyzis.

Esteemed Master! According to what I have heard, one day seventy to eighty years ago in Denizli, a lofty saint called Hasan Feyzi told his students: "Today a saint was born in Kurdistan," alluding with this good news to yourself. I consider that your coming to Denizli so many years later made that saint's spirit rejoice. Then a short time later the late Hasan Feyzi, who bore the same name, emulated the first Hasan Feyzi in his respect for the Risale-i Nur and his passion for it, and entering its fold, strengthened this conviction of mine immeasurably. I thought: Said appeared and attained the fullness of years after the first Hasan Feyzi's death, and the second Hasan Feyzi also fulfilled his duties, and immersed in the Risale-i Nur he summoned many Hasan Feyzi's to replace him, then departed this life. I implore and entreat the Most Merciful of the Merciful that He bestow numerous Hasan Feyzis on the Risale-i Nur and on our Master who will cause them to forget their grief, and I hope from His abundant grace, mercy, providence, bestowal, bounty, and favour that He will grant our Master a long and felicitous life at their head,

Your sinful, impotent, and faulty student,

Halil İbrahim

(May God have mercy on him and on Hasan Feyzi) ∗∗∗