published. Actually, although I have not seen the symbolic treatise about the inner meaning of "To thee have We granted" (Q 108: 1) for thirteen years, it would be both somewhat contrary to the rule of caution to send it here, and not everyone would understand it, for it has to be interpreted (te'vil) and expounded (tefsir). I wrote in one letter in The Additional Letters that two truths had been imparted to me briefly:

One of them: A light was shown in a somewhat restricted area; I understood this as meaning an extensive sphere and gave the good news forty years ago that we would behold a light. Even before the Second Consitutional Period, I repeatedly gave that news to my old students. I supposed it would be in the broad sphere of politics, whereas it was subsequently imparted to me that we would see the Risale-i Nur in the sphere of belief and Islam and the life of Islamic society, for which this country had greatest need. With a premonition, I insistently and repeatedly told of it, and altered that true and veracious matter's form.

The second: It was imparted to me that those who were dealing blows at the marks of Islam and Islamic politics would themselves receive severe blows in twelve, thirteen, fourteen, and sixteen years. Contrarily to the previous matter, I interpreted the events that would occur in the broad sphere and the blows that would be dealt on those large communities as happening in the form of blows dealt at individuals in the narrow sphere. But then exactly as predicted, in both spheres, broad and narrow, twelve years later the most terrible of them quitted this world, and in the broad sphere fearsome communities like his received blows in the years twelve, thirteen, fourteen, and sixteen, and it was imparted to me that they would continue to do so. With my previous interpretation, I applied the large sphere to the small, then with 'the light' question above, I interpreted the small sphere and the event of the Risale-i Nur and its pertaining solely to belief as occurring in the extensive sphere of politics. For this reason, not everyone would understand at once the meaning of "To thee have We granted." Also, since personal names should not be included in scholarly questions, it is quite apt that for thirteen years I have had no copies of that treatise. Nor should my brothers be curious about it. If anyone is really curious about it, he should read the section that begins with "And for now secondly" at the beginning of "To thee have We granted," and the piece about the same matter in The Additional Letters. Otherwise he should not read it. The end of the Second World War and departure of that fearsome person, and now with his policies falling back and contrarily to them, some people officially making moves in favour of religion, and the believers being saved to a degree from absolute depotism, and with slight differences the