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The Nur medrese hero of long standing, and most loyal, most capable, and most steadfast Marangoz Ahmed describes in his beautiful, sad letter about the death of Haji Hâfız, the school's master, the pious attitude of the school's students towards their master, and how the rain stopped so as not to cause them trouble or wet them or cause them to catch cold, and then started again when they had finished and how this was a sign that vast mercy had been sent down on the late departed's spirit. May Almighty God bestow mercy on him and on them to the number of those rain droplets. Amen ! ∗∗∗

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Sadık Bey has performed extraordinary services for the Risale-i Nur for eight years together with his son and late wife, and has worked loyally with his pen, bringing numerous people into its fold like the other heroes in prison. Now Hilmi Bey, known as the Little Shaykh, who has done so much for Sadık Bey, and to make my life easier, and for co-operation among the Nur students, and together with such select Kastamonu students as Feyzi, Emin, İhsan, and the Ahmeds, has performed many services for the Risale-i Nur, has told me in his letter of his wife's death, who was a Nurju. Thanks to the departed, for the last month or two while mentioning the Zehrâs in my prayers, I have also mentioned the Hacers, intending also the departed although I did not know of her death. May God Almighty grant her abundant mercy and bestow patience on her relatives. Amen. ∗∗∗

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While doing the corrections recently, I suddenly felt violently angry, not at the hojas who are within the fold of the Risale-i Nur and work at it, and the Konya hojas, but at the others. For there are devoted Nur students who do not know Arabic and they make numerous mistakes and errors. This causes me great trouble, so I shouted at the hojas who used to be my students and my brother and the official hojas who are now in Istanbul and Ankara, saying: "You mean-spirited people! Why don't you help me, although it is your duty and the Risale-i Nur is a product of the medreses, and it is obligatory for you to serve belief, which is so necessary? Your indifference may cause many to withdraw from it. You are earning a share of the slap Imam 'Ali (May God be pleased with him) dealt at a group of hojas at the end of time." While berating them thus, three things suddenly occurred to me in defence of those hojas whose hearts are uncorrupted.