I have received the joint letter of the Nur heroes Hilmi Bey and Emin in Kastamonu and signed by Hâfız İhsan. I send with much longing, greetings to those valuable, steadfast, unshakeable old brothers and the other Nur students there. Also, where is İhsan who was together with us in prison and assisted us so much there? I am curious.

Thanks to the wondrous loyalty and devotion of such people in the vicinity of Safranbolu as the Mustafas, Ahmed Fuad, the late Hıfzı, and Rahmi, our eight years of service for the Risale-i Nur in Kastamonu did not remain fruitless; they prove materially that there will be a shining Nur School in Safranbolu. I consider to be most significant the good news given in Mustafa Osman's latest letter that the Risale-i Nur will make many conquests among the hundreds of young people and workers in the manufacturing town of Karabük.

It is truly most auspicious what the two young Nur heroes, Mustafa Sungur and Rahmi, tell in their fine letter of Ahmed Fuad's earnest efforts to teach the Risale-i Nur in their villages, and the district of Eflâni coming to resemble a Nur School like Barla, with its people attending the lessons enthusiastically; and two young teachers embracing the Risale-i Nur still in the old script; and the children starting to learn the Qur'anic script, and starting to write out the Risale-i Nur. May Almighty God grant success to those innocent children and may He be pleased with their teachers and parents. They are included among the children mentioned in my prayers. We congratulate the district of Eflâni, and foremost Ahmed Fuad, Mustafa, and Rahmi.

Mustafa Sungur, one the young Nur heroes, has written out the conclusion of the Eleventh Topic of The Fruits of Belief perfectly in a short space of time in the old letters, and Rahmi, the other, has written out beautifully A Guide for Youth in the old letters, and sent these to me together with my books that arrived from Kastamonu. In truth, this pleased me so much, it was as though two new nephews resembling Abdurrahman and Fuad had come into the world. ∗∗∗

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An immigrant in Balıkesir and follower of Jalal al-Dīn al-Rumi called Edhem Hoja has for nearly twenty years been busy teaching the Qur'an to children and acting as a village hoja, and now works for the Risale-i Nur in Balıkesir and the vicinity of Kırkağaç. The lengthy letter he has written in the name of the Nur students in that area and signed İbrahim Edhem, Imam of the village of Alamescid near Sandıklı, contains some important pas-