sages as well as some slaps for the cowardly hojas, whom he invites and encourages to embrace the Risale-i Nur. I congratulate him earnestly. May Almighty God grant him success! And I send my greetings to both to himself and to the many Nurjus and the new ones whose names are mentioned in his letter. But owing to my illness, I am unable to correct and moderate his long letter. The excessive praise of me needs to be either excised or to be altered. I am sending you a copy to include among The Additional Letters. God willing, just as Hasan Feyzi and Ahmed Feyzi drew the teachers to the Risale-i Nur, so this enterprising brother will attract the hojas.

I also send my greetings to the baker Mustafa, who from time to time assisted me together with his son while I was staying in the hotel in Denizli, and brought me and embers for heating and bread, and sent me a letter via Tahir Çavuş.

I send many greetings to everyone and pray for their well-being. ∗∗∗

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[An answer that occurred to me in connection with a question asked both verbally and tacitly.]

My Dear, Loyal Brothers !

It is asked: Why don't you accept for yourself the powerful good opinions of the Nur students and their certain convictions concerning your self, or a rank or position that would further encourage them to serve the Risale-i Nur? Why do you ascribe all these to the Risale-i Nur and show yourself to be a faulty servant?

The Answer: Endless thanks and praise be to Almighty God that the Risale-i Nur contains supports so powerful and unassailable and proofs so brilliant and incisive that no need remains for the qualities or abilities imagined in my person. It does not look to its author's abilities and receive its power and acceptability from them, as with other works. It is clear for all to see; for twenty years, by virtue of its decisive proofs, it has forced the enemies of my person, both physical and non-physical, to submit. If it had relied on my personality to any great extent, my irreligious enemies and cruel opponents could have dealt serious blows at it by discrediting my person. In their lunacy, they still tried to discredit me with every sort of stratagem and to destroy public regard for me, but they have been unable to halt the Risale-i Nur's conquests or to diminish its value. Even if they confuse a few, new, weak adherents, they cannot make them give it up.