pertaining to the Risale-i Nur. For my part, I accepted the gifts of those innocents and returned them to those young Saids as gifts for them to work in my place. May God Almighty grant them success! According to what they have written, they are İbrahim, nine years old; Mustafa, eleven; Halil İbrahim, twelve; Emin Yılmaz, fourteen; Mehmed, eleven; and Abdullah, twelve years old.

Hâfız Mehmed, who is one of the heroes of the Nur School and its blessed master, and is the son and heir of the late Haji Hâfız, wrote in the letter he sent in the name of all the medrese's students, that working with the Risale-i Nur is the remedy for all calamities and illnesses other than death, and that even death it shows to be the door to Paradise, making the believers look to it eagerly and joyfully. Numerous incidents have demonstrated the truth of this. Moreover, his innocent child has begun to memorize the Qur'an. God willing he will be successful and perpetuate the blessed title of his father and grandfather.

Mustafa Yıldız, one of the diamond-penned champions of the Nur School, wrote in his letter which was short in length but long and valuable in meaning, that having been referred to the heroes of the Nur medrese, The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen was as though applauded by three or four hoopoes on being written out on waxed paper. This shows, God willing, that The Ratifying Stamp will emerge shining from the Nur School and win some fine victories.

The short invocation (münâcât) heroic Tahirî has sent is correct, but only the first part has been translated, and my circumstances at the moment do not permit the translation to be completed. This brief invocation shows that selfish egotism and the desire for life were not dominant when the Risale-i Nur was being composed, and they did not mar its purity and sincerity. During the Great War, I was perpetually ready to fall as a martyr, owing to which the Qur'anic commentary Ishārāt al-I'jāz (Signs of Miraculousness) was written with complete sincerity. Similarly, a powerful manifestation in this invocation of the readiness for death (rabita-ı mevt) has been the means of the Risale-i Nur acquiring a pure sincerity. God willing, no selfish emotions interefered in it.

Two of the prominent young students from Barla, which is the first Nur School and with which I am closely connected in spirit, came here — an Ahmed and Mehmed just like the Ahmed and Mehmed who came to visit me from Denizli. They were Ahmed, who came on behalf of his father, the late Mustafa Cavil}, and the barber Mehmed, who came in place of his father-in-law, the late Muhâjir Hâfız Ahmed, with whom together with Mustafa Çavuş I was formerly most closely involved and who served me