Also, you will be true, beneficial children for your parents. You are innocent and still without sin, so if you study with such a sacred intention, you will be accepted among the innocent Risale-i Nur students and you will receive a share of the prayers of all the students, and be light-scattering, blessed students yourselves.

I congratulate both your teacher, and yourselves, and your parents, and your country. ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers !

Firstly: I congratulate you with all my spirit and life on the past Night of Acquittal. [^91]

[^91]:The Night of Berât or Acquittal (Ar. Barā'a): a holy night, falling on the night between the 14th and 15th of the month of Sha'bān. [Tr.]

Secondly: It is indeed good and useful that Re'fet Bey, a leading commander and publisher of the Risale-i Nur, has gone to Istanbul in connection with its service. A Nurju like himself was anyway needed there. May Almighty God grant him success! Amen!

Thirdly: I have prepared three copies each of Zülfikar and The Staff of Moses, one of each to be sent to the ulema of al-Azhar University, one of each to the religious scholars around the holy grave of the Prophet (UWBP) in Medina, and one of each to the ulema in Damascus. A letter addressing the al-Azhar ulema, which I have sent to you, has been inserted at the beginning of them, God willing, we shall send them to you as quickly as possible.

Fourthly: Because I have been unable to perform them all myself, for two reasons I am in severe need of your spiritual services and your prayers and the assistance of the spiritual gains you have earned in my place.

First Reason: Never before in my life have I experienced the powerlessness and gradually increasing weakness I now feel, Due to the many difficulties, I can recite only deficiently some of the invocations I have always recited, despite the fact that during these blessed days and nights I need to work a hundred times more. And although by reason of my share in your spiritual partnership I should assist in it and should hasten to share in your prayers with "amens" to a far greater degree, my feebleness allows me to help in only the slightest way, The solution for this is for my duties in the work of the Risale-i Nur to be given to you, and for me to rely on your