spiritual assistance for the performance of my duties in that partnership. I beseech divine mercy that my work may be commensurate with your good will towards me and your favourable opinion of this weak brother of yours, which far exceeds his due and abilities.

The Second Reason for the need: Both yourselves and some other persons suppose the extraordinary results that have appeared from the Risale-i Nur's truths and its students' collective personality to have emerged from this wretched brother of yours, although enormous power and endurance would be necessary, My very minor and personal efforts and my illness and weakness, therefore, render me severely needy for your help and assistance. So in order to induce your spiritual assistance to hasten to me, I intend you when I recite such phrases as "Save us! Have mercy on us!" which are in the first person plural, as if I am working together with all of you. And when I say "Amen," I intend an "amen" to all of your prayers. God willing, in His mercy, the Most Merciful of the Merciful accepts my extremely deficient and minor work as a perfect "amen" to your vast works.

Fifthly: I was very anxious about your situation after the former incident. Then, thanks be to God, your letter said that the hero Tahirî had gone to Istanbul to get the duplicating machine and paper, which shows that the trouble has abated and will not prevent the Risale-i Nur's publication, on the contrary, there as in other places, it is making triumphant conquests, God willing. ∗∗∗

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The most excellent peace and blessings

be upon the one resting in that tomb!

The Staff of Moses and Zülfikar have been presented to the esteemed ulema residing in the vicinity of the Immaculate Tomb of the Prophet (UWBP). They were sent to visit those blessed sites in place of their author, to be a means whereby intercession and well-wishing prayers in that sacred place may be received. These lines were written only for the Muslim communities of al-Azhar, Damascus, and India, from those who had visited the Immaculate Tomb from al-Azhar, Damascus, and India. We wrote this at the head of four copies of Zülfikar and The Staff of Moses, and sent two copies to al-Azhar University in Cairo, one to the ulema of Damascus, and one to the committee from India which has requested copies of the Qur'an to the value of two million liras. ∗∗∗