Secondly: The letters sent by Nihad and Abdurrahman show that Kastamonu's Husrev, Mehmed Fevzi, is working at the Risale-i Nur unshakeably and with complete eagerness, and is getting others to work at it and to read it, and other people who have come here from there have given the same news. He is performing fully the duties of a Nur student. May God Almighty grant him success !

We also congratulate, together with the Night of Power, the undercover activities in Karabük of Mustafa Osman, who is one of the Nur heroes, and his work for the Risale-i Nur, and congratulate also the enthusiasm and efforts of the students in Eflâni and thereabouts. [^93]

[^93]:I was distressed this Ramadan because while correcting The Shining Lamp I could not find the time to recite all my usual invocations. Then suddenly it occurred to me that in one way the topics I was reading were worship, and in another they were pure knowledge of God and recollection of God which yield peace of heart and love and belief; they therefore filled the place of the invocations that were only partially recited. [Author]

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If it is easy, it would be appropriate if the books that are being sent to Istanbul could be sent via here. It would also be useful if twenty or thirty copies could be bound for me in Istanbul and then sent to me. I do not at present have the money for them to send, and there are numerous people I am obliged to give copies to.

I am obliged to explain the inner meaning of something, because when one or two doctors who are leading Nur students come to visit me, I do not consult those sincere, loyal persons concerning my illness although it is very severe, nor do I take their medicines despite my acute need and pains. I say nothing about the illness, so they become anxious and eager to know. Thinking that it may be useful for you too, I am writing it here. I told them:

Prompted by Satan's whisperings, both my covert enemies and my soul search out my weak points so that by means of them they may get a grip on me and damage the purely sincere service of the Risale-i Nur. Illness is a person's weakest point and the most serious obstacle. The more he attaches importance to illness, the more the bodily and instinctive senses come to rule him, compelling him to submit to them and silencing his spirit and heart. They make the doctor a dictatorial ruler, forcing the person to obediently take his medicines. This is detrimental to self-sacrificing, sincere service. My covert enemies have tried to exploit this weak point of mine and they are still trying, just as they have tried to exploit fear, greed, and