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In His Name, be He glorified!

And there is nothing but it glorifies Him with praise! (Q 17:44)

My Dear, Loyal Brothers !

Firstly: A Hadith announces the strong possibility that the Night of Power may fall on any of the last ten days of Ramadan, especially the odd numbers. The Nurjus therefore should try to profit from that supreme light.

Secondly: The sending to the magistrates' court of two of our brothers who perform their duties to the letter like Husrev and Tahirî, together with another Nurju who follows their system, will turn out to be a signficant instance of divine providence and a victory, God willing. Don't worry about it. In accordance with an inner meaning of the verse, "It may be that you hate a thing that is [in fact] good for you" (Q 2:216), it will lead to the oppressors winning material and spiritual Hellfire and Nurjus winning Paradise, both in this world and the next, God willing.

Thirdly: I told the high-ranking official who visited me the other day in connection with this letter that it has now become clear that three extraordinary events which occurred during the Old Said's adventurous life were wonders of the Risale-i Nur, which was to appear in the future. As follows:

During the Thirty-First of March Incident when Mahmud Şevket Pasha, the commander-in-chief of the army, was extremely angry with me, Hurşid Pasha, the chief of the military court, asked while I was being tried and outside fifteen bodies were hanging on the gallows: "Did you call for the Shari'a? Look! Those who clamoured for it are hanged like that!" I replied: "If I had a thousand lives, I'd sacrifice all of them for one matter of the Shari'a!" Although I said this and because of the calumnies of informers there were numerous reasons to condemn me, exceptionally the court gave its unanimous decision for my acquittal.

Also, following the Great War in Istanbul, copies of The Seven Steps (Hutuvat-ı Sitte), a furious piece I had written against the British, and another insulting their chief cleric, came into the hands of the commander of their occupation forces, and it was a hundred per cent certain that he would have me eliminated, but he suppressed his anger and did not bother me.

Also, in Ankara in the president's office in the National Assembly when there were numerous deputies present, Mustafa Kemal entered the office in a towering rage and yelled at me: "We summoned you here to tell us your lofty ideas, but you came and wrote a few things about the obligatory prayers, causing discord amongst us!" In the face of his anger, I replied: