Thirdly: I have great need this Ramadan to read the Qur'an with fervour and pleasure, but I have become nervous due to the effects of my painful illness, and physical and spiritual distress, weariness, and preoccupations. Then one after the other I began to read the miraculous portions of the Qur'an written by Husrev with his elegant pen and the wondrous Ḥizb al-Akbar al-Qur'āniyya, [^96] which will gain numerous merits for Hâfız Ali and Tahirî, and they filled me with such pleasure and eagerness that they dispelled all that weariness. While listening to those shining lessons from the Qur'an, which disallow every sort of doubt and scruple, I desired with all my life and spirit and resolved determinedly to print our miraculous Qur'an photographically, as far as is possible, just as the Ḥizb al-Akbar al-Qur'āniyya has been printed, God willing.

[^96]:Ḥizb al-Akbar al-Qur'āniyya: one of the various names Bediuzzaman gives the collection of Qur'anic verses he compiled. See fn 17 above.

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It is indeed a good omen that thanks to the Risale-i Nur's conquests and on the orders of Ankara, your confiscated books have been returned to you. In so far as it will contribute to the Risale-i Nur's winning its complete freedom, it is a great victory for it and most advantageous. All praise be to God, this is through the grace of my Lord!

We congratulate Alil Ali Osman and Çilingir Ali, our extremely hardworking brothers, both on their good wishes and on the festival and the Night of Power, and on their wondrous, valuable, and highly meritorious services for the Risale-i Nur, and we pray for their success and their protection. They have made all those connected with the Risale-i Nur indebted to them for all eternity. May God be pleased with them. Amen! I send my greetings to all the brothers and sisters named in Ali Osman's letter, and we pray for them and request their prayers. May Almighty God bestow mercy on our brother Kazım's spirit and fill his grave with light, Amen!

It was a wonder of Ali Osman's pen that the fifteen short treatises that he sent arrived at the same time as two of the leading students from the Konya Nur School. They said they needed those treatises and they were given to them. They will gain reward for Ali Osman on a wider scale.

We send our greetings to everyone and offer prayers for them. ∗∗∗