would be splendid to include copies of the miraculous Qur'an with them. Hopefully, God Almighty will bestow success on the Nurjus, if He so wills. ∗∗∗

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As the price of The Ratifying Stamp, I have obtained fifty copies of A Guide for Youth from the publishers and have given the money. Also, in exchange, as the blessed price of that blessed collection are two saucepans which have served me well but are not now necessary and which I did not want to give to anyone, and a cotton robe I have worn for fifteen years, and a truly blessed book; a kettle and teapot, a razor I have used to shave with for twenty-four years, and a sheet which has served me for a long time past. As reckoned and recommended by Kılınç Ali's father, who was present, and Ahmed Rasih, nine liras for the saucepans, nine liras for the kettle and teapot, nine liras for the razor, and for the cotton robe, sheet, two hand-towels, some underpants and a cotton shirt a total of one hundred and twenty-five liras. They estimated these prices, but I thought it should be less and said that was too much. Greetings to all. ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers !

Firstly: Besides congratulating you on the Ten Nights, [^98] we want to tell you about two wonders of the Risale-i Nur. The many-sided expansion of the Nur service, especially with the duplicating machines, has confused the covert hostile atheists. Using a wretched unthinking man and following an unimportant but grievous plan, they provoked an incident that might have given rise to numerous suspicions and calumnies: four shots were fired right beside the house of one of the leading Nur students here who performs the most vital tasks, wounding some wretched man. The doctor said it was one hundred per cent certain that he would die. Although there were many people, official and unofficial, to support the wounded man's case and a ninety-per-cent possibility that the crime would be attributed to that leading Nur student and in connection with this, his house would be searched and all the treatises and letters of the Risale-i Nur would be

[^98]:The first ten nights of the month of Dhu'l-Ḥijja, the month of the Hajj and twelfth month of the Hijri year. The Tenth day of Dhu'l-Ḥijja marks the first day of the 'Eid al-Aḍḥa, the Festival of Sacrifices. [Tr.]