them are written in perfect order and without being mixed up as much information as may be contained in a large library. This proves decisively that the World of Similitudes and the Preserved Tablet are large examples of those faculties.
It is definite and as certain as the knowledge of certainty (ilmelyakîn) that the elements air and water, particularly seminal fluid and the air, are far superior to the element earth and are written with more wisdom and will, and with the pen of divine determining and power, and that it is completely impossible for chance, blind force, deaf nature, and lifeless and aimless causes to interfere in them, and that they are a page of the pen of power and the wisdom of the All-Wise One of Glory. This was known with the knowledge of certainty.
The rest of this was not written for now.
Glory be unto You! We have no knowledge save that which You have taught us; You are indeed All-Knowing, All-Wise! (Q 2:32)
Your brother,
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My Dear, Loyal Brothers and Active, Steadfast Friends in the Service of the Qur'an!
Firstly: We congratulate you with all our life and spirit on the first ten nights of Dhu'l-Ḥijja, which this year bear the meaning of the Greater Hajj.
Secondly: The Risale-i Nur's conquests continue both at home and abroad. But the people of vice and misguidance, our covert enemies, alarm the Nur students by causing minor incidents, and making mountains out of molehills, unnerve them. Recently, an incident occurred close to the house of a leading student, where most of my books and my letters of three years were openly found, There was a strong, ninety per cent, possibility of this being taken advantage of and his house being searched, but through Almighty God's providence, protection, and preservation, it was saved from this. If that morning I had not sternly admonished two of our ingenuous brothers and got them to remove them from there, once again the Risale-i Nur and its circle would have been in an awkward situation. It appears that a sort of fear of politics caused the incident that did occur. It is true that divine providence preserved us, but at present the collections are being published and are circulating so we are obliged to be calm and cir-