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For the past three years, our brother Ahmed Feyzi, who is the Risale-i Nur's lawyer and the Hasan Feyzi of Aydın and a Husrev of that region has affirmed the hundreds of allusions to the Risale-i Nur made by The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen, and most powerfully and definitely proved — in agreement with the meaning of certain Hadiths and verses from the Qur'an and with the science of divination (cifir; jafr) — the Risale-i Nur's collective personality. He ascribes to the Risale-i Nur's Interpreter, a number of allusions made by Hadiths to the Nur students' collective personality, which is a representative of the Risale-i Nur's collective personality. The fact is, though, he is a sort of representative of that collective personality only in regard to the Risale-i Nur's composition. It is neither my right nor my due that I should be the object (lit. means, pivot — medâr) of that sacred allusion. In any event, I have not studied it very closely. If my time and indisposition permit me to do so and to modify the minute investigations over three-and-a-half years of that extraordinarily intelligent brother, I shall send them to you to write out and add as an addendum to The Mysteries Collection (Tılsımlar Mecmuası) or to The Flashes Collection, as a proof of the Risale-i Nur's authenticity. Send in my name a copy of The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen to our brother, Ahmed Feyzi, the Risale-i Nur's lawyer, in return for his gifts of figs so that they will not upset me. For recently, numerous experiences have made it understood that unreciprocated presents make me ill.

In return for the sincere letters they have written me, I offer many prayers for that brother's blessed wife and respected mother and their children called Said and Nuri. With all my life and spirit I accept within the fold of the Nur innocents, the innocent children and respected, pious wife of such a heroic Nurju whom he has entrusted to the Risale-i Nur to serve it as devotees. And I send greetings to Mehmed Emin, Ali Akdağ, and Ahmed Feyzi, and to all our brothers, and we pray for them. ∗∗∗

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In His Name, be He glorified!

My Dear, Loyal Brothers !

Having sold some unnecessary foodstuffs and clothes, I am sending you as the price of The Flashes Collection a truly blessed hundred liras together with ten blessed liras, which is what remains of my salary from the Darü'l-Hikmet — with which I was going to go on the Hajj, and is left from what I have spent on food this last twenty-two years. ∗∗∗