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My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

Endless thanks be to Almighty God, a sign of the Risale-i Nur's acceptance by Mecca and Medina is this: the Denizli hero Hâfız Mustafa obtained from Istanbul the Zülfikar, Staff of Moses, and Shining Lamp that were going to be sent to the Indian ulema, and on the road, read them to some people travelling to the Hajj. Then in Medina, they together handed them over to a very famous Kashmiri scholar and to someone who knew Turkish well. The two young Nurju hajis who had accompanied Hâfız Mustafa and read the Risale-i Nur on the journey, and some other hajis, brought me this good news, and that the person to whom they had given those collections thought very highly of them and undertook to send them to the centre of the Indian ulema, and also that the collections designated for Medina had arrived in good condition, as had those sent to other places; they brought the good news of the Risale-i Nur's spread and acceptance abroad. Only, of the three collections sent to al-Azhar University, Zülfikar remained here; we were unable to send it; only two of them went. The wisdom in this is that Zülfikar is an extensive, scholarly lesson. It would not have been appropriate to send it as instruction to al-Azhar University, which is the supreme medrese of the Islamic world. Also, there is a cholera epidemic there at the moment, so Zülfikar would not have received the attention it deserves. ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

Firstly: May God bless and bestow endless happiness on our brother Hâfız Mustafa, a leading Nur champion, who took the main Risale-i Nur collections to Mecca and gave them to the eminent Indian scholar Ahmad 'Ali Shimshiri, who assured him that they would be translated into Urdu (lit. Hintçe) and be sent to India. The Medresetü'z-Zehrâ should write a letter to that lofty scholar. His address is: Ahmad 'Ali Shimshiri, Bab al-Salam, Mecca.

Secondly: We learnt that the incident this time was due to their unfounded suspicions and making mountains out of molehills. A sign of it was this: on orders from the Minister of the Interior, the governor of Afyon and chief of police came here at night, intending to raid my house, but because the public prosecutor did not agree, they had to wait till morning. They then appointed two men who were most hostile to us and who without ado smashed the lock and entered. The same day when I went out in