reality and truths of belief been subject to such malicious and cruel aggression. Your Directorate and centre of learning make it encumbent on you that before all else you perform this religious and scholarly duty. This last time I was poisoned, I thought I was going to die but thinking that Ahmed Hamdi would take on the Risale-i Nur in my place I felt easy in my heart and comforted. We sent some parts of our court defences to your previous office, and now I am sending a complete, well-written, and absolutely correct copy, so that, on your indication, it may be shown to the people who will work for the Risale-i Nur's freedom. ∗∗∗
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In His Name, be He glorified!
May God's peace be upon you and His mercy and blessings!
My Dear, Loyal Brothers, the Nur Students of Safranbolu and the Environs of Eflâni!
May God grant you endless blessings for your gift of the parts of the Risale-i Nur that you sent! And may He grant you happiness in this world and the next. Amen!
Each of the blessed Nur students have written out beautifully a number of treatises and recently sent them to me as gifts, and strangely, they arrived together with some sweets while I was severely sick and distressed. Although for a long time past it has been my custom not to accept unreciprocated gifts, the reason I have accepted these ones perfectly happily and gratefully, are three meaningful and strange events.
The First: I was attempting to send both the eleven collections which had been duplicated on the machine and I had myself bought with some money, and the complete set of the Risale-i Nur which had been written by three invaluable, diamond-penned Nur students. A set had been requested five or six times by the Directorate of Religious Affairs, so I had prepared this one, which was also to be a gift to motivate the somewhat neglected muftis and hojas, and I wanted Husrev to come here to perform this most important task. But I was in a difficult position and very anxious. Then suddenly, at that very time, Sungur, the heroic young Husrev, arrived. He both saved me from my anxiety and alarm, and from the expense; and since the task had the importance of two year's service together with me, it made me feel quite certain that it was an instance of the wondrous success won in publishing the Risale-i Nur.