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My Dear, Loyal Brothers !

Firstly: We congratulate you on the joyous reciting of the Arabic call to prayer from the minarets, for it is the introduction to great festivals for both yourselves, and this country, and the world of Islam, and delivers the good news that the marks of Islam will once again shine forth in this country. And saying "Amen" to your acceptable prayers and worship in Ramadan, which wins an eighty-year life of worship, I beseech divine mercy that every night of Ramadan will gain for you the reward of the Night of Power. I request spiritual assistance from you this Ramadan, since I am unable to work well due to my extreme weakness and illness.

Secondly: One of my greatest wishes is to pass the last part of my life in the region of Isparta. I said, as did the Nur Efe: "Isparta is blessed for me, with its very stones and soil." Even, whenever during the last twenty-five years I have felt angry in my heart with the former government, which illtreated and tormented me, I never felt angry at the Isparta authorities, and forgot the others for their sake. I am particularly grateful to the zealous lovers of freedom there, called Democrats, who are true patriots and have started to repair the damage, and who appreciate the Risale-i Nur and the Nurjus. I offer many prayers for their success. God willing, those lovers of freedom will do away with the old absolute tyranny and work for the establishment of a freedom that is congruent with the Shari'a.

Thirdly: For a particular reason, I have to stay here for some time following the festival. A month or two after that, I shall accept to go wherever you deem suitable, on the decision of the leading members of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ and the agreement of the young Saids in Istanbul and Ankara Universities. Since you are my true heirs and you perform my duties in this world a thousand times better than I do, I am leaving it to you to decide where my last dwelling place should be in this life.

Fourthly: I appoint you to deputize for me if you reply to the letters of Ahmed Nazif, Ahmed Feyzi, Halil Ibrahim, Hasan Atıf, and the Nurjus in Bucak, Eflâni, and Istanbul who have sent their congratulations and shown their strong attachment. ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers !

Firstly: In connection with the vigil of the Night of Power, which according to a Hadith falls in the second half of Ramadan, particularly the last ten days, and the odd numbers and especially on the twenty-seventh,