and which may win an eighty-year life of worship, I beseech divine mercy that every one of you together with all the Nur students, and particularly this wretched, most faulty, ill, weak brother of yours, will receive a share and that your supplications will be accepted at the divine court, affirmed by thousands of amens.
Secondly: The young Saids in the university are in truth performing in Ankara and Istanbul the tasks of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ, leaving no need for this wretched Said. As an example of the Risale-i Nur's being in every way sufficient, I am now sending you attached the statements they wrote addressing the deputies, for your information and to be put at the beginning of the seventy copies of the biography, which was also prepared by them, so as to be sent to the seventy deputies. If you consider it appropriate, the statement may be added to the biography as a sort of addendum together with Sungur's defence for the Education Ministry, which I sent to you previously, and Mustafa Osman's petition to Minister of Justice, with fifty to sixty copies either written out by hand or typed, or duplicated in the new letters in İnebolu. I leave this to your discretion,
Thirdly: The leading members of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ are my genuine deputies; they may reply in my place to the letters sent to me, In particular, they should reply suitably to those persons whose names are written in Husrev's letter. We are sending attached part of the reply to the letter Ahmed Feyzi wrote you.
We congratulate all our brothers and sisters on the blessed month of Ramadan and its nights, and send greetings and prayers, and request their prayers. ∗∗∗
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In His Name, be He glorified!
[We are informing Sebilürreşad, the disseminator of truth, of the treatment meted out by the People's Party which was illegal in a hundred ways.]
Our Master, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, whose illness from poison was worsening so that he feared for his life, sent eight books he had bought with his own money to his brother, a mufti, to protect them. For some secret purpose, the official in the Emirdağ post office seized the books as though he were a policeman, and in person went and told the gendarmes,