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My Dear, Loyal Brothers !

Firstly: We were delighted at your surpassing good news, which is a preliminary to the Risale-i Nur's complete freedom. The Isparta judiciary held the books in a house for three years, so as its rent, in exchange for that three hundred liras, send me fifty copies of the biography printed in the new letters at the price of two liras per copy out of the five hundred liras that was left to me, so the price will be the equivalent of those three hundred liras. Send me copies of The Staff of Moses and Zülfikar to the value of fifty liras, since they have suffered imprisonment for four years and are most precious in my eyes, I am sending you the fifty liras now.

Secondly: Bârekâllah! Mâsha'llah! to Nazif a thousand times over! He has proved that he is a second Husrev and that İnebolu is a second Isparta. The Medresetü'z-Zehrâ is the most important matter in the biography and I reckon that Nazif's publications have played a role in the President's serious efforts to found an eastern al-Azhar University, called the University of the East, which bears the meaning of the Medresetü' z-Zehrâ.

Thirdly: Write in reply to the meaningful letter of the Imam Süleyman of Baraklı near Dinar that it is definitely true that the Prophet Muhammad (UWBP) praised the Turks. He indicates their importance in several places. There are Hadiths, but because I do not have any Hadith books with me and do not know the correct wording. But it is certain that the Turkish nation was praised by him. One example is the Hadith about Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror.

The letter sent by Hulûsi Bey, one of the oldest Nur students, is very fine and meaningful and urges his friends in Ankara to enter the fold of the Risale-i Nur. It shows too that he offers a fine example with the unwavering services he has performed for the Risale-i Nur these last twenty-five years. I send many greetings to all my brothers and sisters. ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

Firstly: Endless thanks be to Almighty God that we have joyfully received five copies of The Staff of Moses and The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen, which had been imprisoned in the court for the last three years. May Almighty God be pleased with you for ever and ever!

Secondly: The errors in the copy of Zülfikar returned by the court had not been corrected. The "Lām" in the eighth line on page one hundred and ten of the Fourth Addendum to The Miracles of the Qur'an is wrong; it