should be "Lā", because in the Qur'an, "Lām" is thirty thousand, and "Lā" nineteen thousand.

Thirdly: In a letter written in the new letters, a person from the Sümerbank factory in Isparta asks a question. You can advise him for me to read the treatise on divine determining. I am both unwell, and unable to write personal letters. Also, Zübeyir has gone to Ankara. Anyway, I don't know the new letters. I am sending it to you for your information.

Fourthly: I have sent my own subsistence, another fifty liras, with the driver Abdurrahman. You can work out how much I owe for the books you sent me and The Words Collection. This was written in haste. I send many greetings to everyone. ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers !

Firstly: I congratulate you. The petition sent this time by Husrev to the ministers is a splendid historical document. But in a wire I received from Sungur a couple of days ago, it says that orders have been given for the return of one hundred and eighty-five works. We could not understand the numbers here. We asked the clerk of the telegraph office. He had evidently written it down wrong. I heard the machine with my own ears: "It means all the works are being returned." I wondered if possibly they had counted some parts of the one hundred and thirty treatises, making it one hundred and eighty-five. We could not understand it. Also, as reported in the Yeni Sabah newspaper, we heard that the President said about a large Islamic university called the University of the East — the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ — that they were endeavouring to overcome all the difficulties to found it. God willing, they will be compelled to build it for the benefit of the country and nation, for it is a goal I have been pursuing for the past forty years.

Secondly: I have sent to a number of important places several of the copies of Zülfikar and The Staff of Moses you sent, which like us were imprisoned for three years. For instance, Abdurrahîm from Vastan, who is Imam in the mosque in Cezire (Cizre) and is one of my old students, came all the way here to visit me. I gave him ten of the most important books. But then I remembered that in two places in the Fourth Addendum to "The Miracles of the Qur'an" in Zülfikar, one in the eighth line and one in the tenth, "Lām" had been written instead of "Lā", but in the Qur'an, "Lām" is thirty thousand, and "Lā" nineteen thousand. This error had been partially corrected in the other copies, but it had not been corrected in the copies of