offer many benefits for the Islamic world. I send many greetings to all my brothers and sisters and pray for them, and request their prayers.

The Enduring One, He is the Enduring One!

Your brother,

S a i d   N u r s i ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers !

Firstly: Ali and Haji Süleyman from the auspicious village (Kuleönü), and Abdurrahman and Himmet from the vicinity of Dinar, and a leading Nurju from my home region, all came to visit me. I offer thanks to Almighty God that their fervent attachment to the Risale-i Nur in Kuleönü persists as ever, It was a wonder of their loyalty and sincerity that at the very time I had been obliged to send ten of my own collections to Ankara and from other distant places further books had been requested of me, those auspicious brothers brought me as a gift from the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ exactly the amount of the books I had sent. I found among them the entire Letters (Mektûbat) and Additional Letters (Lahika), written out in his own handwriting by Büyük Mustafa (the Elder), who is the leading Abdurrahman. May Almighty God bestow on all of them instances of mercy to the number of those books' letters. Amen!

Secondly: The day before yesterday, Mustafa, one of the young heroes of the Risale-i Nur, came to visit me. He assisted Husrev for eleven months in prison, working quite selflessly for his comfort. He told me that he intended to go and visit him. I replied that it was both Husrev's right and his own right that he should visit him, but that four students who had come here, had gone to Isparta, so there was no longer any need. I told him that since he acted on account of the Risale-i Nur as imam in a large village, that was more useful for the Risale-i Nur than either my personal service, or visiting Husrev at present. If such services for the Risale-i Nur had not been performed in his village, there would have been need for someone as sincere and devoted as himself. So his visit was postponed for now.

Thirdly: Haji Sabri of Konya came to visit me. We were holding a conversation and Sâdık, Hayrî, and Mustafa were presen; it was an important lesson for him. The work for the cause of belief performed for this country and nation and the Islamic world by the leading students of the Medresetü' z-Zehrâ and particularly by Husrev, and their forming a barrier against