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the other leading students of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ whether or not to include Lemeât at the end of The Words as the Thirty-Third Word. I send my greetings to all my brothers and sisters, and pray for them, and request their prayers. [^8]

[^8]:If you accept it, the copy of Lemeât I have will be sent to you later. [Author]

The Enduring One, He is the Enduring One!

S a i d   N u r s i ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal, Faithful, Sincere, and Genuine Brothers and Sisters!

We congratulate you with our whole life and spirit on the festival, and on the festival of those who this year were free to make the Hajj, and on this nation beginning to enjoy — with the despotism in this country being lifted — the freedom prescribed by the Shari'a. We congratulate you too on the nation's spiritual festival and on the festival enjoyed by the Islamic world with its shared awakening, and on the Risale-i Nur answering with the truth of the Qur'an the need humanity feels for the Qur'an's lights.

The Enduring One, He is the Enduring One! ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers !

Firstly: I have sent to Seyyid Sâlih ten of my own collections from the Risale-i Nur which he had asked you for, for the Muslim Brothers, who are very prominent in Aleppo and the region. He should give them to them.

Secondly: I am closely concerned with Denizli and with our Nur brothers there. Just when I was wondering how the late Hasan Feyzi's friends were, and how and where our old brother Yâkub Cemal was, I was greatly pleased to receive Yâkub Cemal's festival congratulations, sent in the name of the Denizli Nurjus. It took me longing and yearning on a trip around Denizli, and I exclaimed: Mâsha'llah! Bârekâllah!

Thirdly: Some of the wretches who tormented the Nurjus for twenty years and thrust them into prison, are now suffering everyday the distress that they inflicted on us in a month. We endured it in patience, referring those tyrants to Hell. However, the sacredness of the service of belief

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