some parts of the Risale-i Nur. He said that he would try to disseminate them among the ninety million Muslims there. He took them and went. Moreover, despite so many dissemblers working against us, the Risale-i Nur has been taken to far-off places in both Europe and Asia. Also, when the Germans in Berlin got hold of Zülfikar, they announced their praises of it in the newspapers, Also, the believers at home are reading The Staff of Moses and Zülfikar enthusiastically, attaching no importance to the prohibitions placed on them by the former Prime Minister and Interior Minister, who were the most opposed to them. Most of the readers are in Ankara. Also, prison directors in several places in two or three provinces have decided to make their prisons into Nur Schools so that their prisoners may reform through the Risale-i Nur, as they did in the prisons of Denizli and Afyon.

Thirdly: The late Burhan was an unlettered, secret hero of the Risale-i Nur. I offer my condolences to both his relatives, and Isparta, and the students of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ. I received the news five or six days ago and during those five or six days, I have prayed for him perhaps a thousand times. For while reciting my invocations during those six days, I have intended him the nearly four hundred times I have pronounced "Save us from Hellfire I make over to Burhan all that I have read and recited.

Fourthly: The Risale-i Nur has begun to fill the secular schools with light. Their pupils are attaching themselves to it to a greater extent than the medrese (religious school) scholars, becoming students of it and spreading it. God willing, the inmates of the religious schools will slowly recognize the Risale-i Nur's worth, for in reality it belongs to them and is the product of their schools. Even now, many muftis and religious scholars appear to be enthusastic about it and are requesting it. The most important frequenters of the Sufi convents (tekye) are the followers of the Sufi way (ehl-i tarikat). It is absolutely essential that they illuminate the Risale-i Nur with all their strength and that they look on it as their own. [^12] Up to now I have thought only of the reality of belief and have said that the present is not the time of the Sufi tarikat; innovations do not permit it. But now it is necessary and essential that all the followers of the tarikats who are within the bounds of the Prophet's (UWBP) Sunna should regard the circle of the Risale-i Nur, which is the summary of all the twelve major tarikats and is

[^12]:A significant example is all the disciples of Seydişehirli Hacı Abdullah, in both Kastamonu, and Isparta, and Eskişehir, considering the Risale-i Nur circle to be their own tarikat circles, for those of them who come across the Risale-i Nur, become attached to it appreciatively, May God grant them His blessings! [Author]