someone fancied it while I was in prison, and they took it and it got lost. I still have around forty of his letters. I am going to mark them, God willing, and if I can't have them copied out here, I'll send them to you. They can be put together in a notebook, and owing to their importance, perhaps be duplicated.
Fifthly: I have sent fifteen copies of The Words Collection to Ankara. They were very useful. The Nurjus there are working heroically behind the screen of caution.
Sixthly: I have corrected Letters (Mektûbat), which you do not have and which Husrev wants. I shall send it with someone. This time, I realized that the Twenty-Fourth Letter is very valuable, very subtle, very profound, and absolutely true.
I send many greetings to everyone.
The Enduring One, He is the Enduring One!
S a i d N u r s i ∗∗∗
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My Dear, Loyal, and Blessed Brothers !
Firstly: Our brother, the İnebolu Husrev, Nazif Celebi, wrote to me and asked what would be appropriate to publish after finishing the Hizb-i Nûriye and Salâvat. If you agree, I think it would best to publish the treatises For the Sick and For the Elderly from The Flashes Collection, the short Letter of Condolence for a Child, which is the Seventeenth Letter, and the short letter about serving the elderly. But if the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ members deem it necessary, they can correct or excise any sentence or passage they think fit. And they may add to these any other short treatise. Send Nazif a reply in this vein quickly. That brother's publishing together the Jaushan al-Kabir and the Salâvat of the Hizb-i Nûriye is a considerable service for the Nurjus and the believers. May Almighty God bestow on him and his assistants a thousand merits for every single letter. Amen!
Secondly: The new government slowly understands that true power resides in the Qur'an and that they many withstand the destructive enemies through Islamic brotherhood and the truths of belief. Sometimes, a single destructive person may cause alarm to twenty repairers and may sometimes rout them. It is not material forces or external and internal policies and pacts that, when the twenty million Muslims here are quite simply in a situation of defeat, will halt the assaults against them of a force that made vast China submit to itself; it is only the Qur'an and truths of belief forming a