prominent scholar came to visit me who is originally from Bukhara and lives in Medina and has connections with leading scholars in Egypt and particularly with our former Seyhülislam and my friend in the Darü'l- Hikmet, Mustafa Sabri Efendi. He had told them that he was coming here and in a way came in their name. I gave him as a gift for al-Azhar University eleven copies of my personal collections and sent them with him to that principal school of the Islamic world, which as he said, now has twenty-seven thousand students. And I told him that foremost Mustafa Sabri, and Ali Rıza and Mehmet Zahid Kevseri, should take up those collections from the Risale-i Nur in my place, and protect and inherit them, and try to have them translated into Arabic. I also wrote a letter. The scholar took them and departed.

I send greetings to all my brothers and sisters, and request their prayers.

The Enduring One, He is the Enduring One!

Your brother,

S a i d   N u r s i ∗∗∗

► (056) ◄

Firstly: Endless thanks that now in what has the meaning of a small Nur School in Ankara, young Saids and devotees of the Risale-i Nur read one of the collections of the Risale-i Nur every evening; one person reads and the others listen and take lessons. Some high-ranking persons also attend when, on some occasions, there are conferences. In connection with the slanders of the Afyon journalist, some deputies told the Prime Minister and Interior Ministry, and said to the Nur students that Adnan Menderes [^14] and the Interior Minister had responded in a friendly manner and sent word that they [the students] should not worry or lose hope. The journalist in Afyon then evidently said that he was going to go to Emirdağ because he had two things to ask of our Master, and that he was going to request these and offer an apology, My students bought one hundred and sixty copies of the newspaper which was published against us, and destroyed them.

[^14]:Adnan Menderes (1899-1961); politician and statesman, and founder member of the Democrat Party. He was Prime Minister 1950-1960, and unjustly executed (17 September 1961) following the May 1960 military coup. [Tr.]

I was going to write some more, but I have cut it short due to my indisposition and have only a little time. I send greetings to everyone. ∗∗∗