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The Egyptian radio spoke so much about the Ascension on Wednesday night, that I celebrated it on both Wednesday night and on Thursday night.
Secondly: Evidently, one of the commanders of the Afyon gendarmerie was angry at Ishārāt al-I'jāz (Signs of Miraculousness) being seized from us, seeing that it is a scholarly work that was written years ago. The Afyon Public Prosecutor's Office decided that it should be returned to us. They summoned us on Friday and Hayri on the day of the Ascension, and returned it. I considered this to be a sign of the Ascension that, as with the return in Tarsus, the spread of the Risale-i Nur cannot be prevented. God willing, we shall get back our Qur'an and other treatises from Afyon. Concerning the copies of A Guide for Youth which were given to the Public Prosecutor's Office in Istanbul, foremost the lawyer Mehmed Mihrî, who was a leading student of the Old Said, and his son-in-law the defending lawyer Asım, said that they were going to take this matter to court with fifty other lawyers, but, God willing, there will be no need for that and he will get them back with going to court.
Thirdly: The piece called, "Complaint to the Supreme Tribunal at the Resurrection of the Dead," and the piece consisting of ten matters that addressed the Parliament twenty-eight years ago and was printed at that time, and also the piece consisting of three matters about Mustafa that was written four years ago for the President of the Republic, have all been sent to Ankara to show to some of the present deputies and to the believing members of the government. I am also sending them to you for your information.
Fourthly: Mehmed Çavuş and his brother from the village of Baraklı near Dinar came to visit me together with another man. They appeared to me to be quite serious. Subsequently, they wrote some things in a letter and I am sending you a part of it attached. The brother asks some questions, but the Risale-i Nur leaves no need for this; it supplies answers to everything in my place. Only, in his question about the verse, "Immortal youths will [attend on] them" (Q 56: 17, 76: 19) in the letter of condolence on the death of a child, [^16] it says in some old commentaries that in Paradise everyone from children to the elderly will be thirty-three years of age. God knows best, but the meaning is this, that the term "youths (wildān)" in the unambiguous verse means that children, for whom it is not compulsory to perform the religious obligations and they are absolved from them, and who die before the age of puberty, will remain as lovable children worthy of
[^16]:The Seventeenth Letter. See, Letters 1928-1932 (Istanbul: Sözler Publications, 2013), 97-100. [Tr.]