would be appropriate if the vehement words were toned down, since the Ankara government is not opposed to Said.

The Third: A sign that the wrongful oppression of the Nurjus is being lessened and rebuffed is that although, according to certain reports, there was a plan to send to court at least six hundred active and capable Nur students due to Afyon Court saying that there were six hundred thousand of them and on the pretext of the Malatya Incident, [^19] only one out of twelve and then out of six was given a one-year sentence. It was in consequence of this that the severe expressions were toned down.

[^19]:The Malatya Incident refers to an attempt on the life of the journalist Ahmed Emin Yalman on 22 November 1952, The incident was seized on by the opposition press as an opportunity to accuse Prime Minister Menderes and the Democrat government of encouraging reactionism (irtica), as a consequence of which it bowed to pressure and closed down a number of pro-Islamic newspapers. [Tr.]

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[A lesson from Signs of Miraculousness (Ishārāt al-I'jāz) given by our Master to Santral Sabri and Sıddık Süleyman in Emirdağ.]

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate

All praise be to God, the Lord of all the Worlds, and blessings and peace be upon our Master, Muhammad, and upon his Family and Companions, for ever and ever!

Signs of Miraculousness consists of only the first of what was going to be thirty parts. Our Master said that since the Risale-i Nur is a commentary on the Qur'an's meanings, he had greater need for it at this time, for it comprises what the remainder of the thirty parts were going to contain. Yes, it seems that Signs of Miraculousness is an index and list of the Risale-i Nur in its entirety, and a seedbed of that light garden, and a source elucidating the Qur'an's inimitability (i'jāz al-Qur'ān). Owing to its subtlety and profundity, only few scholars have comprehended it up to now. But whoever has seen it has appreciated its singularity and applauded it greatly. The Old Said's discerning the very finest relationships between the words and phrases in the Qur'an's miraculously concise composition, while in the front lines and sometimes on horseback during the fierce fighting of the First World War, and his being preoccupied with this, and the grievous