dangers of that terrible war not distracting him, nor the freezing cold, and his considering the subtleties of those relationships to be more important than anything are all examples of his truly wondrous devotion and self-sacrifice in serving the Qur'an. In fact, we look on the Old Said's scholarly and moral sacrifices in those terrible conditions, attaching no importance to the horrors as he composed Signs of Miraculousness, as even more wondrous than the self-sacrifice of the New Said these thirty years, and his not reading the newspapers for thirty-five years in the present strange times and for ten years neither knowing nor asking about the Second World War, and his never giving up writing the Qur'an's mysteries in prison despite being under threat of execution, and his totally disregarding all the dangers.

Secondly: In truth, some wonders are apparent in the printed copies of Signs of Miraculousness which allow no possibility of chance. It was therefore thought appropriate to reprint it in the same way, showing the wonders, to send to such places as Arabia and Pakistan. Nevertheless, the extremely succinct and concise sentences with which the Old Said elucidated the inimitability of the Qur'an's conciseness, and the fine relationships and eloquence, need to be elucidated and translated into Turkish.

One of the marvels of Signs of Miraculousness is its showing the inimitable flashes of miraculousness in the relationships between the Qur'an's verses, and between the phrases of each of its verses and between their words and letters, and in the meanings thereby intended, and in the composition and ordering of each of the verses, phrases, words, and letters; and its explicating the fine points in the composition as the second hand of a clock counts the seconds, the minute hand, the minutes, and the hour hand, the hours, and its elucidating the truths with proofs, and its showing that sometimes a single letter expresses a significant truth, It proves the meanings of all the verses concisely with decisive arguments so that they now form the seeds and summaries of the one hundred and thirty parts of the Risale-i Nur. And it expounds the fine points of the sentences, phrases, and letters and their implied meaning through the subtle rules of the science of rhetoric, and the rules of Arabic grammar and syntax, and the principles of the sciences of logic, the principles of religion, and other sciences. It discovers and elucidates, even, the very finest eloquent relationships undiscernible with a microscope and the hints of theme And since the Qur'an's view is universal, it may surely be said that its sacred words implicitly and symbolically allude to and indicate all true meanings and points, which are elucidated.

Husrev, Sungur, Hayri, Sâdık, Sabri, Sıddık Süleyman