laws, it will heal those three awesome wounds — as it did one thousand three hundred years ago; and if doomsday does not soon break loose, with its showing that rather than being external extinction, death resembles the despatch papers for the world of light, it will gain for humankind the happiness both of worldly life and of the life of the hereafter; and in the civilization that will grow out of the All-Wise Qur'an, the virtues of civilization will prevail over its evils; and unlike what has happened up to the present, a part of religion will not be given as the bribe for part of civilization, but civilization will serve and assist those heavenly laws. As the All-Wise Qur'an indicates this, so awakened humanity awaits it from divine mercy, and seeks it, and beseeches divine mercy for it.

The Enduring One, He is the Enduring One!

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In His Name, be He glorified!

And there is nothing but it glorifies Him with praise! (Q 17:44)

Peace be upon you and God's mercy and blessings, for ever and ever!

My Dear, Loyal, Devoted Brothers !

Since I have received telegraphs and letters from many places for the festival and since I am very ill, the leading students of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ, my heirs, will have to congratulate both themselves and those close brothers of mine in my place. We also offer congratulations on the great festival of the world of Islam, the eve of which we are now celebrating, and on the establishing in the newly formed Islamic states of Islamic unity, which is beginning to unfold in Asia and Africa and makes four hundred million Muslims into brothers to one another and helpers, both material and moral and spiritual, and the sacred laws of the All-Wise Qur'an being taken as fundamental in those new Islamic states, Together with many signs appearing that the Qur'an, which among all religions bases all its injunctions and truths on reason and proofs, will on its own smash the emerging absolute disbelief, bringing about this coming festival for the future of humanity. We therefore congratulate with our whole life and spirit the students of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ and all the Nur students on their working to publish the Risale-i Nur, both at home and abroad, in Turkish and Arabic, and a significant section of the religious Democrats for their support of the Risale-i Nur's free dissemination.