are now being disseminated in the main centres of the Islamic world and are meeting with praise and appreciation. A deputy minister from Pakistan who visited Turkey last year told the forty to fifty university students he was addressing:

"My brothers! I have found in Turkey what I was searching for in the Islamic world. Bediuzzaman belongs not only to you, but to the whole world of Islam. It will soon come to know and understand him. You should take a close look at the Risale-i Nur, for I am going to publish it among our ninety million Muslims. I had numerous worries about the world of Islam and numerous questions to ask the Master. I remained with him for only an hour, and just listening to him, I received answers to all my questions and all my anxieties evaporated. Now I am returning to Pakistan with good news concerning the Islamic world's future. I have studied the history of the Turks and of Islam. Numerous heroes and champions of Islam and patriots have emerged from among them. They performed enormous sacrifices in the way of serving their country and nation, and they received the rewards and recompense they deserved. They were all awarded the honours due to them. But for the last twenty or so years, Bediuzzaman, the Master, has composed and published these works for this nation's happiness in this world and the next, suffering indescribable torments and ill-treatment, to prevent the spread of anti-religious currents, and today in his house there is nothing, not even a lamp. He abandoned everything to serve religion and religion alone. Most certainly, the Islamic world will soon come to know this esteemed person and his works."

Yes, our Master is a person who is applauded and appreciated by an Islamic scholar and thinker like 'Ali Akbar Shah; and whose services are acknowledged by some of the Democrat deputies who say, "The Nur students who read Bediuzzaman's Risale-i Nur and receive instruction from it and publish it prevent the spread of communism in this country with their work. Seeing that our government is opposed to communism, we are grateful to the Nurjus for their services." With all its thousands of words and sentences, every single copy of all the parts of the Risale-i Nur testifies and points to our Master's services and the universal benefits of his twenty-five years of composition and dissemination. He took as his way, instruction in impotence and poverty and he teaches it to his students. Thus, while this esteemed person whose universal services we have briefly outlined above is most deserving of the respect, love, and praise of all the believers and he should be accepted as such, he has consistently avoided the genuine respect and sincere applause of those coming to visit him, who reading the lessons of the Risale-i Nur have seen its knowledge and proofs to be superior in its