Significant mysteries appeared, but it was not written clearly and openly so as to avoid worldly matters. If you like, you can add it as a supplement to the Addendum at the end of the Eleventh Topic. [^15] You can write it out, as well as the piece on Sura al-Falaq (Q 113), as addenda to the treatise, The Miraculousness of the Qur'an (İ'caz-ı Kur'an Risalesi).

[^15]:See, The Staff of Moses (Istanbul: Sözler Publications, 2011), 88-90. The Addendum referred to here was added to the end of the Conclusion of the Eleventh Topic of The Fruits of Belief. [Tr.]

My brothers! Don't be anxious, it seems absolutely certain to me that we are the recipients of grace and that outside our own will and power we are being employed by a hidden hand in a most important task. On numerous occasions we have manifested the meaning of the verse: "It may be that you detest a thing, but it is good for you"(Q 2:216). In this work, the hardships are few and the recompense, great. ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers !

I have received your gifts, like felicitous fruits of Paradise, and your good news from the region of Denizli. The many tasks I have on hand at the moment do not allow me to say much; I have had to cut this short and write quickly since the person who brought it is leaving at once.

Firstly: The one thousand three hundred and forty-four for "a handhold most sure" (Q 2:256) at the beginning of the piece is wrong. But if the two hamzas and the elongation are not counted it is not wrong; it is most meaningful. One thousand three hundred and forty-seven is correct, which was anyway written at the end of the piece. The remaining section is both very signficant, but because it looks to this world and the "'alaq" in "Indeed man is overweening" (Q 96:6) looks to the idol in the piece, it has not been written for now.

And Secondly: The index of the Fourth Ray, about "For us God suffices" (Q 3: 173), should take the place of the Fourteenth Hope of the Treatise for the Elderly. It does seem to be appropriate and is indeed a hope.

Thirdly: The Twenty-Eighth Point of the Twenty-Eighth Flash should be placed at the end of the Fifteenth Word, not in the same index, for they discuss the same truths.

Fourthly: I have corrected the Flashes [Collection] that the late Hâfız Ali wrote out. God willing, it will be sent to you soon,