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My Most Beloved, Compassionate Master!

Firstly: I congratulate you with my life and spirit on both the blessed Ten Nights and the holy festival, [^44] and respectfully kissing your hands, implore that you forgive my faults.

[^44]:The first ten nights of the month Dhu'l-Ḥijja, the month of the Hajj and twelfth month of the Hijri calendar. The Tenth day of Dhu'l-Ḥijja marks the first day of the 'Eid al-Aḍḥa, the Festival of Sacrifices.

Secondly: I offer endless thanks to the Most Merciful of the Merciful that He has bestowed on this sinful, common, powerless, faulty, unworthy, wretched, and lazy student of yours the sacred truths of belief and the Qur'an found in the Risale-i Nur, and the material and spiritual training of our beloved Master, All praise be to God, this is from the grace of my Lord!

My beloved Master! However much I offer thanks to my Compassionate Lord for continually making us aware of the effects of your spiritual training, it is insufficient. I would like to say the following, to make known the bounty: I do not complain about my illness for it was the cause of learning in fact and in practice the truths of the Risale-i Nur, which is the light of my eye, the joy of my spirit, and sustenance of my heart,

Such pieces as the Treatise for the Elderly, every Hope of which sprinkled thousands of lights of divine unity and gleams of solace on my spirit and heart, for the terrible physical and spiritual sicknesses I am suffering in this fortieth year of my life; and the Treatise for the Sick, every Remedy of which contains infinite cures; and the Twentieth Letter, which with its eleven sacred Words, discloses in wondrous and unparalleled fashion the sacred secrets of divine unity and from each sentence of which the lights of divine unity pour forth; and the Twenty-Fourth Letter, which solves the most difficult, profound, and abstruse mysteries of the truths of belief, which left all the philosophers and even the sages of Islam in bewilderment; and the Seventeenth Word, which is a sacred panacea for all the wounds of the heart — these treatises came to my aid and began to cure my ills. They also made me feel certain that I had been made ill by divine mercy so that both I myself and those who came to visit me because I was sick, could receive those lessons from the Risale-i Nur and the above treatises. It was as though our beloved, compassionate Master had written the Treatise for the Elderly for the youth and the Treatise for the Sick for the healthy.

Thirdly: I send greetings to every one of our worthy friends who are