there and are in the service of our beloved Master, and I congratulate them on the festival. I kiss our beloved Master's hands, and the eyes of our brothers.
The Enduring One, He is the Enduring One!
Your truly faulty and ill student,
Mehmed Feyzi ∗∗∗
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In His Name, be He glorified!
My Dear, Loyal Brothers !
Someone wrote me a long letter in the new letters, but did not say who he was. He was doubtful about three points and had given them a wrong meaning, which inferred criticism, so was as though alerting us to them. Since according to our way we do not engage in dispute and argument, and since we are grateful to those who correctly point out our faults, I wanted to explain the truth concerning those three points and correct his error.
First Principle: On the wishes of some of the students, a number of Qur'anic verses which are the Risale-i Nur's master and source and for a long time past have been an invocation of Said were written out and put together in the form of a ḥizb. [^45] It was later printed, and neither the scholars of the experts' committees appointed by four or five courts, nor the committees of the Directorate of Religious Affairs and of the Istanbul fatwa office which scrutinize religious publications, nor any religious scholar have objected to it. They rather approved of it and applauded it. For foremost the Prophet's (UWBP) Companions and Usama, [^46] who is mentioned in Majmū'āt al-Aḥzāb, [^47] had collections of Qur'anic verses (ḥizb) of which they read a portion every day. In the same book and in the same volume of Majmū'āt al-Aḥzāb is a ḥizb of Imam al-Ghazali, and as is well-known, numerous saints (ehl-i velâyet) collated their own ḥizbs of suras and verses, suitable to their ways and outlooks.
[^45]:Ḥizb: portion of the Qur'an. Also, a collection of verses for invocatory purposes. [Tr.]
[^46]:Usāma ibn Zayd ibn Ḥārisa (d. ca. AH 54). See page 421 below.
[^47]:Majmū'āt al-Aḥzāb: the three-volume collection of invocations and supplications of figures associated with Sufism, compiled by the scholar and Naqshī/Khālidī shaykh, Ahmed Ziyaeddin Gümüshânevî (1813-1893), and published in Istanbul 1311/1893. [Tr.]