reward for them. This transforms the pain arising from compassion into pleasure, for to demonstrate compassion greater than divine mercy is meaningless and unjust. This was not merely a salve for me, but a healing remedy. Moreover, in the face of the pain at losing at the end of my life an invaluable spiritual treasury, I shared in the mystery of the spiritual partnership of all the select Nur students with all their good works and prayers in the name of all; and I participated in the supplications and expressions of divine unity uttered by the congregations of all beings and living creatures, in the Fatiha and tashahhud in the prayers (ṣalāt), as explained in The Shining Proof (el-Hüccetü'z-Zehrâ) and A Key to the World of Light (Nur Anahtarı); and since the elements earth, air, water, and light are all tongues, I joined in the gifts of life that emerge from the earth and water, and the praise and worship proceeding from the air, the beautiful words, material and otherwise, uttered by the light, and the thanks and praise for all the bounties in the universe and the universal worship and seeking of help of all creatures, especially living creatures, in the Fatiha and tashahhud in the prayers; and I accompanied all the people of truth and the believers who travel the right path and declared "Amen!" to their prayers and supplications. The universal mystery of participating in all the above came to my assistance that night and was such a panacea for the grievous spiritual sickness I was suffering at being unable to perform my worship in my sick, weak, despairing state, that I experienced a spiritual joy that in truth I had not found in my healthiest states in the time of my youth and in my most pleasurable invocations. I offered endless thanks and was resigned to that awful illness. I exclaimed: "All praise be to God to the number of all the seconds and minutes of Ramadan in all time!"

The Enduring One, He is the Enduring One!

Your brother,

S a i d   N u r s i ∗∗∗

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In His Name, be He glorified!

Our Master says:

"I tell my dear brothers who wish to meet with me: As long as there is no necessity, I no longer have the endurance to meet with people, and cannot speak much owing to being poisoned, weakness, old age, and illness. But I tell you with all certainty that every part of the Risale-i Nur is a Said.