God willing, the Nur Schools will secure in five to ten weeks the results the old medreses secured in five or ten years, and so it has been doing for the last twenty years.
Our Master has dedicated to the Risale-i Nur as a Nur School, the house he lived in for nine years in Barla, This was the first Nur School and the seed of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ, which extends over six provinces. And now, following this, Nur study centres are being opened in both Isparta and surrounding towns and villages, and in Diyarbakir and the east.
The Risale-i Nur being read in this way in such places gains for those who persist in doing this and those who study it the honour of being students of the religious sciences (talebe-i ulûm). Some authoritative scholars (müçtehid) have stated that the actions of such students and even their sleep may be counted as worship.
Thirdly: The fact that the first radio broadcast of the Risale-i Nur to Anatolia and the Islamic world coincided with the Night of Acquittal, is a sign and indication presaging great good for this country and the Islamic world, favouring the Risale-i Nur.
The Enduring One, He is the Enduring One!
Your brothers ,
Tahirî, Zübeyir, Sungur,
Ceylân, Bayram ∗∗∗
► (144) ◄
In His Name, be He glorified!
I am proclaiming this last will and testament to all my friends and my Nur brothers: Regarding myself, I no longer have the strength to fulfil the duties of the Risale-i Nur. And perhaps no need remains for me to do so. It is as though I can no longer endure to remain alive due to the many times I have been poisoned and the infirmity of old age and other ailments. Even if death, for which I so yearn, does not befall me, I am writing this will as though I have died to outer life,
Endless thanks be to the Most Compassionate and Merciful Creator that when studying sixty to seventy years ago, contrarily to custom the Old Said did not seek the charity of others, particularly when engaged in acquiring the sciences of belief, and despite his utter penury. During his childhood and youth, he tried to provide the subsistence of twenty to thirty