If the doublings are counted and if the hamzas which are not read and the yā' in the fi, which is not read, are not counted, it makes exactly one thousand three hundred and sixty-two, indicating this year.

If the doubling in "min an-nār" is counted as one nūn and one lām, it makes one thousand three hundred and forty-two, coinciding exactly with the date of the First World War, which gave rise to terrible dissembling.

If the doubling is counted as two nūns, and the silent hamzas and the yā' are also counted, it makes one thousand three hundred and sixty-six, and coincides with a difference of four with the jafr value of the word "darknesses," which is the lowest level of this dark dissembling and is compared with "light (nūr)" in many verses.

If the silent letters are counted and the doubling in an-nār is a lām, it makes one thousand three hundred and six exactly pointing the finger at and coinciding with the date of the terrible storms of disbelief and dissembling.

Yes, two rā's is four hundred; three fā's and two lāms, three hundred; one qāf, two doubled nūns, three hundred; one mīm, one sīn; the other mīm, one yā', one nūn, that's one hundred, too; two nūns, that's a hundred as well; and the total, one thousand three hundred. One lām, one kāf, fifty; a doubled dāl, eight; and two long ā's, two hamzas, four; and the total is one thousand three hundred and sixty-two. The other three numbers can be compared with this.

I also looked carefully at pages twelve and thirteen and I saw that they correspond so closely to the Risale-i Nur and its students that they have not only a symbolic and indicative meaning, but also look particularly to the present century quite explicitly, including it as a singular element in its universal meaning. I understood this with certainty and offered endless thanks. If the calamities that have befallen us up to now in this work with the Risale-i Nur had been a hundred times worse, it still would have been nothing; we are the winners. With the thought that by smashing our unimportant ephemeral glass fragments, those calamities are gaining for us everlasting diamonds in the hereafter, I knew that we should be pleased and offer thanks in patience.

Furthermore, I can give you the good news that their eighth attempt to poison me has again come to nothing. The guarantee of the Ghawth al-A'zam, [^18] "Indeed you are protected under the eye of divine grace" has once again been fulfilled.

[^18]:Shaykh 'Abd al-Qādir al-Gilāni (d. 561/1165-6). Hanbalite theologian, preacher, and Sufi, after whom the Qadiriyya Order was named. [Tr.]

I send greetings to each and every one of my brothers and pray for them