are acting as official detectives, which is contrary to their profession. But tell them that I forgive all of them.
Sixthly: While expecting some means of venerating the Three Months on the Night of the Ascension, the search on account of the biography caused me intense sadness and grief. In accordance with the Hadith, "Almsgiving repulses calamities," [^82] the Risale-i Nur has become like almsgiving that repulses calamities from Anatolia, and when it is acquitted and given its freedom calamities are repulsed, but when it is attacked, calamities descend. There are a hundred events showing this; sometimes it is shown with earthquakes and storms, and this time, a cold spell I had never before witnessed with temperatures of nearly minus 18Y coincided with assaults and the searches.
[^82]:al-Maghribī, Jāmi' al-Shaml, i, 464, no. 1741.
Our Master is so ill, he could not speak any more. He told his assistant: "Send this to some friends and some officials for their information so that they do not worry."
Our very ill Master's servant
Yes, what my assistant has written is right
S a i d N u r s i ∗∗∗
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[The time has come to explain a strange mental state of our Master in the face of the public prosecutors.] [^83]
[^83]:I am presenting this absolutely true letter which our Master wrote for you. His student, Sungur
He said to me:
"Although during these thirty to forty years of oppression in prison and exile, I have been the object of the severity of the public prosecutors, who are charged with duties related to public law, known as "hukûkullah" (lit. God's law), I have never felt angry at them or offended. I realized that I did not see in them the faults that were the cause of their apparent anger. Then some time later I saw that the compassionate slaps of divine deter- mining were dealt at the hand of the prosecutors due to my own faults. Because the slaps came from divine determining, I accepted them with all my spirit and heart and I forgave the prosecutors' harshness, for they were only the apparent causes. Now, thanks be to God, some of the prosecutors,