tor's daughter." For the sake of that innocent child, he did not curse the prosecutor. Indeed, since the troubles he had inflicted had resulted in advertising the Risale-i Nur, that non-material miracle, and in furthering its dissemination, they had been transformed into mercy.

My Brothers! Perhaps I shall soon die. This age has another sickness; sicknesses like egotism, self-centredness, self-advertisement, the desire to pass one's life comfortably in accordance with the fantasies of modern civilization, and to be obsessed with this. The first and most important lesson the Risale-i Nur has learnt from the Qur'an is the necessity to give up egotism, selfishness, and self-advertisement, so that the saving of belief may be served with true sincerity. Thanks be to God, numerous people have emerged who have gained that maximum sincerity. There are many who sacrifice their egotism and reputation and good name for the smallest matter of belief. For example, when the enemies of one unfortunate student of the Risale-i Nur became friends, divine mercy made him lose his voice because their conversations with him increased. Also, the looks of those who consider him admiringly strike him like the evil eye, and cause him pain. Shaking hands even causes him distress as though he had received a blow. He was asked: "What is this condition of yours? You have millions of friends; why do you not meet with them for their sake?" He replied:

"Since our way is maximum sincerity, it necessitates preferring a single, eternal matter of belief to rule over the whole world even, if it were to be given, let alone egotism and selfishness. For example, in the midst of the enemy's fire in the front lines in the war, he gave greater importance to a single point of a single letter of a single verse of the All-Wise Qur'an, and ordered his scribe, Habib, when under the rain of the bullets: 'Take out the notebook!' and dictated that point to him on horseback. That is to say, he did not abandon a single letter or point of the Qur'an in the face of the enemy bullets; he preferred it to saving his own life."

We asked that brother of ours where he had learnt such extraordinary sincerity. He said: From two points:

The First is the Glory of the World (Upon whom be blessings and peace) commanding in a Hadith, despite the enemy's assault at one of times of the prescribed prayers during the Battle of Badr, the most wondrous battle in the history of Islam, that half of the mujāhids should lay aside their arms and join the congregation, so as not to be deprived of the benefits of the congregation, and that they should pray two rakats and then the other half should do likewise. Since there is permission to do this in battle, and since the benefit of praying in congregation has been established by the Prophet's (UWBP) practices, complying with that practice was