up the way to the Risale-i Nur's free dissemination. This last year, I have included you and those working with you in my prayers and spiritual gains, together with such heroes of the Risale-i Nur as the late Hâfız Ali and Husrev, and so it will continue. Every minute on the way here, a day, you have made me indebted to you as though you were engaged in the Risale-i Nur work. In addition, I shall never forget as long as I live the person known as the Just Judge and those working with him, for the true justice they dispensed. I have included them in my spiritual gains this last six or seven months.

I am going to reply to my brothers about the part of the Risale-i Nur they delivered to me; let them write out all of it; I give it to them as a gift. For from now on they shall have a full share of the work. I have decided to look on the town of Denizli as the counterpart of my native town, and to include their dead and the living believers in the spiritual gains of both myself and of the Risale-i Nur students. I look on Denizli Prison as a school of examination, and I send greetings to all those concerned with us both in the town and in the prison, and especially to the board of judges, from whom we received true justice, and we pray for them. ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers !

I no longer have any doubts at all that not only ourselves and Anatolia and the world of Islam applaud the Risale-i Nur's liberty, a consequence of this work of ours; the universe itself is gratified and the atmosphere and skies applaud it, For despite the severe need, for three or four months no rain fell, but then Denizli Court's decision to return the copies of the Risale-i Nur coincided with [rain falling on] the Night of Regâib, just like on the Night of the Ascension, showing that the Risale-i Nur is an instance of divine mercy. Then the mercy of rain falling in Emirdağ together with the accolades of the angel of thunder coincided with the decision to hand over the Risale-i Nur. Then the time of its being handed over a week later to the deputy in Denizli coincided with abundant rain falling in this region on the eve of Friday, just like the coinciding of the rain with the Nights of Regâib and the Ascension. All these coincidences (tevâfukat) made one feel quite certain that just as the coinciding of four earthquakes with the seizure of the Risale-i Nur and its imprisonment was an objection on the part of the earth; so in the past four months the abundant rain which fell in the region of Emirdağ only on the eves of three Fridays, those of the