and harm it. Anyway, the Risale-i Nur has taught us true sincerity and renunciation of the ego, and always knowing oneself to be faulty, and not being boastful. We show the believers the Risale-i Nur's collective personality, not ourselves. We are grateful to those who point out our faults to us and tell us of them, on condition that is indeed the case, and we utter a prayer for them. We are thankful if a scorpion is brushed off our neck before it stings us. Similarly, we accept our faults and are grateful, but on condition we are not told out of ill will and obduracy, and it does not assist innovations and misguidance. ∗∗∗
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My Dear Brothers !
Just as with the lines: "And through the Supreme Sign save me from sudden death!" Imam 'Ali (May God be pleased with him) miraculously foretold that because of The Supreme Sign the students would be overtaken by disaster, but that through its grace they would emerge safe and sound; so too, the free circulation of the hundreds of printed copies of The Supreme Sign from the Risale-i Nur and its becoming more firmly established was the chief reason for three spells of abundant mercy and rainfall. Similarly, just as like almsgiving, up until now the Risale-i Nur has been a means of repulsing calamities as has been shown by many signs and incidents; so too, the The Supreme Sign and its friends gaining their freedom will turn out to be a means of repulsing calamities and deliverance from those at our throats, who supposing us to be without support obtain an awesome power and lie in wait together with their partisans in order to overpower us. Moreover, it was imparted to my heart that just as in one respect Imam 'Ali's (May God be pleased with him) lines, "Through the name of Moses's staff the darkness will be dispersed" intend The Supreme Sign; so too they coincide with the eleven Topics of Denizli Prison's Fruits, The Conclusive Proof, and exactly with the eleven miracles of The Staff of Moses and its eleven proofs, and show that they are under his gaze.
That is to say, like Moses's staff, The Fruits of Belief will silence many pharaohs and defeat them. Our heroic, blessed brothers who had The Supreme Sign printed performed an invaluable service for the Risale-i Nur. And with it, the services of the late Hâfız Ali are perpetuated. ∗∗∗