they do not neglect them and they read them to others, if possible, including the prison. If further copies are wanted, we can send them there.

Since Denizli has in a short time produced for us and for the Risale-i Nur heroic devotees and brothers, if I could I would pass the rest of my days in their blessed prison, perfectly happily. I send my greetings to all the friends who are concerned with us and whom we met in prison or assisted us like Beylerbeyi Süleyman and Tavaslı Mehmed Çavuş. They are always included in our spiritual gains and prayers. And I congratulate particularly all those named in Feyzi's letter and everyone on Ramazan and the Night of Power.

Truly, Milaslı Halil İbrahim is a Risale-i Nur student as firm and unshakeable as steel. His town should be proud of him. Also, the two brilliant versified pieces he and Hasan Feyzi wrote out of their regard for me which is a hundred times greater than I deserve, address the Risale-i Nur, and I accept them as their having composed them as a screen and incidental title to my unimportant self. How could I possess such qualities? I send many greetings to him, and to the Risale-i Nur's lawyer Ahmed Feyzi, and to their friends, and to our old heroic brother, Şefik, and I pray for them.

My brothers! Just as The Supreme Sign was composed in Ramadan, and as far as I know was printed in Ramadan and arrived in Isparta, and in Ramadan was read freely and entered the mosques to be read publicly; so this Ramadan, the Hizb-i Nuriye, which bears the meaning of "An hour's reflection is equal to a year's superorogatory worship," [^29] emerged from The Supreme Sign. Similarly, through the effulgence and blessings of The Supreme Sign, around two pages were imparted to my heart through the light of Ramadan which express the true meaning of the phrase "There is no god but God," which is recited thirty-three times in our (Shāfi'ī) tesbihat following the five daily prayers. [^30] Now I can read the whole of The Supreme Sign in ten minutes, and as it says in the introduction, at each degree in my imagination the universal tongue of the globe of the earth becomes my tongue and utters: "There is no god but God!" And the seas and mountains, the tongues of the elements and the classes of humanity become my tongues, proclaiming: "There is no god but God!" And as each declares "There is no god but God!" I declare it in the tongue of either the

[^29]:al-'Ajlūnī, Kashf al-Khafā', i, 310; al-Ghazālī, Iḥyā' 'Ulūm al-Dīn, iv, 409 (Kitāb al-Tafakkur); al-Haythamī, Majma' al-Zawā'id, i, 78. [Tr.]

[^30]:Bediuzzaman followed the Shāfi'ī school of law; the Ḥanafis do not include this phrase in their tesbihat.