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All praise be to God, this year preoccupation with worldly matters has not caused your students in Isparta to be more negligent; our serious efforts to serve the Risale-i Nur continue. The feelings in our hearts of attraction to the Light is read on our faces, as though the hearts of these students of yours are filled with joy.
Our beloved Master! Of one accord, all your students declare: We can never thank Almighty God enough for bestowing on us all at once the incomparable beauties of being both students, scribes, and addressees of an incomparable Master in the service of the Risale-i Nur in which we are sincerely employed although we are nothing and undeserving, and being both publishers of it, and strivers in His way, and admonishers of the people, and worshippers of Himself. We recall that these thanks that we wish to offer, are a bestowal on our hearts through our Creator's grace, which fills our hearts with joy and happiness. The thankful life that the innocent people of Nurs passed during our Master's youth may be observed in our states of mind and behaviour. Endless thanks and praise be to the All- Glorious One, who through His grace and munificence saved us from the pits of absolute ignorance and the bogs of rebellion and ingratitude, and made us students of the most dazzling and shining light.
If our beloved Master had not previously explained to us the term "association (iktiran)," which refers to two bounties arriving together, he would have read much more about our gratitude from our pens, which interpret what is in our hearts.
Beloved Master! We look at ourselves and see that we are unable to receive what the Risale-i Nur tells us. Yet as our need increases, we observe the Compassionate Creator's merciful manifestations. Our Master's heart is a shining mirror, a place of manifestation and reflection.
Our Master's tongue is an elevated herald, a teacher, a guide.
Our Master's conduct is exemplary and offers the finest example and model. It displays what all types of people need.
Wrongful mankind, which for the past seven years has been emitting fire and brimstone, is today in an even more woeful and distressing state. Anxious at what tomorrow will bring, all the aware are glued to their radios in bewilderment. While expecting on the defeat of Japan in the east that the world would at last find peace and security, a threatening, corrupting movement appeared in the north. This has aroused fear and consternation in everyone. Imagining that they are going towards a dark future, they follow the radio with interest. But all praise be to God, with its elevated explanations and true instruction, the Risale-i Nur reassures our hearts.