value in the letter I wrote in connection with its being returned to us, about our brother Hâfız Mustafa's work. His letter elucidates also the statements I made in my letters about premonitions, and is a powerful testament of Denizli testifying in favour of the Risale-i Nur, and as a scholar and retired teacher of the modern sciences of long standing, I consider his shining testimony to the Risale-i Nur to hold great importance. However, in my view, it would be appropriate if the parts concerning myself are either skipped or amended. Two or three passages should not be shown to everyone, so I have underlined them and sent the letter to you as an addendum to the Twenty-Seventh Letter or its supplements. You can write out and put this part of my letter at the beginning of his letter. Our brother Hasan Feyzi should not be offended at our skipping a number of sentences, for they are unnecessary for all the students, but may be left in some confidential copies.

Hasan Feyzi has entered the body of the Risale-i Nur's collective personality, which is as though directly a collective personality of the truths of belief and the Qur'an, and having assumed the dress of its members, addresses it with extraordinary praise and applause. As I looked at it, objections occurred to me and I thought it excessive, but then the reality of the Qur'an responded in meaning: "Don't concern yourself with the body and the dress; look to me! He is speaking of me and what he says is right!" So I stopped objecting. However, any eulogizing terms about the Risale-i Nur's interpreter that are either explicit, allusive, or indicative, or exceed his due should be moderated. He should feel no offence, for according to our way and in the face of others, especially those critical of us, such favourable views of my wretched self are not acceptable. ∗∗∗

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He (Bediuzzaman) is the Risale-i Nur's servant. He would have been a millionaire today if he had sought the world and accepted all the gifts and presents offered to him, and the alms and charity, donations and bequests. But just like 'Umar (May God be pleased with him), he said: "If I take on an excessive load, I shall never attain to Muhammad the Arabian (Upon whom be blessings and peace), the heart of the speaking cosmos and God's beloved, nor to his friends and those perfected persons who have attained to him. I would only get half way. Complying with the Prophet's (UWBP) reply to the dictum: "I created all the spheres, everything, for you, my beloved!," "I have abandoned all of them for you!" he abandoned the world and all that is in it, and love and passion, and even abandoned aban-