doning, and dedicated all of his efforts and endeavours and his life to spreading the lights of the Qur'an. Because of this, all the difficulties he suffered are now mercy, and all the services he performed, wisdom. He revealed the beauty on the face of glory and the world was transformed into a flower-bed of perfection.

One unaware that His favour and ire are the same, suffers torment;

Be delivered from that torment! He who is sovereign, knows us.

Like Niyazi Misri, [^38] the interpreter here saw everything to be good, turned a droplet into an ocean, non-being into man, and caused his light to rule the world. The fact he was called "Kurdi," and with the inversion and omission in the word "ya mudrikan" in the qasida of Imam 'Ali (May God be pleased with him) alluded to the word "Kurd," does not indicate that he was actually a Kurd, nullifying his descent from the Prophet (UWBP) (lit., his being a sharif and a sayyid). This cognomen is merely to announce to the world his being the Risale-i Nur's interpreter, who was born and grew up in Kurdistan and became famous with the name; it is not to prove his Kurdishness. His knowing Kurdish and wearing local dress and appearing thus was to conceal and hide himself; in my view, his purpose was not to deny his true identity and nationhood. It must be indeed meaningful and full of wisdom that he had great love for the Turkish nation, which for centuries served the World of Islam and humanity and Mecca and Medina, and that he spent and large portion of his life together with the Turks.

[^38]:Niyazi Misri (d. 1105/1694) was born in Malatya in eastern Anatolia. He studied in al-Azhar in Cairo, where he embraced Sufism. He returned to Anatolia and gained fame as a holy man, and for his poetry and knowledge of the occult sciences and his prophecies of the future.

O Lord!

For the sake of Your noble beloved,

For the sake of the blood spilt at Kerbela,

For the sake of the eyes weeping at separation,

For the sake of the face dragged through the dust of love,

Grant victory to the Risale-i Nur, to Ustad, and to Islam. Amen!

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Their intention is to extinguish God's light [by blowing] with their mouths; but God will complete [the revelation of] His light, even though the unbelievers may detest [it] (Q 61:8).

Respected Ustad!

I wrote these pieces with the Risale-i Nur's hand, pen, and tongue, a