A Letter From Husrev to Üstad Bediuzzaman Said Nursi Concerning the Tenth Topic

A Letter From Husrev[^40] to Üstad Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

Concerning the Tenth Topic

[^40]:Husrev Altınbaşak (1899-1977). One of Bediuzzaman's leading students, who wrote out numerous copies of the Risale-i Nur with his exceptionally fine handwriting. He also wrote copies of the Qur'an showing the coincidences (tawāfuqāt) of the word Allāh, an aspect of its miraculousness which Bediuzzaman 'discovered.' He was together with Bediuzzaman in the prisons of Eskişehir, Denizli, and Afyon. [Tr.]

My Dear and Esteemed Master,

Endless thanks be to Almighty God that we have received A Flower of Emirdağ, the Tenth Topic of the Fruits of Denizli, which has alleviated our grief at our two months' separation and our distress at having been unable to communicate, and enumerates the virtues of the repetition of the Qur'an's glorious, august, merciful and compassionate verses, which infuse our hearts with fresh life and breathe into our spirits a fresh breeze, and explains the necessity, significance, and reason for the repetitions, and is also a brilliant defence of the Risale-i Nur. In truth, the more we receive the scent of this flower, which is so deserving of praise and appreciation, the more it intensifies the yearning of our spirits for it. Just as how in the face of the difficulties of our nine months' imprisonment, the nine Topics of The Fruits of Belief showed their beauty by contributing to our release, so by pointing out the wonders of the concise miraculousness of the Qur'an, the Tenth Topic, their Flower, again exhibit their beauty.

Yes, my beloved Master, like the superb, delicate beauty of the rose makes the beholder forget the thorns on its stem, so this luminous Flower has made us forget the distress of those nine months; it has made it as nothing. The manner of its writing does not cloy those studying it; it astounds the mind. Of the many beauties it contains, by showing fully the value of the repetitions in the face of the treachery of 'simplifying' the Qur'an in people's eyes by translating it, it has set forth its universal loftiness. The Qur'an of Miraculous Exposition being proved to be fresh as though newly revealed, its followers adhering strongly to it every century and their perfect obedience to its commands and prohibitions; and its severe, awesome, and repeated threats to the oppressor in every century, and its compassionate and merciful regard for the oppressed; and among its threats which look to this century, the tyrants being made to cry out continuously for the last six or seven years at the heavenly hell which recalls a sample of deepest space; and the Risale-i Nur students being at the head of the oppressed this century; and their being delivered from their plights, personal and general,