time than us. He is flying around like the angels and taking a look at everything." He turned his friend's woeful tears into happy smiles.

Exactly like that weeping child, in the grim situation of this sorrowful winter I received news of two deaths. One was my nephew, the late Fuad, who had both come first in advanced schools, and had published the truths of the Risale-i Nur. The second was my late sister, Hanım, a scholar who went on the Hajj and died while circumambulating the Ka'ba. The deaths of these two relatives made me weep like that of the late Abdurrahman, which is described in the Treatise for the Elderly. Then, through the light of belief I saw in my heart that the innocent Fuad and righteous Hanım had as companions angels and houris in place of humans and had been saved from the perils and sins of this world. Feeling overwhelming joy instead of that searing sorrow, I congratulated both them and Fuad's father, Abdülmecid, and myself, and I offered thanks to the Most Merciful of the Merciful. This has been included here as a prayer for mercy for the two departed.

All the comparisons and allegories in the Risale-i Nur describe the fruits of belief that have as their consequences happiness in this world and the next. By virtue of the happiness and pleasures of life they yield in this world, those universal and extensive fruits intimate that they will gain for man everlasting happiness, indeed, that they will produce shoots and develop in that way. Five of those numerous universal fruits have been written at the end of the Thirty-First Word as fruits of the Ascension, and five are included as examples in the Fifth Branch of the Twenty-Fourth Word.

We said at the beginning that each of the pillars of faith have numerous different fruits, even innumerable fruits, and that similarly, a single fruit of the totality of the fruits is vast Paradise, and another is eternal happiness, while another and perhaps the sweetest is the vision of God. Also there is a good description of how the fruits of belief yield happiness in both worlds, this world and the hereafter, in the comparison at the end of the Thirty- Second Word.

Evidence that belief in divine determining yields precious fruits in this world is the fact that the saying "those who believe in divine determining are saved from unhappiness" is widely known as a proverb. Two universal fruits of belief in divine determining are explained in the fine comparison at the end of the Treatise on Divine Determining, which is about two men who enter the lovely garden of a palace, and I myself in my own life have experienced thousands of times and understood that to not believe in divine determining destroys the happiness of this worldly life. But whenever, in