Emirdağ Letters I — Emirdag Letters

Risale-i Nur Collection
The Words
The Letters
The Flashes
The Rays
Signs of Miraculousness
Staff of Moses
Emirdag Letters
Preface
Emirdağ Letters I
1. Is It at All Possible That If This Person Had Nurtured Worldly and Political Ambitions There Would Have Been No Indication or Sign of Them?
2. Why Didn't You Accept the Offer of the Post of General Preacher in the Eastern Provinces in Place of Shaykh Sanusi?
3. I Am More Than Happy If I Have to Sacrifice My Life in This World and in the Next for This Work; That Is, to Save the Believers From Absolute Misguidance
4. The Unanimous Report of the Ankara Experts' Committee
5. Denizli Court's Unanimous Decision
6. A Conversation with Myself
7. A Conversation with the Minister of Justice and the Judges Concerned with the Risale-i Nur
8. Don't Worry About Me. I Suffer No Distress Because I See a Trace of Divine Mercy in Every Difficulty and a Flash of Divine Favour
9. The Risale-i Nur Is a Certain Means of Preserving This Country From Calamities
10. The Parts of the Risale-i Nur with Which Our Martyr Is Happily Busy in the Intermediate Realm
11. I Have Received Your Gifts, Like Felicitous Fruits of Paradise, and Your Good News From the Region of Denizli
12. I Want You to Listen to the Complaints of Someone Who for Twenty Years Has Suffered Patiently in Silence
13. A Minor but Important Petition to the Cabinet and Directorate of Deputies
14. The Answer to a Question Asked on Behalf of Many People by a Very Young Risale-i Nur Student Who Assists Me
15. I Can Give You the Good News That Their Eighth Attempt to Poison Me Has Again Come to Nothing
16. On the Night of Regaib Such Mercy Poured Down That It Proved That the Prophet (Uwbp) Was Sent as a Mercy to All the Worlds and the Importance in the View of the Whole Universe of His Coming to This Visible World
17. Their Being Busy with My Person Aids the Risale-i Nur's Free Spread to an Extent
18. Why Don't You Display Any Interest in Currents Both at Home and Abroad and Especially in Political Groups?
19. How Can the Wonders (Kerâmet) Apparent in the Coincidences (Tevâfuk) Be Definitely Established?
20. The Risale-i Nur Will Have Students Conformably with Contemporary Conditions and the Nature of Things, and Foremost Innocent Children
21. Do Not Look to Worldly, Curiosity-Arousing Matters and Slacken in Your Duty
22. A Letter to Hâfız Mustafa, the Denizli Businessman Who Is Originally From Burdur
23. Not Only Ourselves and Anatolia and the World of Islam Applaud the Risale-i Nur's Liberty, a Consequence of This Work of Ours; the Universe Itself Is Gratified
24. I Offer Thanks to Almighty God That He Has Not Allowed Me to Like Myself and Has Informed Me of My Faults
25. Like Moses's Staff, the Fruits of Belief Will Silence Many Pharaohs and Defeat Them
26. Unobtrusively the Printed Copies of the Supreme Sign Have Performed Great Services
27. My Defence Against a Slight Criticism That Instances of Wonder-Working Should Not Be Advertised
28. I Have Told You of This Private Matter Because I Hold You to Be Abdulmecids and Abdurrahmans, My Old Students and Friends, My Brother and Nephew
29. It Has Become Clear That the Wondrous Parts of My Life Were a Chain of Wonders of the Risale-i Nur
30. The Curiosity and Fellow-Feeling That Are Intrinsic to Human Nature Drive You to Be Interested in Those Conflicts and Events to the Detriment of Your Essential, Obligatory Duties
31. In the Space of One or Two Years, the Denizli Heroes Have Performed Twenty Years' Service for the Risale-i Nur, and We Can Never Forget This Good Act of Theirs
32. Appendix to the Letter Disclosing a Divine Bestowal
33. I Have Now to Tell You About a State of Mind I Have so That You Are Not Offended for the Wrong Reason
34. The Greatest Bestowal and Duty at the Present Time Is Saving Belief, and Working in a Way That Strengthens Others' Belief
35. The Risale-i Nur Should Not Be Read Like Other Books and Sciences, for the Sciences of Certain Affirmative Belief That It Contains Do Not Resemble Other Sorts of Knowledge
36. Wrongful Mankind, Which for the Past Seven Years Has Been Emitting Fire and Brimstone, Is Today in an Even More Woeful and Distressing State
37. The Risale-i Nur's Way Is Not That of Sufism; It Is Reality; It Is a Manifestation of the Companions' Way
38. The Supreme Sign May Impart Lights of Belief as Effulgent as the Sun to Spirits
39. Relying on Your Intelligence, I Am Going to Talk Extremely Briefly, Since They Are Discussed in Various Places in the Risale-i Nur
40. You Should Look to My Very Faulty Person Only with Regard to Duty and Service, Not the Ranks You Have Accorded Me Out of Your Good Will Towards Me
41. At This Time, the People of Belief Are in Need of a Truth That Will Teach the Truths of Belief in Such a Way That Those Truths Are Made the Tool of Nothing; and No Motives or Purposes Can Sully Them
42. To the Chief of the General Police Headquarters in Ankara
43. To Afyon Police Headquarters
44. Ali Efendi, One of the Nur Students, Asks About a Qur'anic Verse About the Dissemblers
45. Don't Worry About the Humiliating Incident Recently; It Fizzled Out and Their Plans Came to Nothing
46. The Risale-i Nur Has Won Its Freedom with Its Shining, Powerful Truths and Has Defeated Its Enemies in One Respect
47. Total Steadfastness and Solidarity Are Necessary and to Be in No Way Shaken or Perturbed
48. We Met Only Briefly in the Mosque; I Have a Few Important Things to Say, for You to Bear in Mind
49. I Was Indeed Happy at Your Letters About the Risale-i Nur's Being Unrestricted and Spreading by Means of the Printing Press
50. An Addendum to the Supplement to the Twenty-Seventh Letter
51. 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
52. The Proofs of the Truths of Belief the Risale-i Nur Adduces Leave No Place for Doubts
53. The Reply to a Two-Pronged Question That I Have Been Asked Tacitly
54. I Offer Thanks to Almighty God That He Has Bestowed on the Risale-i Nur Such Loyal and Utterly Sincere Students Who Are Good Examples for Others
55. The Seeds They Sowed Produce Fruits in Their Places, Even If They Do Not Work at It
56. Don't Be Upset by This; My Situation Here Will Lead to Triumphs for the Risale-i Nur Students
57. I Have Received Numerous Letters Congratulating Me on the Festival, I Don't Have the Time to Answer All of Them, and My Circumstances Don't Allow It
58. He Credited Me with a Station Far Higher Than Is My Due, Instead of Ascribing It to the Risale-i Nur's Collective Personality; He Saw His Master to Be Very Brilliant in His Own Shining Mirror
59. Risale-i Nur Nurdan Bir Ibrişimdir Ki, Kâinat Ve Kâinattaki Mevcudatın Tesbihatları Onda Dizilmiş
60. Halil İbrahim’in (R.h.) Bir Şiiridir
61. Zekâi’nin Bir Şiiridir
62. The Risale-i Nur May Not Be Attacked Due to Its Allegedly Harming the Country and Government; They Can No Longer Get Anyone to Believe Such a Thing
63. Don't Be Upset at the Secret Agents Seizing the Treatise on Sincerity and the Copies of the Letters
64. To the Afyon Police Headquarters
65. A Moral Victory of the Risale-i Nur Was Witnessed Yesterday in Istanbul
66. We Are Absolutely Certain About What Our Master Has Written About the Fire; We Saw It with Our Own Eyes
67. The Risale-i Nur Never Beseeches; It Is They Who Should Beseech and Seek It. It Only Accepts Their Assistance When They Understand Its Worth and Become Customers for It
68. I Used to Request Sufficient Life to Work at Protecting and Disseminating the Risale-i Nur, and to Accompany and Preserve It. but Numerous Young Saids Perform Those Duties in Place of This One, Wretched, Elderly Said
69. The Plots They Have Been Hatching Against Me These Last Few Months Have Been Uncovered, and Thanks to Divine Protection, the Calamity Was Reduced Twentyfold
70. Siz Hem Bu Zamandaki Vehhamlıları, Hem Mesleğimizin Muktezası Olan Mahviyet Ve Ihlas Ve Terk-i Enaniyet Noktalarını Nazara Alınız
71. Hasan Feyzi’nin (Rahmetullahi Aleyh) Bir Şiiridir
72. The Intrigues of Those Who Want to Draw the Risale-i Nur Students Away From the Risale-i Nur and How They Should Be Answered
73. The Risale-i Nur Has No Connection with Politics. but Because It Has Smashed Absolute Disbelief, It Refutes Anarchy, Which Underlies It, and Absolute Despotism, Which Overlies It
74. Their Insulting Me and Treating Me Contemptuously Was a Secret Strategy Contrived Officially in Order to Destroy Public Regard for Me
75. My Words to the Afyon Police Chief
76. The Risale-i Nur Emerged From the Medrese and Opened up a Way to Reality Within Knowledge
77. Leave Those Who Cause Less Harm Than a Fly's Wing Alone, and Attend to the Harms of Eagles, or Dragons Even
78. Divine Providence and Assistance for Us and for the Risale-i Nur's Service Continue
79. Dünya Fânîdir, Binler Sene Yaşamak Olsa Bâkî Olan Hayat-ı Uhreviyenin Yanında Hiç Ender Hiç Mesabesindedir
80. My Last Will and Testament
81. I Now Have No Doubts That Your Prayers Has Been the Cause of Their Severe, Torturous Oppression Being Turned Into Providential, Beneficial Instances of Mercy for Me
82. Don't Feel Offended That This Time I'm Answering Your Five or Six Blessed Letters with a Single Confused One
83. If I Had the Power, I Would Happily Give You of My Life and Health
84. I Received an Admonishment to Disclose a Most Meaningful and Powerful Coincidence, an Indication of the Students' Loyalty and Explicit Wonder of the Risale-i Nur
85. Don't Be Upset, and Don't Worry! Just Help Me with Your Prayers
86. Isparta Will Be a Full Medresetü'z-Zehra and Al-Azhar University, and Has Begun to Be So, as Proved by the Unwavering Activities of the Heroic Students in These Harsh Conditions
87. Part of a Conversation with the Interior Minister
88. My Situation and the Difficulties Inflicted on Me Are Illegal in Six Respects, so in Order to Absolve Themselves From Future Responsibility, Those Who Torment Me Unjustly and Illegally, Are Searching for a Pretext
89. You Consult Among Yourselves and Do Whatever Is Necessary. but You Must Act with Caution and Without Fussing and Causing a Commotion
90. When I Read the Hulasatu'l-Hulasa, I See the Vast Universe as a Circle for the Remembrance of God
91. Don't Be Offended That, Because of My Indisposition, I Am Answering Your Numerous Letters with One, Single, Wretched Letter
92. By Writing Out This Collection, First and Foremost They Read Attentively Its Powerful Lesson in Belief, Which Silences the Philosophers and Induces Them to Believe, and so Gain a Spiritual Treasury
93. Sometimes an Error in a Letter or a Point Even, Can Cause a Valuable Meaning to Be Lost
94. Frequently I Travel Eagerly in the Imagination to Those Times and to the Places We Used to Make Excursions to in Kastamonu and Barla
95. That Means There Is No General Attack on the Risale-i Nur and Its Students; Only on Myself and the Treatises I Have with Me
96. The Risale-i Nur Speaks with Thousands of Tongues in My Place, and Demolishes Disbelief and Apostasy, and Defeats Anarchy
97. The Letter Written by the Late Salih Yeşil to the Interior Minister, Hilmi Uran
98. For Forty Days I Have Been Preoccupied with You as I Lie Ill. Owing to What I Have Heard and Imagined, It Seems to Me That You Must Be Suffering Some Indisposition
99. I Have Decided to Endure Every Sort of Difficulty. Moreover, I Don't Expect Any Kindnesses From Those Leaders
100. If That American Scholar of Standing Wants the Whole Risale-i Nur and Says He Will Publish It, We Can Give Him a Good Set After Having Consulted with You
101. The Officials Who Should Have Worked Most in Our Favour Were Employed and Used Against Us
102. Since the Risale-i Nur Is Superior to All the Currents in the World and Belongs to Everyone, It Cannot Follow or Enter One Side
103. The Extraordinary Divine Grace and Assistance That Were Apparent When, in Barla, I Performed All the Duties Connected with the Composition and Correction of the Written Pieces, Is Now to Be Observed in Husrev and His Helpers
104. The Matters You Asked About My Biography Will Here Be Indicated Very Briefly and Succinctly
105. A Hadith About the Famous Supplication of the Prophet (Uwbp), the Jaushan Al-Kabir, and Its Inordinate Merits and Value
106. Why Although It Should Have Been People From the Religious Schools Who Embraced the Risale-i Nur More Than Anyone, It Has Been Those of Them Who Have Assumed Official Duties That Have Held Themselves Most Aloof From It
107. I Shrink From Fame and Renown, Self-Advertisement, Self-Dependence, and Seeking the Good Opinion of Others; I Flee From Them and I Take No Pleasure in Praise and Acclaim
108. During These Three Blessed Months Abundant Sacred Wealth Will Be Added to the Nurjus' Spiritual Partnership, God Willing
109. Serving the Risale-i Nur Both Augments Through Its Blessings Means of Support and Peace of Heart, and Since It Is Worship in the Form of Reflective Thought, It Augments the Rewards of the Blessed Months
110. God Willing, It Will Continue to Be Printed and Published by Nurjus with Worthy Hands Like Pens, Without Needing Strangers and the Unworthy
111. The Risale-i Nur Is Necessary Every Day for This Nation, Like Bread
112. Since Everywhere Now Numerous Powerful Hands Are Stretched Out to Protect the Risale-i Nur and Publish It, Surely It Won't Be Laziness If I Rest up a Little Now
113. The Night of Acquittal This Year Is Going to Be Full of Blessings and Wonders for the Nurjus
114. The Reason I Have Accepted the Biography of My Kastamonu Life Written by Feyzi and Emin Without Altering the Excessive, Undeserved Praise It Contains
115. The Risale-i Nur Is a Means of Repulsing Disasters; If Its Service Is Interrupted, the Calamities Seize the Opportunity and Occur
116. A Conversation with the Emirdağ Police
117. If They Had Broken Down the Door of the Tiny Nur School Here, It Would Have Resulted in a Serious Blow and Would Not Have Been Merely a Warning
118. No Rain Had Fallen for a Month and Our Hearts Were Weeping at the Slackness That Had Overcome the Nurjus Due to the Known Assault
119. İnebolu Kahramanlarının Tebrik Ve Mektuplarında Iki Tevafuk Ve Iki Kuşun Garip Ziyaretleri Çok Manidardır
120. The Many Treatises That You Write Out Serve the Spreading of the Risale-i Nur in Your Place
121. Due to My Indisposition, I Have Been Reading the Awrad-i Baha'iyya From the Book and Not From Memory
122. I Earnestly Share in the Sufferings of Those Struck by the Calamity of the Isparta Fire
123. The Passage Which Elucidates 'were It Not for You, I Would Not Have Created the Spheres' Looks Directly to the Prophet (Uwbp). I Congratulate You with All My Life and Spirit for Teaching Children the Qur'an
124. The Innocent Children of the Sisters Who Have Visited Me on Many Occasions Are Within the Fold of the Nur Students' Children
125. At No Time in History Has There Been a Work Like the Risale-i Nur That Has Received so Little and so Light Criticism
126. The Machine Producing Out of Eight Hundred Pages One Thousand Five Hundred Copies and a Million Pages Is Most Certainly a Nurju and Scribe of a Thousand Pens Who Has Come to Our Assistance From the World of the Unseen
127. In the Face of All the Politicians' Torments, I Have Decided to Say 'for Us God Suffices and He Is the Best Disposer of Affairs' and to Abide in Patience
128. Because Compassion Is a Basic Principle of the Risale-i Nur and Women Are More Advanced in That Respect, They Embrace the Risale-i Nur Earnestly
129. I Am Telling You About My Illness Now, Which Is Severe and Has Resulted From an Attempt on My Life, Solely in Order to Receive Your Prayers
130. The Nur Students Have Never Interfered in Politics and Have Never Joined Any Party. for Belief Belongs to Everyone
131. Concerning the Verses in the Twenty-Fifth Word and the First Station of the Twentieth Word
132. The Risale-i Nur Strikes at Fiercely the Harmful Sort of Philosophy; It Does Not Bother with Beneficial, Rightly-Guided Philosophy
133. Since Worldly Goods Have No Place in My Personal Rules and I Do Not Accept Aid for Myself, I Do Not Know the Advantages of This Matter
134. A Letter Written Concerning the Eight Symbols (Rumuzat-i Semaniye)
135. We Congratulate with All Our Life and Spirit Salahaddin's Efforts in Establishing Relations Between the Medresetü'z-Zehra and Al-Azhar University
136. The Medresetü'z-Zehra of the Risale-i Nur Is an Offspring, a Pupil, of Al-Azhar University Which Is in Much Need of Its Kindness; It Is a Student Which Is the Target of Fierce Enemies' Assaults
137. I Felt Absolutely Certain That Hasan Feyzi Had Assumed the Greater Part of My Calamity Similarly to the Martyr Hafiz Ali (May God Have Mercy on Him), Performing an Act of Self-Sacrifice
138. To Depart for the Intermediate Realm Did Not Weigh Down on Me but Filled Me with Longing, Since Through the Light of the Risale-i Nur We Saw It to Be Truly Luminous
139. God Willing, He Will Produce Many People From the Heroes' Hearth of Denizli with the Spirit of Hasan Feyzi Who Will Espouse the Risale-i Nur and Publish It
140. In One Respect He Has Not Died; He Completed His Duty Hastily, and Was Released and Departed to Rest in the Intermediate Realm
141. I Am Declaring Only a Few of the Numerous Benefits in This World and the Next of Writing Out the Risale-i Nur
142. The Piece to Be Put at the Beginning of the Collections Duplicated on the Machines
143. The Duplication of Zülfikar by Machine Is Nearly Completed, Which Is a Good Fortune for the Nurjus, and for the Whole Country Even
144. If I Had Been in Mecca, I Would Have Had to Come Here in Order to Save Belief and Serve the Qur'an. for the Need Is Greatest Here
145. God Willing, Every Lira Given for Zülfikar Will Yield a Thousandfold Profit and Will Produce Thousands of Good Works
146. I Implore and Entreat the Most Merciful of the Merciful That He Bestow Numerous Hasan Feyzis on the Risale-i Nur and on Our Master Who Will Cause Them to Forget Their Grief
147. At This Distressing Time When My Soul Was Vexing Me and Triggering Impatience, This Piece Silenced It Completely and Induced Me to Offer Thanks
148. It Occurred to Me That I Should Write and Tell You About a Strange Dispute I Had with Myself
149. Now It Is Understood From Your Letter That He Was Making His Death Felt as a Wonder of His Sincere and Sacred Service
150. No Being Endowed with Consciousness in the Whole Universe Can Deny the All-Glorious Creator to Whom Every Particle of Existence Bears Witness
151. The Sunnis Opposed Discussion of the Dissension That Occurred at the Time of the Companions
152. It Is Only the Risale-i Nur That Will Halt the Current of Absolute Disbelief Descending From the North; Neither Politics nor Diplomacy Can Perform This Task
153. It Is Essential to Break off Minor Internal Hostilities When Powerful External Enemies Are Attacking
154. The Person You Saw with the Prophet (Uwbp) Was the Risale-i Nur and the Collective Personality of Its Students
155. We Should Not Interfere in His. I Said This and Was Consoled Both for Myself and for You
156. An Industrious Brother Who Is Younger Than Me Will Fulfil My Tasks for the Risale-i Nur After Me Like My Other Brothers, I Await My Death with a Perfectly Peaceful Heart
157. Marangoz Ahmed Describes the Pious Attitude of the School's Students Towards the Death of Haji Hafiz, the School's Master
158. Concerning the Heroes Who Have Served the Risale-i Nur Greatly
159. Those of the Hojas Who Displaying Unusual Courage and Enterprise, Enter the Fold of the Risale-i Nur, Are the Cause of Those of Them Who Don't Enter to Be Forgiven to a Degree
160. The Strength Yielded by the Genuine Mutual Support of the Select Students Should Not Be Less Than the Self-Sacrifice of a Wretched Person Like Myself, God Willing
161. I Look on Isparta as Blessed Together with Its Earth and Stones and All Its People, and Therefore Regard Its Administrators and Especially Its Police as Earnest Friends
162. Re'fet Bey's Blessed Nine-Year-Old Innocent Child Has Written Out the First Word From the Risale-i Nur
163. To Hilmi Bey, Former Interior Minister and Now General Secretary of the Republican People's Party
164. Part of the Conversation with the Interior Minister
165. Two High-Ranking Colonels and a Deputy Who Was a Party Inspector Visited Our Master
166. In This Stormy and Godless Century Humanity's Intense Need for the Qur'an Has Been Acknowledged and This Is Indeed a Great Qur'anic Event
167. The Risale-i Nur Does Not Seek Customers; the Customers Have to Seek It Out and Plead for It
168. We Congratulate Them and Their Teachers and Parents for Listening Innocently and Eagerly to the Truths of Belief of the Risale-i Nur
169. Owing to My Illness, I Am Unable to Correct and Moderate His Long Letter. the Excessive Praise of Me Needs to Be Either Excised or to Be Altered
170. Why Don't You Accept for Yourself the Powerful Good Opinions or a Rank or Position?
171. The Free Dissemination of the Risale-i Nur Leads to the Raising of Calamities, While Its Being Silenced and Attacked Leads to Their Visitation. This Has Even Been Proved in Court
172. The Miraculous Prediction of Sura Al-Fil
173. I Am Compelled by the Three Months Not to Consider This Until They Have Passed and the Main Collections Have Been Published, Even If Rule Over the Whole World Were to Be Given to Me
174. Don't Worry, Divine Providence Continues. God Willing, This New Assault Will Come to Nothing, and Even Will Assist in the Risale-i Nur's Conquests
175. A Policeman or Court Official with Strong Belief May Be as Beneficial for the Country and Nation as Ten Men
176. The Elevated Truth of the Risale-i Nur Does Not Stoop to Any Worldly Advantages, nor Can It Be Exploited for Them
177. The Conquests of Zulfikar and the Staff of Moses
178. All the Members of the Directorate of Religious Affairs Are Appreciative of the Works
179. I Went Out in the Carriage for a Couple of Hours to See the Flowers This Splendid Spring
180. You Are Trying to Study and to Learn the Qur'an. but the New Letters, Which You Know, Are Deficient, so as Far as Is Possible, It Is Better Not Read It in Them
181. For Two Reasons I Am in Severe Need of Your Spiritual Services and Your Prayers and the Assistance of the Spiritual Gains You Have Earned in My Place
182. The Staff of Moses and Zulfikar Have Been Presented to the Esteemed Ulema Residing in the Vicinity of the Immaculate Tomb of the Prophet (Uwbp)
183. There Are Numerous Obstacles Preventing the Physical Founding of the Medresetü'z-Zehra, so for Now It Consists of All the Nur Students
184. Once the True Nature of This World Is Understood, Only Everlasting Life and the Qur'an Can Heal the Wounds of Humanity Caused by the Collapse of Their Dreams
185. It Is Most Advantageous at This Time to Attract the Alevis to the Fold of the Risale-i Nur so That the Political Currents Do Not Profit From Their Natural Devotion and Self-Sacrifice
186. We Accepted on Account of the Paradisaical Ramadan Gift the Congratulations Written with the Blessed Pens Sent in the Name of All the Members of the Safranbolu and Eflani Nur Schools
187. The Shining Lamp Has Turned Out Beautifully and Perfectly Correct. It Is a New Lesson for the Medresetü'z-Zehra of the Greatest Importance
188. Both My Covert Enemies and My Soul Search Out My Weak Points so That by Means of Them They May Damage the Purely Sincere Service of the Risale-i Nur
189. Three Extraordinary Events Which Occurred During the Old Said's Adventurous Life Were Wonders of the Risale-i Nur, Which Was to Appear in the Future
190. The Country, Nation, and Government Have Intense Need for These Works
191. God Willing, These Nur Schools Will Secure in Five to Ten Weeks the Results That the Former Medreses Produced in Five to Ten Years
192. Thanks to the Risale-i Nur's Conquests and on the Orders of Ankara, Your Confiscated Books Have Been Returned to You, Which Is a Great Victory
193. Having Been Defeated in Every Respect, Those Opposed to the Risale-i Nur Are Pursuing a Plan That on the Face of It Looks Unpleasant for Us, but in Reality Is More Beneficial for the Risale-i Nur
194. We're Within the Fold of the Risale-i Nur; Don't Leave Us and Go!
195. A Fine Point Concerning 'he': The Air Particles with Their Duties Point to the Existence and Unity of God
196. At No Time Upto the Present Has Any Work Spread so Effectively in Such Difficult Conditions
197. The Meaning of True Sincerity in the Risale-i Nur's Way Does Not Permit It to Be Made the Tool of Anything Other Than Belief and the Truths of the Qur'an
198. The Risale-i Nur Cannot Be Concealed; It Does Not Resemble Other Books; No One Can Claim Possession of It. Wherever It Is Found, It Declares: I Proceed From the Light!
199. The Unfolding and Conquests of the Risale-i Nur Are Slowly Increasing, Covering Numerous Officials
200. Concerning the Miraculous Qur'an
201. As the Price of the Ratifying Stamp, I Have Obtained Fifty Copies of a Guide for Youth From the Publishers, and I Am Sending Them to You
202. Besides Congratulating You on the Ten Nights, We Want to Tell You About Two Wonders of the Risale-i Nur
203. This Piece Is to Be Added to the End of a Fine Point Concerning 'he'
204. The Risale-i Nur's Conquests Continue Both at Home and Abroad
205. Unnecessary, Fleeting, Sinful Pleasures Yield Only Pains, so I Have No Desire for Them
206. In the Way of the Risale-i Nur There Can Be No Egotism of Any Sort, or Personalities, or the Desire for Personal Rank or for Winning Fame and Renown
207. Good News From the Islamic World and Bismarck's Piece
208. In Three Important Centres of the Risale-i Nur, Three Barbers Are Performing Great Services for It in Such a Way That They All Resemble Each Other, Together with Their Children
209. To Deem It a Crime to Duplicate in the Old Letters a Number of Treatises That Have Been Returned and Impose a Sentence Is a Matter of Serious Concern for the Judiciary and Insults Its Honour
210. The Risale-i Nur Suffices for Its True Students. They Should Be Content with It and Not Set Their Sights on Other Honours or Benefits
211. Numerous Experiences Have Made It Understood That Unreciprocated Presents Make Me Ill
212. Having Sold Some Unnecessary Foodstuffs and Clothes, I Am Sending You as the Price of the Flashes Collection a Truly Blessed Hundred Liras Together with Ten Blessed Liras From My Salary From the Daru'l-Hikmet
213. A Sign of the Risale-i Nur's Acceptance by Mecca and Medina
214. We Learnt That the Incident This Time Was Due to Their Unfounded Suspicions and Making Mountains Out of Molehills
215. Legally, They Should Have Taken My Statement but They Neglected to Do So, so I Am Now Presenting My Statement to the Collective Personality of the Judiciary and for the Information of the Interior Minister
216. Endless Thanks Be to Almighty God That This Last Attack, and Very Extensive and Suspicious Assault, Has Lessened Considerably
217. I Congratulate You with All My Life and Spirit on Your Success, and Steadfastness, and for the Wonder of the Alifs in the Twenty-Ninth Word Being Preserved When Written on the Waxed Paper
218. Addendum to the Petition Sent to the President, Which I Have Been Obliged to Write
219. Nevzad Bey, the Governor of Ankara, Attempted to Intervene Forcibly, but He Was Unsuccessful and He Also Received a Blow by Committing Suicide
220. The Addendum to the Statement Made While Being Interrogated in Emirdağ and Presented for Its Information to the Judiciary's Collective Personality and to the Interior Minister
221. In Egirdir, the Man Who Seized the Staff of Moses and Gave It to the Court, Himself Received a Prison Sentence of Two Years
Emirdağ Letters Ii
Comparisons of Belief and Disbelief
Rational Arguments

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Risale-i Nur Collection
The Words
The Letters
The Flashes
The Rays
Signs of Miraculousness
Staff of Moses
Emirdag Letters
Preface
Emirdağ Letters I
1. Is It at All Possible That If This Person Had Nurtured Worldly and Political Ambitions There Would Have Been No Indication or Sign of Them?
2. Why Didn't You Accept the Offer of the Post of General Preacher in the Eastern Provinces in Place of Shaykh Sanusi?
3. I Am More Than Happy If I Have to Sacrifice My Life in This World and in the Next for This Work; That Is, to Save the Believers From Absolute Misguidance
4. The Unanimous Report of the Ankara Experts' Committee
5. Denizli Court's Unanimous Decision
6. A Conversation with Myself
7. A Conversation with the Minister of Justice and the Judges Concerned with the Risale-i Nur
8. Don't Worry About Me. I Suffer No Distress Because I See a Trace of Divine Mercy in Every Difficulty and a Flash of Divine Favour
9. The Risale-i Nur Is a Certain Means of Preserving This Country From Calamities
10. The Parts of the Risale-i Nur with Which Our Martyr Is Happily Busy in the Intermediate Realm
11. I Have Received Your Gifts, Like Felicitous Fruits of Paradise, and Your Good News From the Region of Denizli
12. I Want You to Listen to the Complaints of Someone Who for Twenty Years Has Suffered Patiently in Silence
13. A Minor but Important Petition to the Cabinet and Directorate of Deputies
14. The Answer to a Question Asked on Behalf of Many People by a Very Young Risale-i Nur Student Who Assists Me
15. I Can Give You the Good News That Their Eighth Attempt to Poison Me Has Again Come to Nothing
16. On the Night of Regaib Such Mercy Poured Down That It Proved That the Prophet (Uwbp) Was Sent as a Mercy to All the Worlds and the Importance in the View of the Whole Universe of His Coming to This Visible World
17. Their Being Busy with My Person Aids the Risale-i Nur's Free Spread to an Extent
18. Why Don't You Display Any Interest in Currents Both at Home and Abroad and Especially in Political Groups?
19. How Can the Wonders (Kerâmet) Apparent in the Coincidences (Tevâfuk) Be Definitely Established?
20. The Risale-i Nur Will Have Students Conformably with Contemporary Conditions and the Nature of Things, and Foremost Innocent Children
21. Do Not Look to Worldly, Curiosity-Arousing Matters and Slacken in Your Duty
22. A Letter to Hâfız Mustafa, the Denizli Businessman Who Is Originally From Burdur
23. Not Only Ourselves and Anatolia and the World of Islam Applaud the Risale-i Nur's Liberty, a Consequence of This Work of Ours; the Universe Itself Is Gratified
24. I Offer Thanks to Almighty God That He Has Not Allowed Me to Like Myself and Has Informed Me of My Faults
25. Like Moses's Staff, the Fruits of Belief Will Silence Many Pharaohs and Defeat Them
26. Unobtrusively the Printed Copies of the Supreme Sign Have Performed Great Services
27. My Defence Against a Slight Criticism That Instances of Wonder-Working Should Not Be Advertised
28. I Have Told You of This Private Matter Because I Hold You to Be Abdulmecids and Abdurrahmans, My Old Students and Friends, My Brother and Nephew
29. It Has Become Clear That the Wondrous Parts of My Life Were a Chain of Wonders of the Risale-i Nur
30. The Curiosity and Fellow-Feeling That Are Intrinsic to Human Nature Drive You to Be Interested in Those Conflicts and Events to the Detriment of Your Essential, Obligatory Duties
31. In the Space of One or Two Years, the Denizli Heroes Have Performed Twenty Years' Service for the Risale-i Nur, and We Can Never Forget This Good Act of Theirs
32. Appendix to the Letter Disclosing a Divine Bestowal
33. I Have Now to Tell You About a State of Mind I Have so That You Are Not Offended for the Wrong Reason
34. The Greatest Bestowal and Duty at the Present Time Is Saving Belief, and Working in a Way That Strengthens Others' Belief
35. The Risale-i Nur Should Not Be Read Like Other Books and Sciences, for the Sciences of Certain Affirmative Belief That It Contains Do Not Resemble Other Sorts of Knowledge
36. Wrongful Mankind, Which for the Past Seven Years Has Been Emitting Fire and Brimstone, Is Today in an Even More Woeful and Distressing State
37. The Risale-i Nur's Way Is Not That of Sufism; It Is Reality; It Is a Manifestation of the Companions' Way
38. The Supreme Sign May Impart Lights of Belief as Effulgent as the Sun to Spirits
39. Relying on Your Intelligence, I Am Going to Talk Extremely Briefly, Since They Are Discussed in Various Places in the Risale-i Nur
40. You Should Look to My Very Faulty Person Only with Regard to Duty and Service, Not the Ranks You Have Accorded Me Out of Your Good Will Towards Me
41. At This Time, the People of Belief Are in Need of a Truth That Will Teach the Truths of Belief in Such a Way That Those Truths Are Made the Tool of Nothing; and No Motives or Purposes Can Sully Them
42. To the Chief of the General Police Headquarters in Ankara
43. To Afyon Police Headquarters
44. Ali Efendi, One of the Nur Students, Asks About a Qur'anic Verse About the Dissemblers
45. Don't Worry About the Humiliating Incident Recently; It Fizzled Out and Their Plans Came to Nothing
46. The Risale-i Nur Has Won Its Freedom with Its Shining, Powerful Truths and Has Defeated Its Enemies in One Respect
47. Total Steadfastness and Solidarity Are Necessary and to Be in No Way Shaken or Perturbed
48. We Met Only Briefly in the Mosque; I Have a Few Important Things to Say, for You to Bear in Mind
49. I Was Indeed Happy at Your Letters About the Risale-i Nur's Being Unrestricted and Spreading by Means of the Printing Press
50. An Addendum to the Supplement to the Twenty-Seventh Letter
51. 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
52. The Proofs of the Truths of Belief the Risale-i Nur Adduces Leave No Place for Doubts
53. The Reply to a Two-Pronged Question That I Have Been Asked Tacitly
54. I Offer Thanks to Almighty God That He Has Bestowed on the Risale-i Nur Such Loyal and Utterly Sincere Students Who Are Good Examples for Others
55. The Seeds They Sowed Produce Fruits in Their Places, Even If They Do Not Work at It
56. Don't Be Upset by This; My Situation Here Will Lead to Triumphs for the Risale-i Nur Students
57. I Have Received Numerous Letters Congratulating Me on the Festival, I Don't Have the Time to Answer All of Them, and My Circumstances Don't Allow It
58. He Credited Me with a Station Far Higher Than Is My Due, Instead of Ascribing It to the Risale-i Nur's Collective Personality; He Saw His Master to Be Very Brilliant in His Own Shining Mirror
59. Risale-i Nur Nurdan Bir Ibrişimdir Ki, Kâinat Ve Kâinattaki Mevcudatın Tesbihatları Onda Dizilmiş
60. Halil İbrahim’in (R.h.) Bir Şiiridir
61. Zekâi’nin Bir Şiiridir
62. The Risale-i Nur May Not Be Attacked Due to Its Allegedly Harming the Country and Government; They Can No Longer Get Anyone to Believe Such a Thing
63. Don't Be Upset at the Secret Agents Seizing the Treatise on Sincerity and the Copies of the Letters
64. To the Afyon Police Headquarters
65. A Moral Victory of the Risale-i Nur Was Witnessed Yesterday in Istanbul
66. We Are Absolutely Certain About What Our Master Has Written About the Fire; We Saw It with Our Own Eyes
67. The Risale-i Nur Never Beseeches; It Is They Who Should Beseech and Seek It. It Only Accepts Their Assistance When They Understand Its Worth and Become Customers for It
68. I Used to Request Sufficient Life to Work at Protecting and Disseminating the Risale-i Nur, and to Accompany and Preserve It. but Numerous Young Saids Perform Those Duties in Place of This One, Wretched, Elderly Said
69. The Plots They Have Been Hatching Against Me These Last Few Months Have Been Uncovered, and Thanks to Divine Protection, the Calamity Was Reduced Twentyfold
70. Siz Hem Bu Zamandaki Vehhamlıları, Hem Mesleğimizin Muktezası Olan Mahviyet Ve Ihlas Ve Terk-i Enaniyet Noktalarını Nazara Alınız
71. Hasan Feyzi’nin (Rahmetullahi Aleyh) Bir Şiiridir
72. The Intrigues of Those Who Want to Draw the Risale-i Nur Students Away From the Risale-i Nur and How They Should Be Answered
73. The Risale-i Nur Has No Connection with Politics. but Because It Has Smashed Absolute Disbelief, It Refutes Anarchy, Which Underlies It, and Absolute Despotism, Which Overlies It
74. Their Insulting Me and Treating Me Contemptuously Was a Secret Strategy Contrived Officially in Order to Destroy Public Regard for Me
75. My Words to the Afyon Police Chief
76. The Risale-i Nur Emerged From the Medrese and Opened up a Way to Reality Within Knowledge
77. Leave Those Who Cause Less Harm Than a Fly's Wing Alone, and Attend to the Harms of Eagles, or Dragons Even
78. Divine Providence and Assistance for Us and for the Risale-i Nur's Service Continue
79. Dünya Fânîdir, Binler Sene Yaşamak Olsa Bâkî Olan Hayat-ı Uhreviyenin Yanında Hiç Ender Hiç Mesabesindedir
80. My Last Will and Testament
81. I Now Have No Doubts That Your Prayers Has Been the Cause of Their Severe, Torturous Oppression Being Turned Into Providential, Beneficial Instances of Mercy for Me
82. Don't Feel Offended That This Time I'm Answering Your Five or Six Blessed Letters with a Single Confused One
83. If I Had the Power, I Would Happily Give You of My Life and Health
84. I Received an Admonishment to Disclose a Most Meaningful and Powerful Coincidence, an Indication of the Students' Loyalty and Explicit Wonder of the Risale-i Nur
85. Don't Be Upset, and Don't Worry! Just Help Me with Your Prayers
86. Isparta Will Be a Full Medresetü'z-Zehra and Al-Azhar University, and Has Begun to Be So, as Proved by the Unwavering Activities of the Heroic Students in These Harsh Conditions
87. Part of a Conversation with the Interior Minister
88. My Situation and the Difficulties Inflicted on Me Are Illegal in Six Respects, so in Order to Absolve Themselves From Future Responsibility, Those Who Torment Me Unjustly and Illegally, Are Searching for a Pretext
89. You Consult Among Yourselves and Do Whatever Is Necessary. but You Must Act with Caution and Without Fussing and Causing a Commotion
90. When I Read the Hulasatu'l-Hulasa, I See the Vast Universe as a Circle for the Remembrance of God
91. Don't Be Offended That, Because of My Indisposition, I Am Answering Your Numerous Letters with One, Single, Wretched Letter
92. By Writing Out This Collection, First and Foremost They Read Attentively Its Powerful Lesson in Belief, Which Silences the Philosophers and Induces Them to Believe, and so Gain a Spiritual Treasury
93. Sometimes an Error in a Letter or a Point Even, Can Cause a Valuable Meaning to Be Lost
94. Frequently I Travel Eagerly in the Imagination to Those Times and to the Places We Used to Make Excursions to in Kastamonu and Barla
95. That Means There Is No General Attack on the Risale-i Nur and Its Students; Only on Myself and the Treatises I Have with Me
96. The Risale-i Nur Speaks with Thousands of Tongues in My Place, and Demolishes Disbelief and Apostasy, and Defeats Anarchy
97. The Letter Written by the Late Salih Yeşil to the Interior Minister, Hilmi Uran
98. For Forty Days I Have Been Preoccupied with You as I Lie Ill. Owing to What I Have Heard and Imagined, It Seems to Me That You Must Be Suffering Some Indisposition
99. I Have Decided to Endure Every Sort of Difficulty. Moreover, I Don't Expect Any Kindnesses From Those Leaders
100. If That American Scholar of Standing Wants the Whole Risale-i Nur and Says He Will Publish It, We Can Give Him a Good Set After Having Consulted with You
101. The Officials Who Should Have Worked Most in Our Favour Were Employed and Used Against Us
102. Since the Risale-i Nur Is Superior to All the Currents in the World and Belongs to Everyone, It Cannot Follow or Enter One Side
103. The Extraordinary Divine Grace and Assistance That Were Apparent When, in Barla, I Performed All the Duties Connected with the Composition and Correction of the Written Pieces, Is Now to Be Observed in Husrev and His Helpers
104. The Matters You Asked About My Biography Will Here Be Indicated Very Briefly and Succinctly
105. A Hadith About the Famous Supplication of the Prophet (Uwbp), the Jaushan Al-Kabir, and Its Inordinate Merits and Value
106. Why Although It Should Have Been People From the Religious Schools Who Embraced the Risale-i Nur More Than Anyone, It Has Been Those of Them Who Have Assumed Official Duties That Have Held Themselves Most Aloof From It
107. I Shrink From Fame and Renown, Self-Advertisement, Self-Dependence, and Seeking the Good Opinion of Others; I Flee From Them and I Take No Pleasure in Praise and Acclaim
108. During These Three Blessed Months Abundant Sacred Wealth Will Be Added to the Nurjus' Spiritual Partnership, God Willing
109. Serving the Risale-i Nur Both Augments Through Its Blessings Means of Support and Peace of Heart, and Since It Is Worship in the Form of Reflective Thought, It Augments the Rewards of the Blessed Months
110. God Willing, It Will Continue to Be Printed and Published by Nurjus with Worthy Hands Like Pens, Without Needing Strangers and the Unworthy
111. The Risale-i Nur Is Necessary Every Day for This Nation, Like Bread
112. Since Everywhere Now Numerous Powerful Hands Are Stretched Out to Protect the Risale-i Nur and Publish It, Surely It Won't Be Laziness If I Rest up a Little Now
113. The Night of Acquittal This Year Is Going to Be Full of Blessings and Wonders for the Nurjus
114. The Reason I Have Accepted the Biography of My Kastamonu Life Written by Feyzi and Emin Without Altering the Excessive, Undeserved Praise It Contains
115. The Risale-i Nur Is a Means of Repulsing Disasters; If Its Service Is Interrupted, the Calamities Seize the Opportunity and Occur
116. A Conversation with the Emirdağ Police
117. If They Had Broken Down the Door of the Tiny Nur School Here, It Would Have Resulted in a Serious Blow and Would Not Have Been Merely a Warning
118. No Rain Had Fallen for a Month and Our Hearts Were Weeping at the Slackness That Had Overcome the Nurjus Due to the Known Assault
119. İnebolu Kahramanlarının Tebrik Ve Mektuplarında Iki Tevafuk Ve Iki Kuşun Garip Ziyaretleri Çok Manidardır
120. The Many Treatises That You Write Out Serve the Spreading of the Risale-i Nur in Your Place
121. Due to My Indisposition, I Have Been Reading the Awrad-i Baha'iyya From the Book and Not From Memory
122. I Earnestly Share in the Sufferings of Those Struck by the Calamity of the Isparta Fire
123. The Passage Which Elucidates 'were It Not for You, I Would Not Have Created the Spheres' Looks Directly to the Prophet (Uwbp). I Congratulate You with All My Life and Spirit for Teaching Children the Qur'an
124. The Innocent Children of the Sisters Who Have Visited Me on Many Occasions Are Within the Fold of the Nur Students' Children
125. At No Time in History Has There Been a Work Like the Risale-i Nur That Has Received so Little and so Light Criticism
126. The Machine Producing Out of Eight Hundred Pages One Thousand Five Hundred Copies and a Million Pages Is Most Certainly a Nurju and Scribe of a Thousand Pens Who Has Come to Our Assistance From the World of the Unseen
127. In the Face of All the Politicians' Torments, I Have Decided to Say 'for Us God Suffices and He Is the Best Disposer of Affairs' and to Abide in Patience
128. Because Compassion Is a Basic Principle of the Risale-i Nur and Women Are More Advanced in That Respect, They Embrace the Risale-i Nur Earnestly
129. I Am Telling You About My Illness Now, Which Is Severe and Has Resulted From an Attempt on My Life, Solely in Order to Receive Your Prayers
130. The Nur Students Have Never Interfered in Politics and Have Never Joined Any Party. for Belief Belongs to Everyone
131. Concerning the Verses in the Twenty-Fifth Word and the First Station of the Twentieth Word
132. The Risale-i Nur Strikes at Fiercely the Harmful Sort of Philosophy; It Does Not Bother with Beneficial, Rightly-Guided Philosophy
133. Since Worldly Goods Have No Place in My Personal Rules and I Do Not Accept Aid for Myself, I Do Not Know the Advantages of This Matter
134. A Letter Written Concerning the Eight Symbols (Rumuzat-i Semaniye)
135. We Congratulate with All Our Life and Spirit Salahaddin's Efforts in Establishing Relations Between the Medresetü'z-Zehra and Al-Azhar University
136. The Medresetü'z-Zehra of the Risale-i Nur Is an Offspring, a Pupil, of Al-Azhar University Which Is in Much Need of Its Kindness; It Is a Student Which Is the Target of Fierce Enemies' Assaults
137. I Felt Absolutely Certain That Hasan Feyzi Had Assumed the Greater Part of My Calamity Similarly to the Martyr Hafiz Ali (May God Have Mercy on Him), Performing an Act of Self-Sacrifice
138. To Depart for the Intermediate Realm Did Not Weigh Down on Me but Filled Me with Longing, Since Through the Light of the Risale-i Nur We Saw It to Be Truly Luminous
139. God Willing, He Will Produce Many People From the Heroes' Hearth of Denizli with the Spirit of Hasan Feyzi Who Will Espouse the Risale-i Nur and Publish It
140. In One Respect He Has Not Died; He Completed His Duty Hastily, and Was Released and Departed to Rest in the Intermediate Realm
141. I Am Declaring Only a Few of the Numerous Benefits in This World and the Next of Writing Out the Risale-i Nur
142. The Piece to Be Put at the Beginning of the Collections Duplicated on the Machines
143. The Duplication of Zülfikar by Machine Is Nearly Completed, Which Is a Good Fortune for the Nurjus, and for the Whole Country Even
144. If I Had Been in Mecca, I Would Have Had to Come Here in Order to Save Belief and Serve the Qur'an. for the Need Is Greatest Here
145. God Willing, Every Lira Given for Zülfikar Will Yield a Thousandfold Profit and Will Produce Thousands of Good Works
146. I Implore and Entreat the Most Merciful of the Merciful That He Bestow Numerous Hasan Feyzis on the Risale-i Nur and on Our Master Who Will Cause Them to Forget Their Grief
147. At This Distressing Time When My Soul Was Vexing Me and Triggering Impatience, This Piece Silenced It Completely and Induced Me to Offer Thanks
148. It Occurred to Me That I Should Write and Tell You About a Strange Dispute I Had with Myself
149. Now It Is Understood From Your Letter That He Was Making His Death Felt as a Wonder of His Sincere and Sacred Service
150. No Being Endowed with Consciousness in the Whole Universe Can Deny the All-Glorious Creator to Whom Every Particle of Existence Bears Witness
151. The Sunnis Opposed Discussion of the Dissension That Occurred at the Time of the Companions
152. It Is Only the Risale-i Nur That Will Halt the Current of Absolute Disbelief Descending From the North; Neither Politics nor Diplomacy Can Perform This Task
153. It Is Essential to Break off Minor Internal Hostilities When Powerful External Enemies Are Attacking
154. The Person You Saw with the Prophet (Uwbp) Was the Risale-i Nur and the Collective Personality of Its Students
155. We Should Not Interfere in His. I Said This and Was Consoled Both for Myself and for You
156. An Industrious Brother Who Is Younger Than Me Will Fulfil My Tasks for the Risale-i Nur After Me Like My Other Brothers, I Await My Death with a Perfectly Peaceful Heart
157. Marangoz Ahmed Describes the Pious Attitude of the School's Students Towards the Death of Haji Hafiz, the School's Master
158. Concerning the Heroes Who Have Served the Risale-i Nur Greatly
159. Those of the Hojas Who Displaying Unusual Courage and Enterprise, Enter the Fold of the Risale-i Nur, Are the Cause of Those of Them Who Don't Enter to Be Forgiven to a Degree
160. The Strength Yielded by the Genuine Mutual Support of the Select Students Should Not Be Less Than the Self-Sacrifice of a Wretched Person Like Myself, God Willing
161. I Look on Isparta as Blessed Together with Its Earth and Stones and All Its People, and Therefore Regard Its Administrators and Especially Its Police as Earnest Friends
162. Re'fet Bey's Blessed Nine-Year-Old Innocent Child Has Written Out the First Word From the Risale-i Nur
163. To Hilmi Bey, Former Interior Minister and Now General Secretary of the Republican People's Party
164. Part of the Conversation with the Interior Minister
165. Two High-Ranking Colonels and a Deputy Who Was a Party Inspector Visited Our Master
166. In This Stormy and Godless Century Humanity's Intense Need for the Qur'an Has Been Acknowledged and This Is Indeed a Great Qur'anic Event
167. The Risale-i Nur Does Not Seek Customers; the Customers Have to Seek It Out and Plead for It
168. We Congratulate Them and Their Teachers and Parents for Listening Innocently and Eagerly to the Truths of Belief of the Risale-i Nur
169. Owing to My Illness, I Am Unable to Correct and Moderate His Long Letter. the Excessive Praise of Me Needs to Be Either Excised or to Be Altered
170. Why Don't You Accept for Yourself the Powerful Good Opinions or a Rank or Position?
171. The Free Dissemination of the Risale-i Nur Leads to the Raising of Calamities, While Its Being Silenced and Attacked Leads to Their Visitation. This Has Even Been Proved in Court
172. The Miraculous Prediction of Sura Al-Fil
173. I Am Compelled by the Three Months Not to Consider This Until They Have Passed and the Main Collections Have Been Published, Even If Rule Over the Whole World Were to Be Given to Me
174. Don't Worry, Divine Providence Continues. God Willing, This New Assault Will Come to Nothing, and Even Will Assist in the Risale-i Nur's Conquests
175. A Policeman or Court Official with Strong Belief May Be as Beneficial for the Country and Nation as Ten Men
176. The Elevated Truth of the Risale-i Nur Does Not Stoop to Any Worldly Advantages, nor Can It Be Exploited for Them
177. The Conquests of Zulfikar and the Staff of Moses
178. All the Members of the Directorate of Religious Affairs Are Appreciative of the Works
179. I Went Out in the Carriage for a Couple of Hours to See the Flowers This Splendid Spring
180. You Are Trying to Study and to Learn the Qur'an. but the New Letters, Which You Know, Are Deficient, so as Far as Is Possible, It Is Better Not Read It in Them
181. For Two Reasons I Am in Severe Need of Your Spiritual Services and Your Prayers and the Assistance of the Spiritual Gains You Have Earned in My Place
182. The Staff of Moses and Zulfikar Have Been Presented to the Esteemed Ulema Residing in the Vicinity of the Immaculate Tomb of the Prophet (Uwbp)
183. There Are Numerous Obstacles Preventing the Physical Founding of the Medresetü'z-Zehra, so for Now It Consists of All the Nur Students
184. Once the True Nature of This World Is Understood, Only Everlasting Life and the Qur'an Can Heal the Wounds of Humanity Caused by the Collapse of Their Dreams
185. It Is Most Advantageous at This Time to Attract the Alevis to the Fold of the Risale-i Nur so That the Political Currents Do Not Profit From Their Natural Devotion and Self-Sacrifice
186. We Accepted on Account of the Paradisaical Ramadan Gift the Congratulations Written with the Blessed Pens Sent in the Name of All the Members of the Safranbolu and Eflani Nur Schools
187. The Shining Lamp Has Turned Out Beautifully and Perfectly Correct. It Is a New Lesson for the Medresetü'z-Zehra of the Greatest Importance
188. Both My Covert Enemies and My Soul Search Out My Weak Points so That by Means of Them They May Damage the Purely Sincere Service of the Risale-i Nur
189. Three Extraordinary Events Which Occurred During the Old Said's Adventurous Life Were Wonders of the Risale-i Nur, Which Was to Appear in the Future
190. The Country, Nation, and Government Have Intense Need for These Works
191. God Willing, These Nur Schools Will Secure in Five to Ten Weeks the Results That the Former Medreses Produced in Five to Ten Years
192. Thanks to the Risale-i Nur's Conquests and on the Orders of Ankara, Your Confiscated Books Have Been Returned to You, Which Is a Great Victory
193. Having Been Defeated in Every Respect, Those Opposed to the Risale-i Nur Are Pursuing a Plan That on the Face of It Looks Unpleasant for Us, but in Reality Is More Beneficial for the Risale-i Nur
194. We're Within the Fold of the Risale-i Nur; Don't Leave Us and Go!
195. A Fine Point Concerning 'he': The Air Particles with Their Duties Point to the Existence and Unity of God
196. At No Time Upto the Present Has Any Work Spread so Effectively in Such Difficult Conditions
197. The Meaning of True Sincerity in the Risale-i Nur's Way Does Not Permit It to Be Made the Tool of Anything Other Than Belief and the Truths of the Qur'an
198. The Risale-i Nur Cannot Be Concealed; It Does Not Resemble Other Books; No One Can Claim Possession of It. Wherever It Is Found, It Declares: I Proceed From the Light!
199. The Unfolding and Conquests of the Risale-i Nur Are Slowly Increasing, Covering Numerous Officials
200. Concerning the Miraculous Qur'an
201. As the Price of the Ratifying Stamp, I Have Obtained Fifty Copies of a Guide for Youth From the Publishers, and I Am Sending Them to You
202. Besides Congratulating You on the Ten Nights, We Want to Tell You About Two Wonders of the Risale-i Nur
203. This Piece Is to Be Added to the End of a Fine Point Concerning 'he'
204. The Risale-i Nur's Conquests Continue Both at Home and Abroad
205. Unnecessary, Fleeting, Sinful Pleasures Yield Only Pains, so I Have No Desire for Them
206. In the Way of the Risale-i Nur There Can Be No Egotism of Any Sort, or Personalities, or the Desire for Personal Rank or for Winning Fame and Renown
207. Good News From the Islamic World and Bismarck's Piece
208. In Three Important Centres of the Risale-i Nur, Three Barbers Are Performing Great Services for It in Such a Way That They All Resemble Each Other, Together with Their Children
209. To Deem It a Crime to Duplicate in the Old Letters a Number of Treatises That Have Been Returned and Impose a Sentence Is a Matter of Serious Concern for the Judiciary and Insults Its Honour
210. The Risale-i Nur Suffices for Its True Students. They Should Be Content with It and Not Set Their Sights on Other Honours or Benefits
211. Numerous Experiences Have Made It Understood That Unreciprocated Presents Make Me Ill
212. Having Sold Some Unnecessary Foodstuffs and Clothes, I Am Sending You as the Price of the Flashes Collection a Truly Blessed Hundred Liras Together with Ten Blessed Liras From My Salary From the Daru'l-Hikmet
213. A Sign of the Risale-i Nur's Acceptance by Mecca and Medina
214. We Learnt That the Incident This Time Was Due to Their Unfounded Suspicions and Making Mountains Out of Molehills
215. Legally, They Should Have Taken My Statement but They Neglected to Do So, so I Am Now Presenting My Statement to the Collective Personality of the Judiciary and for the Information of the Interior Minister
216. Endless Thanks Be to Almighty God That This Last Attack, and Very Extensive and Suspicious Assault, Has Lessened Considerably
217. I Congratulate You with All My Life and Spirit on Your Success, and Steadfastness, and for the Wonder of the Alifs in the Twenty-Ninth Word Being Preserved When Written on the Waxed Paper
218. Addendum to the Petition Sent to the President, Which I Have Been Obliged to Write
219. Nevzad Bey, the Governor of Ankara, Attempted to Intervene Forcibly, but He Was Unsuccessful and He Also Received a Blow by Committing Suicide
220. The Addendum to the Statement Made While Being Interrogated in Emirdağ and Presented for Its Information to the Judiciary's Collective Personality and to the Interior Minister
221. In Egirdir, the Man Who Seized the Staff of Moses and Gave It to the Court, Himself Received a Prison Sentence of Two Years
Emirdağ Letters Ii
Comparisons of Belief and Disbelief
Rational Arguments