I offer endless thanks and praise, for this letter of yours has dispelled all my crushing worries about Husrev and his friends and their duplicating machines, and Nazif and his assistants and his machine, and whether they would be able to continue with this new work, All praise be to God a thousand times over!
In fact, the day before I received your letters, I had gone for a drive round in a car. Suddenly, as though it wanted to convey some good news, a bird resembling Solomon's hoopoe followed us for around fifteen minutes, flying to right and left and then perching, then flying off and returning. I had never before seen such a strange thing and I felt sure that the next day I would receive some good news. I said this to Nureddin, who was driving me; he too was amazed at the bird's strange antics, Then it suddenly disappeared because I had divulged its secret.
The next day I received both Nazif's comforting letter and the new products of his machine; and Abdurrahman Salâhaddin's curiosity‑arousing letter and the news that Nevzat, the governor of Ankara who had harassed me because of the hat question, had committed suicide and punished himself with his own hand, and that there were no assaults on the work on Zülfikar and it was continuing; and the news that the heroes of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ were persisting with Zülfikar without getting agitated and describing the reality of the situation; and the letters of congratulation of Tahirî and Abdullah, the heroes of Ata-bey, with which I am closely concerned, and heirs of Lütfi and deputies and heirs of the late Hâfız Ali and his capable companions in the service of the Risale-i Nur; and in the face of this latest assault, the meaningful, correct replies of the Ali Köyü Imam, Hâfız Ali, to the government's questions in a way that was most courageous and befitted a Nur student. I exclaimed: “See! The hoopoe's good news was right!”
Just as The Staff of Moses saves from misguidance those submerged in nature and is a necessary antidote for everyone at this time, especially those fallen into doubt and denial; so too, Zülfikar is essential for the believers and scholars, and particularly for the hâfizes (memorizers) of the Qur'an. All hafizes have great need for this collection at the present time; it explains forty aspects of the Qur'an's miraculousness (i'jaz) and every one of them should have a copy.
At no time in history has there been a work like the Risale‑i Nur that has received so little and so light criticism from those who attack the many schools and ways. Indeed, in return for their hundredfold sacred service and striving with a hundredfold less trouble, its students have suffered a mere one or two terms of imprisonment and two or three calamities which were providential and victorious, unimportant, temporary, and in respect of their results, beneficial.
I send everyone many greetings and pray for their success‥