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I have received a letter from one of our leading students, Muharrem, in Denizli, which is a foremost centre of the Risale‑i Nur, for which it has performed much work in a short time, and with which I am closely concerned. Together with conveying congratulations for the festival in the name of the Husrev of Denizli and his most earnest and loyal companions, especially the just judge, and Muharrem, Hâfız Mustafa and the rest, the letter gave news of Hasan Feyzi's severe and dangerous illness. I felt absolutely certain that Hasan Feyzi had assumed the greater part of my calamity similarly to the martyr Hâfız Ali (May God have mercy on him), performing an act of self-sacrifice. Just as Hâfız Ali, according to several signs, departed for the Intermediate Realm in my stead; so too with Hasan Feyzi, for exactly concurrently with my illness, at the same time, for the same period, in the same way, and in the coincidence of distressing constriction, was a powerful sign that that brother of ours who so kindly pitied me had partly taken my illness on himself. There was just one difference in this four-sided coincidence: my illness was due to poisoning, while he had caught cold. Certainly, the Treatise for the Sick consoled him in our place and enquired about him like a visit to the sick, and transformed the ailment into great rewards and the suffering into joy. May Almighty God grant him a speedy recovery. Amen!