Firstly: For every calamity: To God we belong, and to Him is our return
The death of Hasan Feyzi, who had assumed the late Hâfız Ali's position and was one of the Risale‑i Nur heroes, is a great loss for Denizli, for the fold of the Risale-i Nur, for this country, and for the world of Islam. But with his truly sincere, genuine, unique lessons and instruction, he prepared the ground for the raising of numerous Hasan Feyzi's in his place, God willing, then he departed. He performed in two years ten years of valuable services for the Risale-i Nur, just as my nephew Abdurrahman did. They performed the tasks of ten years in one or two as though both knew that they would soon depart from this world.
I congratulate Hasan Feyzi's person on his death, and offer earnest condolences to Denizli, the Nur students, and this country; it is a great calamity to lose a true believer, erudite scholar, elevated littérateur, teacher, eloquent preacher, and educator of this sort whose profound knowledge embraced matters of this world and the next. 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. Just as one seed enters the earth and dies then a hundred shoots emerge from it; so we nourish hopes from divine mercy that Hasan Feyzi will produce many such shoots and many Hasan Feyzis will appear within the fold of the Risale-i Nur and carry out his duties to an even greater degree.
Secondly: Each one of us should assign to that heroic brother's book of good deeds his spiritual gains as though he were still alive, to him personally just as we do to all of us generally. I have decided to bestow my spiritual gains on him as the fifth member after Hâfız Ali, Hâfız Mehmed, Ahmed of Sava, and Mehmed Zühtü, of the elite group of great saints. The pieces he wrote about the Risale‑i Nur under the harshest conditions, which have done so much to spread it, are in The Additional Letters; you may add one each of those powerful letters to the end of any collections you deem suitable. Those living pieces are being included in The Staff of Moses and Zülfikar so that they may serve the Risale-i Nur in his place.
Convey my condolences for me to his relatives in the tiny Nur School which is his house, and to his companions and students and the Nur students in the large Nur School of Denizli and its vicinity, and tell them that I have never in all my life been so saddened at a death and so wept as at his.
Also, it has now become clear that my intense anger and mental disturbance which were reflected in the letter I wrote you before, began on the day that heroic brother died. Its effect negated my will. I thought I was going to die and dictated my will to my assistant. That is to say, Hasan Feyzi was as though my second spirit and died in my place and is dying. In fact, in a way that was totally opposed to my normal custom, I could not open the letter giving news of his death for one and a half hours, although I was holding it in my hand. Anyway, when faced with all these grievous sorrows, divine providence came to our assistance, and I congratulated happily with all my life and spirit both myself, and him, and the Nurjus. “Endless blessings and mercy be upon him!” I exclaimed, and I applauded his release.
Thirdly: Just as I was thinking sorrowfully about the late Hasan Feyzi departing for the Intermediate Realm and his position remaining vacant, and as an esteemed teacher his being a shining example for pupils in the secular schools and those teaching the modern sciences when I unexpectedly received a letter from Hâfız Hasan of Daday. He is a teacher and, with his two children, is a Nurju and is also called Hasan. I had not heard from him for three years and did not know how he was or that he continued to serve the Risale‑i Nur. Through Hâfız Hasan, Ahmed Fuad, an exceptional and self-sacrificing teacher like these two Hasans, had entered the fold of the Risale-i Nur. I said: One teacher called Hasan has departed but in his place another teacher called Hasan and one called Ahmed have arrived!
At the same time, someone called Hasan from Bolvadin, who had recently returned from the Hajj, entered the fold of the Risale‑i Nur; he obtained some of its treatises and began to spread its lights.
Three or four hours later, the doctor Hayri, who is a Husrev and Feyzi of Emirdağ, came to see me. He said: “A respected schoolteacher here wants to become a Nur student. If you agree, we'll give him The Staff of Moses.”
I told him to give it to him. (This teacher performed as many services for the Risale‑i Nur as Feyzi did.)
Also, I saw the letter that had arrived that day from Mustafa Osman, our brother who like the late Hasan Feyzi has performed many services in a short period of time. He had written describing how Mustafa, who had attended the secular schools and spread lights in the Kastamonu Lycée to an extent and was now trying to do the same in the university, had drawn attention to the Press Laws lest harm should come to the Risale‑i Nur due to the duplicating machine and had mentioned the need for caution when communicating.
I exclaimed: Endless thanks be to Almighty God! One teacher was released but in his place two Hasans, two Mustafas, three teachers, and one hardworking educator are performing the Denizli hero's duties in addition to their own duties. This is a sign that just as Hâfız Ali departed and Denizli took his place and dispelled all the pain and sorrow; so Hasan Feyzi has departed and in his place a modern school and university will emerge, God willing, and again make the pain subside.
Greetings to all our brothers‥