Firstly: With their services for the Risale‑i Nur with the duplicating machine and in other ways, the hero Nazif and his friends, who in truth have his spirit and loyalty, are making this country indebted to them. May Almighty God grant them every success! Amen. It is a great triumph. The work produced by the machine is both attractive, clear, and correct. Almighty God has bestowed on Nazif many Salâhaddins and İbrahims.
A piece in my own handwriting is needed at the beginning of Zülfikar. Because of my illness, I am unable myself to write the four waxed pages they have sent, so I shall dictate and my permanent scribe will write it, and I shall write just a few words.
I have received the three sorts of material gifts (teberrük) that our brother Nazif sent for the festival and New Year in the name of the Nurjus of both Istanbul and İnebolu. I have accepted them in the name of all of them, although it is not my habit. May God be pleased with them, Amen! I broke my rule for their sake. And I have received the two collections sent by Mustafa Osman, our brother who is as loyal and attached as Nazif: one, the paradisaical Nur Zülfikar in the name of the second Salâhaddin, the young İbrahim; another, the greater part of The Words (Sözler), written most beautifully by himself and sent in the name of all the Safranbolu Nurjus. May Almighty God write in the books of their good deeds and those of İbrahim and Mustafa and İzzet and their friends and helpers, merits to the number of the letters of Zülfikar and those two collections, and a hundred instances of mercy for each letter. Amen!
Indeed, Mustafa Osman has found two dedicated and very hardworking wings. Like Nazif has Salâhaddin and İbrahim, Mustafa Osman has found the teacher Ahmed Fuad and Mustafa Oruç in the university; he will get much work done for the Risale‑i Nur with those two wings, God willing. Now that people like Mustafa Oruç and the teacher Ahmed Fuad have started to serve the Risale-i Nur so effectively, it lessens a little the pain of Hasan Feyzi's death, who was the Denizli hero. Then the facts that Küçük İbrahim is a second Salâhaddin and is working earnestly for the Risale-i Nur with the duplicating machine together with his family, brother, and wife; and Salih, Gülcü Hüseyin, Osman, Zühtü, İzzet, Ömer and the other Nurjus there who are named in the letter are all progressing in their service steadfastly and unshakeably pleased us immeasurably, and showed too that in the future they will make the country grateful to them. As God wills, they have proved that İnebolu is a small Isparta and in every respect a Nur School.
Secondly: We have already sent some collections in the old letters to Mustafa Oruç, a very industrious university‑student Nurju who has the abilities of an Abdurrahman and a Salâhaddin and is related to the village of Nurs, my name of Nursi, and the Risale-i Nur. At his request we have sent eight or nine pieces in the new letters since he says that the university students have much need of them and are eager for them. But as a young student, he is inexperienced and not capable of safeguarding the Risale-i Nur, so in order that it should be given to suitable people and not remain unused, any Nur students who are near Istanbul or who visit there or who live there should help him with spreading its treatises and safeguarding it.
Thirdly: The Denizli hero Hasan Feyzi's (Mercy be upon him) going to join the Isparta hero Hâfız Ali (Mercy be upon him) certainly saddens us terribly, but as his select student, the loyal Nur student Muharrem, said, and I too say:
In one respect he has not died; he completed his duty hastily, and was released and departed to rest in the Intermediate Realm. Together, he and Hâfız Ali are assisting with their intercession and the powerful works connected with the Risale‑i Nur they left behind; they are still working at the Risale-i Nur. Since they are surely martyrs of a sort, we hope and seek from divine mercy that like the medrese student in the Eleventh Topic of The Fruits of Belief who thought he was still busy with his Arabic grammar lessons, the two are busy discussing the truths of the Risale-i Nur within the circle of the Nurjus who have died. God willing, He will raise up many Hasan Feyzis to carry on his duties in this world.
However, it was mistake that that blessed brother did not avoid taking official medicines, as I do. I suffered much more distress than he did, but thinking that the Nurjus' supplications would suffice, I did not seek material medicines or anyone's opinion about the illness, and so did not suffer any anxiety. Our late brother did not manage to comply with me on this point. He had given his word in his brilliant pieces about the Risale‑i Nur that he would sacrifice himself for this wretched brother of his, so performed his duties for the Risale-i Nur with great speed and departed for the world of rest and repose. Once again I offer my condolences to his relatives and to his valuable, dedicated students like Muharrem, and to the Nurjus of Denizli and its surroundings, and suggest that like us they make our late brother a partner in their good works by inscribing them in his book of good deeds as though in respect of good deeds he has not died. And I send them many greetings and seek divine mercy for him.
Fourthly: The behaviour of the hoopoe‑like bird — like Solomon's hoopoe — during the work of the Risale-i Nur, belonging to the notable Nur student Mustafa Yıldız, is not strange or unique. He is one of the heroes of Sava, where at one time the Risale-i Nur was being written out with a thousand pens. There are numerous such examples; on many occasions birds have shown an interest in the Risale-i Nur.
I send my congratulations to Sadık Bey, who completely true to his name worked together with Hilmi in prison and unforgetably served myself, the unity of the Nurjus, and the co‑operation of the Nurjus and other prisoners, and beforehand and afterwards worked heroically in his home region. I send my congratulations to him and his mother and relatives, and may God grant them abundant blessings for the sacrifice they offered in my name. Also, we send greetings to Salih's son Osman, who is a Nur student and sent us greetings via him, and we accept him within the fold of the Risale-i Nur.