My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
The Ḥizb al‑Qur'ān al-Mu'aẓẓam possesses numerous characteristics like its both holding extraordinary importance and being extraordinarily beneficial; and no doubts occuring on its being read; and its comprising the Qur'an's most meritorious verses; and its bringing together all the principles and truths of the Risale-i Nur; and its being a sacred summary of the Qur'an for those who cannot always find the opportunity to read the whole Qur'an and who are not hafizes; and its being a small sample of the printed Qur'an showing the correspondences of words, and a bringer of good news; and its showing the brilliant inimitability of the Qur'an with regard to its words and meanings, and materially. During these blessed Three Months it is a means to many blessings, lights, and merits, and has earned much good for those who have been involved in its printing and publication. For some reason or other, they have not included the following verses from Sura Al-i 'Imran, which are two brilliant, sacred supports of the Risale-i Nur, and springs of the water of life: God testifies that there is no god but He, and the angels … and Say, God is the Owner of all sovereignty … They should be included,
These days while reading page twelve, the verse The dissemblers … struck my eye. I looked at the preceding page, and saw: Who is better in religion than he who submits to God I looked at the back of the page and saw that there were four verses that pointed to the Risale‑i Nur. They are explained in the First Ray. It occurred to my heart that this awesome verse looks particularly to this terrible, dark age of ours with its rife dissembling. I noted it carefully and felt certain. A sign is this:
according to jafr and abjad reckoning, Indeed the dissemblers will be in the very pits of the Fire … coincides precisely with the dates of the four degrees of dissembling. As follows:
If the doublings are counted and if the hamzas which are not read and the yā' in the fi, which is not read, are not counted, it makes exactly one thousand three hundred and sixty‑two, indicating this year.
If the doubling in min an‑nār is counted as one nūn and one lām, it makes one thousand three hundred and forty‑two, coinciding exactly with the date of the First World War, which gave rise to terrible dissembling.
If the doubling is counted as two nūns, and the silent hamzas and the yā' are also counted, it makes one thousand three hundred and sixty‑six, and coincides with a difference of four with the jafr value of the word darknesses, which is the lowest level of this dark dissembling and is compared with light “(nūr)” in many verses.
If the silent letters are counted and the doubling in an‑nār is a lām, it makes one thousand three hundred and six exactly pointing the finger at and coinciding with the date of the terrible storms of disbelief and dissembling.
Yes, two rā's is four hundred; three fā's and two lāms, three hundred; one qāf, two doubled nūns, three hundred; one mīm, one sīn; the other mīm, one yā', one nūn, that's one hundred, too; two nūns, that's a hundred as well; and the total, one thousand three hundred. One lām, one kāf, fifty; a doubled dāl, eight; and two long ā's, two hamzas, four; and the total is one thousand three hundred and sixty‑two. The other three numbers can be compared with this.
I also looked carefully at pages twelve and thirteen and I saw that they correspond so closely to the Risale‑i Nur and its students that they have not only a symbolic and indicative meaning, but also look particularly to the present century quite explicitly, including it as a singular element in its universal meaning. I understood this with certainty and offered endless thanks. If the calamities that have befallen us up to now in this work with the Risale-i Nur had been a hundred times worse, it still would have been nothing; we are the winners. With the thought that by smashing our unimportant ephemeral glass fragments, those calamities are gaining for us everlasting diamonds in the hereafter, I knew that we should be pleased and offer thanks in patience.
Furthermore, I can give you the good news that their eighth attempt to poison me has again come to nothing. The guarantee of the Ghawth al‑A'zam, Indeed you are protected under the eye of divine grace has once again been fulfilled.
I send greetings to each and every one of my brothers and pray for them and seek their prayers in these blessed Three Months.
From your brother who requests with all his spirit the innocent prayers of the many sinless children within the fold of the Risale‑i Nur and of the blessed elderly, whose supplications are not rebuffed.Saîd Nursî