Endless thanks be to Almighty God, for owing to the wondrous effects (kerâmet) of true solidarity and unshakeable unity, the pillars of the Medresetü'z‑Zehrâ are overcoming all difficulties and obstacles and are being successful in getting the Risale-i Nur's diamond Zülfikar and its miracuIous proofs to those in need. Even if the troubles we suffer in securing this result were a thousand times greater, they would count for little and be insignificant.
We congratulate the three children Münevvere, Nazmiye, and Sâim, who our brother Re'fet says in his letter, have in three months succeeded in reading the whole Qur'an having started from scratch (lit. elif), and in addition to their Qur'an lessons, listen innocently and eagerly to the truths of belief of the Risale‑i Nur. We congratulate them and their teachers and parents. God willing, Münevvere and Nazmiye will complete the tasks connected with the Risale-i Nur that Abdülbaki and Mehmed Celâl left unfinished.
May Almighty God restore to health the sick person mentioned in the heroic Burhan's letter, who has filled us and the Risale‑i Nur with gratitude, and may God bestow mercy on our brother's Zekâi's mother, who has died. Amen.
Sabri, who is the Nur power station and one of the pillars of the Risale‑i Nur and a fine representative of those who are hojas, tells me in his letter that Ahmed Fuad wants to sacrifice his life for his elderly Master, whose duties are almost fulfilled, and to go soon to the Intermediate Realm in his stead, and that he wants to be the successor in service of the late Hâfız Ali and Hasan Feyzi. Sabri says too that if possible he wants to give his life as well, as the fourth of them, and is persuading his soul and his heart. I declare “Bârekâllah!” a thousand times over to this staunch, most useful brother of long-standing who has dedicated his life to the Risale-i Nur, and I accept the life he has dedicated to me like Ahmed Fuad and entrust what remains of my life to those two brothers, those two new Saids, so that they may persist in the service of belief and the Risale-i Nur in my place.
He also says in his letter that Sıddık Süleyman's son Yûsuf is learning under Şamlı Hâfız Tevfik, the chief scribe of Barla's Nur School, the script and lessons of the Qur'an and the Risale‑i Nur, like the sons of the late Mustafa Çavuş and Ahmed; and that Hulûsi and Hâfız Hakkı are enthusiastically writing out the Risale-i Nur; all of which strengthened my hopes for Barla and caused me deep joy and happiness. May Almighty God grant them success. Amen! And to Tevfik. Amen!
I was also greatly pleased with the letter included in Sabri's letter from Hüseyin, the nephew of Sıddık Süleyman, who assisted me so much while I was in Barla and whom I often remember. It also satisfied my curiosity. Mâsha'llah, he continues his previous involvement, just like the old Sıddık Süleyman!
Also sent with Sabri's letter were those of Şükrü, Süleyman, and Osman Çavuş, Nur students from the village of Cire near Eğirdir, which show their serious and sincere attachment to the Risale‑i Nur, to which I say: Bârekâllah! May Almighty God bless them and grant them success!
I have received the treatises sent by the Husrev and Rüştü of Kastamonu, Mehmed Feyzi and Emin, that belonged to me and remained in Kastamonu and were being held in trust by them. Mehmed Feyzi, the Risale‑i Nur's chief scribe, has written a glossary for The Staff of Moses, which I have sent to you. It is written in truly fine and learned fashion although he is ill. He included a noteworthy piece at the head of it, and sent me a letter also. His wondrous loyalty and superior devotion, and his serving belief in various ways, despite the numerous difficulties and obstacles there, show that just as he is a young Husrev, so he is fully a Hasan Feyzi. But because when I was there, I was not bothered by a very high-ranking and egotistical person who had formerly been an official and had leanings towards Sufism, and a most notable, knowledgeable hoja who was deeply involved in the world and was a politically oriented businessman, I did not attempt to draw them into the fold of the Risale-i Nur, and I did not bother them, Now, Mehmed Feyzi wants to deliver Kastamonu from their ascendancy, but is unable to achieve this as in Denizli. Moreover, such Nur champions as Hilmi, Sadık, and Ahmed Kureyşi are away in their villages, so Feyzi's work remains a bit personal. God willing, sometime they will succeed in this completely.
In another field (in the world of women), Kastamonu's Zehrâs, Hacers, Lütfiyes, Ulviyes, and Necmiyes accompany Feyzi in serving the Risale‑i Nur.
It says in Feyzi's letter that thanks to the efforts of the Risale‑i Nur students, an official Qur'an school has been opened and that the first to attend it were the Nur children and particularly Emin's children and they have been the first to read the Qur'an from beginning to end and to learn some of it by heart. I congratulate them and their fathers and the other students there, and say: “Bârekâllah!” a thousand times over for those innocent children.
Our worthy sister Zehrâ has come here twice in connection with the Risale‑i Nur work; her donating two hundred liras to cover the paper expenses of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ shows that among the women are Husrevs, Feyzis, and Ahmeds.
I have received the joint letter of the Nur heroes Hilmi Bey and Emin in Kastamonu and signed by Hâfız İhsan. I send with much longing, greetings to those valuable, steadfast, unshakeable old brothers and the other Nur students there. Also, where is İhsan who was together with us in prison and assisted us so much there? I am curious.
Thanks to the wondrous loyalty and devotion of such people in the vicinity of Safranbolu as the Mustafas, Ahmed Fuad, the late Hıfzı, and Rahmi, our eight years of service for the Risale‑i Nur in Kastamonu did not remain fruitless; they prove materially that there will be a shining Nur School in Safranbolu. I consider to be most significant the good news given in Mustafa Osman's latest letter that the Risale-i Nur will make many conquests among the hundreds of young people and workers in the manufacturing town of Karabük.
It is truly most auspicious what the two young Nur heroes, Mustafa Sungur and Rahmi, tell in their fine letter of Ahmed Fuad's earnest efforts to teach the Risale‑i Nur in their villages, and the district of Eflâni coming to resemble a Nur School like Barla, with its people attending the lessons enthusiastically; and two young teachers embracing the Risale-i Nur still in the old script; and the children starting to learn the Qur'anic script, and starting to write out the Risale-i Nur. May Almighty God grant success to those innocent children and may He be pleased with their teachers and parents. They are included among the children mentioned in my prayers. We congratulate the district of Eflâni, and foremost Ahmed Fuad, Mustafa, and Rahmi.
Mustafa Sungur, one the young Nur heroes, has written out the conclusion of the Eleventh Topic of The Fruits of Belief perfectly in a short space of time in the old letters, and Rahmi, the other, has written out beautifully A Guide for Youth in the old letters, and sent these to me together with my books that arrived from Kastamonu. In truth, this pleased me so much, it was as though two new nephews resembling Abdurrahman and Fuad had come into the world‥