İbrahim Edhem, the hoja of the village of Alamescid, has written in his sincere letter that six innocent young children who have benefited thoroughly from his lessons and entered the fold of the Risale‑i Nur, on their own initiative and not telling their teacher, wrote six notes with their own pens expressing their wish to hand over to this elderly, ill Said a part of each of their lives, which was indeed an astonishing and laudable event pertaining to the Risale-i Nur. For my part, I accepted the gifts of those innocents and returned them to those young Saids as gifts for them to work in my place. May God Almighty grant them success! According to what they have written, they are İbrahim, nine years old; Mustafa, eleven; Halil İbrahim, twelve; Emin Yılmaz, fourteen; Mehmed, eleven; and Abdullah, twelve years old.
Hâfız Mehmed, who is one of the heroes of the Nur School and its blessed master, and is the son and heir of the late Haji Hâfız, wrote in the letter he sent in the name of all the medrese's students, that working with the Risale‑i Nur is the remedy for all calamities and illnesses other than death, and that even death it shows to be the door to Paradise, making the believers look to it eagerly and joyfully. Numerous incidents have demonstrated the truth of this. Moreover, his innocent child has begun to memorize the Qur'an. God willing he will be successful and perpetuate the blessed title of his father and grandfather.
Mustafa Yıldız, one of the diamond‑penned champions of the Nur School, wrote in his letter which was short in length but long and valuable in meaning, that having been referred to the heroes of the Nur medrese, The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen was as though applauded by three or four hoopoes on being written out on waxed paper. This shows, God willing, that The Ratifying Stamp will emerge shining from the Nur School and win some fine victories.
The short invocation (münâcât) heroic Tahirî has sent is correct, but only the first part has been translated, and my circumstances at the moment do not permit the translation to be completed. This brief invocation shows that selfish egotism and the desire for life were not dominant when the Risale‑i Nur was being composed, and they did not mar its purity and sincerity. During the Great War, I was perpetually ready to fall as a martyr, owing to which the Qur'anic commentary Ishārāt al-I'jāz (Signs of Miraculousness) was written with complete sincerity. Similarly, a powerful manifestation in this invocation of the readiness for death (rabita-ı mevt) has been the means of the Risale-i Nur acquiring a pure sincerity. God willing, no selfish emotions interefered in it.
Two of the prominent young students from Barla, which is the first Nur School and with which I am closely connected in spirit, came here — an Ahmed and Mehmed just like the Ahmed and Mehmed who came to visit me from Denizli. They were Ahmed, who came on behalf of his father, the late Mustafa Cavil, and the barber Mehmed, who came in place of his father‑in-law, the late Muhâjir Hâfız Ahmed, with whom together with Mustafa Çavuş I was formerly most closely involved and who served me loyally for eight years; they visited me in the name of the Barla Nur students. Truly I was as happy as if I had returned to Barla and those times. Mâshallah, Barla has begun to feel that it is the first Nur School; an earnest awareness and concern is being shown there. Haji Bekir, even, who had the Tenth Word printed, has taken on himself all the expenses and prevented the room I stayed in there being sold, and has sent news to Barla that it should be preserved as a sort of guest house for the Nur students.
I have received a short letter from the wife of our brother Hoja Sabri, the Nur Power Station, who like him has for years been a Nurju, and from his innocent son, Nureddin May Almighty God grant them health, happiness, and well‑being. Amen!
It is strange that although there was need everywhere for rain, it was only in Emirdağ that there were heavy showers and an unparalleled hailstorm with hailstones as large as hazelnuts, all of which was extremely beneficial for the crops. The two Nurju brothers who are now with me say that the causes of the rain falling were both the arrival of the miraculous Qur'an, and the police chief reading Zülfikar and appreciating it although an assault was expected since a copy of it had been seized, and thirdly, three high‑ranking officials called Ismail becoming students of the Risale-i Nur at the same time and spreading it.
Numerous occurrences upto the present have established that the free dissemination of the Risale‑i Nur leads to the raising of calamities, while its being silenced and attacked leads to their visitation. This has even been proved in court. It is understood that, in pursuit of their own aims, four currents, two internal and two external, have wanted to dampen the Nurjus' eagerness and spoil their efforts this stormy spring and to turn their attention towards politics and this world, and this resulted in the drought. God willing, an end will soon be brought to it.