Emirdağ Letters I — 180. You Are Trying to Study and to Learn the Qur'an. but the New Letters, Which You Know, Are Deficient, so as Far as Is Possible, It Is Better Not Read It in Them — Emirdag Letters

My Dear, Innocent Children!

You are trying to study and to learn the Qur'an, But the new letters, which you know, are deficient, so as far as is possible, it is better not read it in them.

Also, the Qur'an should not be read just to become a hâfız nor memorized in its entirety to win a rank in this world and earn a salary. Rather, one should think that each of its letters yields from at least ten merits to hundreds or thousands of fruits of Paradise and benefits in the hereafter, and read it with the intention of securing the ease and happiness of eternal life.

If the benefits of studying science in school to secure a livelihood and ranks or positions in this brief worldly life have the value of one, learning for eternal life the Qur'an and its sacred words and luminous belief‑inducing meanings are thousand of times more valuable. The former resemble fragments of glass, and the latter, diamonds.

Also, you will be true, beneficial children for your parents. You are innocent and still without sin, so if you study with such a sacred intention, you will be accepted among the innocent Risale‑i Nur students and you will receive a share of the prayers of all the students, and be light-scattering, blessed students yourselves.

I congratulate both your teacher, and yourselves, and your parents, and your country.