My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
Firstly: I congratulate you with all my spirit and life on the past Night of Acquittal.
Secondly: It is indeed good and useful that Re'fet Bey, a leading commander and publisher of the Risale‑i Nur, has gone to Istanbul in connection with its service. A Nurju like himself was anyway needed there. May Almighty God grant him success! Amen!
Thirdly: I have prepared three copies each of Zülfikar and The Staff of Moses, one of each to be sent to the ulema of al‑Azhar University, one of each to the religious scholars around the holy grave of the Prophet (UWBP) in Medina, and one of each to the ulema in Damascus. A letter addressing the al-Azhar ulema, which I have sent to you, has been inserted at the beginning of them, God willing, we shall send them to you as quickly as possible.
Fourthly: Because I have been unable to perform them all myself, for two reasons I am in severe need of your spiritual services and your prayers and the assistance of the spiritual gains you have earned in my place.
First Reason: Never before in my life have I experienced the powerlessness and gradually increasing weakness I now feel, Due to the many difficulties, I can recite only deficiently some of the invocations I have always recited, despite the fact that during these blessed days and nights I need to work a hundred times more. And although by reason of my share in your spiritual partnership I should assist in it and should hasten to share in your prayers with “amens” to a far greater degree, my feebleness allows me to help in only the slightest way, The solution for this is for my duties in the work of the Risale‑i Nur to be given to you, and for me to rely on your spiritual assistance for the performance of my duties in that partnership. I beseech divine mercy that my work may be commensurate with your good will towards me and your favourable opinion of this weak brother of yours, which far exceeds his due and abilities.
The Second Reason for the need: Both yourselves and some other persons suppose the extraordinary results that have appeared from the Risale‑i Nur's truths and its students' collective personality to have emerged from this wretched brother of yours, although enormous power and endurance would be necessary, My very minor and personal efforts and my illness and weakness, therefore, render me severely needy for your help and assistance. So in order to induce your spiritual assistance to hasten to me, I intend you when I recite such phrases as Save us! Have mercy on us! which are in the first person plural, as if I am working together with all of you. And when I say “Amen,” I intend an “amen” to all of your prayers. God willing, in His mercy, the Most Merciful of the Merciful accepts my extremely deficient and minor work as a perfect “amen” to your vast works.
Fifthly: I was very anxious about your situation after the former incident. Then, thanks be to God, your letter said that the hero Tahirî had gone to Istanbul to get the duplicating machine and paper, which shows that the trouble has abated and will not prevent the Risale‑i Nur's publication, on the contrary, there as in other places, it is making triumphant conquests, God willing‥