In His Name, be He glorified! And there is nothing but it glorifies Him with praise!
My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
Firstly: A Hadith announces the strong possibility that the Night of Power may fall on any of the last ten days of Ramadan, especially the odd numbers. The Nurjus therefore should try to profit from that supreme light.
Secondly: The sending to the magistrates' court of two of our brothers who perform their duties to the letter like Husrev and Tahirî, together with another Nurju who follows their system, will turn out to be a signficant instance of divine providence and a victory, God willing. Don't worry about it.
In accordance with an inner meaning of the verse, It may be that you hate a thing that is [in fact] good for you , it will lead to the oppressors winning material and spiritual Hellfire and Nurjus winning Paradise, both in this world and the next, God willing.
Thirdly: I told the high‑ranking official who visited me the other day in connection with this letter that it has now become clear that three extraordinary events which occurred during the Old Said's adventurous life were wonders of the Risale-i Nur, which was to appear in the future. As follows:
During the Thirty‑First of March Incident when Mahmud Şevket Pasha, the commander-in-chief of the army, was extremely angry with me, Hurşid Pasha, the chief of the military court, asked while I was being tried and outside fifteen bodies were hanging on the gallows: “Did you call for the Shari'a? Look! Those who clamoured for it are hanged like that!”
I replied: “If I had a thousand lives, I'd sacrifice all of them for one matter of the Shari'a!” Although I said this and because of the calumnies of informers there were numerous reasons to condemn me, exceptionally the court gave its unanimous decision for my acquittal.
Also, following the Great War in Istanbul, copies of The Seven Steps (Hutuvat‑ı Sitte), a furious piece I had written against the British, and another insulting their chief cleric, came into the hands of the commander of their occupation forces, and it was a hundred per cent certain that he would have me eliminated, but he suppressed his anger and did not bother me.
Also, in Ankara in the president's office in the National Assembly when there were numerous deputies present, Mustafa Kemal entered the office in a towering rage and yelled at me: "We summoned you here to tell us your lofty ideas, but you came and wrote a few things about the obligatory prayers, causing discord amongst us!” In the face of his anger, I replied: “Those who neglect the prayers are traitors, and traitors may not hold positions of authority!” I smashed an awesome idol.
My friends among the deputies who were present were alarmed, and just when they reckoned he would crush me, he uttered what was in effect an apology. He suppressed his anger in the Assembly as though he perceived an awesome power and truth, and he withdrew. Two days later in his private office, from The Six Attacks (Hücumat‑ı Sitte) I read from the sentence “For example, at a time Aya Sophia is filled with eminent and blessed people, virtuous and excellent …” in the section entitled “First Stratagem,” to the “Second Stratagem,” which took a whole hour.
I wounded all his feelings and slighted his principles, yet he could do nothing against me and even made serious efforts to placate me. Thus, the remarkable responses of these three imperious commanders and their quite simply being intimidated by the Old Said was definitely a shining wonder of the Risale‑i Nur and showed the extraordinary future power of the collective personality of its heroic students.
Fourthly: In response to the congratulations for Ramadan and the Night of Power sent by our brother Yâkub Cemal in the name of Denizli students, we say: “May God bless you!” and to his struggling with his own soul: “May God grant you success!” And we say “All praise be to God!” to his describing how he had heard that his friends had read in the latest newspapers that in the British capital orators had declared from their platforms that the English should now embrace Islam and that they are reading and expounding the verses of the All‑Wise Qur'an since they teach all the true needs of humanity. Indeed, with the Qur'an that country could save both its worldly possessions, and its hegemony, and its prosperity.
We say too: “May God bless you!” on the success with Lemeât of Küçük Ali, who is small in name but great in spirit and the hero and senior Abdurrahman of the Nur students; and: “What wonders God has willed!” and “May God grant you success!” a thousand times over on his innocent young son Nur Mehmed's memorizing the Qur'an. But we leave it to your discretion to decide whether or not the pieces included in The Shining Lamp (Siracü 'n‑Nur) and The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen and Mysteries Collection are also added to The Flashes Collection (Lem 'alar Mecmuası). Endless greetings to all of you.