My Dear, Loyal Brothers and Active, Steadfast Friends in the Service of the Qur'an!
Firstly: We congratulate you with all our life and spirit on the first ten nights of Dhu'l‑Ḥijja, which this year bear the meaning of the Greater Hajj.
Secondly: The Risale‑i Nur's conquests continue both at home and abroad. But the people of vice and misguidance, our covert enemies, alarm the Nur students by causing minor incidents, and making mountains out of molehills, unnerve them.
Recently, an incident occurred close to the house of a leading student, where most of my books and my letters of three years were openly found, There was a strong, ninety per cent, possibility of this being taken advantage of and his house being searched, but through Almighty God's providence, protection, and preservation, it was saved from this. If that morning I had not sternly admonished two of our ingenuous brothers and got them to remove them from there, once again the Risale‑i Nur and its circle would have been in an awkward situation.
It appears that a sort of fear of politics caused the incident that did occur. It is true that divine providence preserved us, but at present the collections are being published and are circulating so we are obliged to be calm and cir‑ cumspect; any such commotion allows our enemies to blow up things out of all proportion and to dismay and alarm us. Divine providence repulsed their scheme and protected us.
But thinking of the considerable harm that would come to the Risale‑i Nur's work and due to the trepidations and blows I felt in my spirit arising from that uncustomary and unforeseen event, I felt a distress I had never before experienced in my life and my nerves felt all afflicted with wounds. I was crushed by the involuntary grief I felt. Then out of His perfect compassion, on the second day the Most Merciful of the Merciful sent the truly devoted Nuri Benli, and Sadık Bey, the hero of Kastamonu, and Ismail, one of the İnebolu heroes, as a perfect salve for the distress of those spiritual wounds and a total remedy.
And I received the good news in a letter from our brother Emin, who had gone to his native region, that Molla Hamza was alive although fifteen years ago I heard he had fallen as a martyr, and for whom I have prayed continually together with my other martyr students like Ubeyd, and who printed both Ishārāt al‑I'jāz and the Tenth Word, and that he was now living in Iraq and was searching for the Risale-i Nur. This healed my wounds completely. I offered endless thanks to Almighty God.
We send numberless greetings to all our brothers.