My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
Endless thanks be to Almighty God, a sign of the Risale‑i Nur's acceptance by Mecca and Medina is this:
the Denizli hero Hâfız Mustafa obtained from Istanbul the Zülfikar, Staff of Moses, and Shining Lamp that were going to be sent to the Indian ulema, and on the road, read them to some people travelling to the Hajj. Then in Medina, they together handed them over to a very famous Kashmiri scholar and to someone who knew Turkish well. The two young Nurju hajis who had accompanied Hâfız Mustafa and read the Risale‑i Nur on the journey, and some other hajis, brought me this good news, and that the person to whom they had given those collections thought very highly of them and undertook to send them to the centre of the Indian ulema, and also that the collections designated for Medina had arrived in good condition, as had those sent to other places; they brought the good news of the Risale-i Nur's spread and acceptance abroad. Only, of the three collections sent to al-Azhar University, Zülfikar remained here; we were unable to send it; only two of them went. The wisdom in this is that
Zülfikar is an extensive, scholarly lesson. It would not have been appropriate to send it as instruction to al‑Azhar University, which is the supreme medrese of the Islamic world. Also, there is a cholera epidemic there at the moment, so Zülfikar would not have received the attention it deserves.