My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
I no longer have any doubts at all that not only ourselves and Anatolia and the world of Islam applaud the Risale‑i Nur's liberty, a consequence of this work of ours; the universe itself is gratified and the atmosphere and skies applaud it, For despite the severe need, for three or four months no rain fell, but then Denizli Court's decision to return the copies of the Risale-i Nur coincided with [rain falling on] the Night of Regâib, just like on the Night of the Ascension, showing that the Risale-i Nur is an instance of divine mercy. Then the mercy of rain falling in Emirdağ together with the accolades of the angel of thunder coincided with the decision to hand over the Risale-i Nur. Then the time of its being handed over a week later to the deputy in Denizli coincided with abundant rain falling in this region on the eve of Friday, just like the coinciding of the rain with the Nights of Regâib and the Ascension.
All these coincidences (tevâfukat) made one feel quite certain that just as the coinciding of four earthquakes with the seizure of the Risale‑i Nur and its imprisonment was an objection on the part of the earth; so in the past four months the abundant rain which fell in the region of Emirdağ only on the eves of three Fridays, those of the Nights of Regâib and the Ascension and the first of the month of Sha'ban, coinciding with the three stages of the Risale-i Nur's release and freedom were congratulations and announcements of good news by the atmosphere, and was a powerful sign that the Risale-i Nur bears the meaning of mercy and spiritual rain.
A truly subtle sign was seen yesterday when suddenly a sparrow appeared at the window and tapped at it, We made a move to make it fly away, but it remained.
I felt obliged to tell Ceylan to open the window to see what it had to say.
It entered the room and remained there till this morning. We left the room to it and I went to my bedroom. I went out this morning and opened the door. Not a minute later I returned and saw that another bird was chirruping and singing in my room. I smiled and asked myself why such a guest had come. It looked at me for a full hour without flying away or being startled, I was reading. I put some breadcrumbs for it, but it did not eat theme I again opened the door and went out. When I returned thirty seconds later, it had gone.
Later the child who assists me arrived and said: “I had a dream last night. Hâfız Ali's brother visited us.”
I told him that one of our brothers who resembles Hâfız Ali and Husrev is going to come here.
Two hours later that same day the boy came and said that Hâfız Mustafa had arrived: he had brought both the good news of the Risale‑i Nur's release, and some of my books that had been held by the court; and he solved the question of both the sparrow, and the singing bird, and his own dream, all of which proved that nothing is chance or coicidence.
Could it be just chance that both the extraordinary appearance of the sparrow, and the strange songbird flying in and just looking at me and then disappearing, and the boy's dream turning out to be completely true all coincided with the Risale‑i Nur's arrival here brought by such a person as Hâfız Mustafa? Is it at all possible that all these could be a mere chance and not be auspicious good news from the Unseen?
This is certainly not some unimportant matter; it is connected with the universe and with animals, As a Risale‑i Nur student, I myself am content with the profits that fall to me as though they were worth thousands of gold sovereigns. An analogy may be made between this and the other hundreds of thousands of students and the benefits gained by believers in need of having their faith strengthened,
Yes, since the Risale‑i Nur has solved more than a hundred of the mysteries of religion, the Shari'a, and the Qur'an; and it silences even the most obdurate atheists; and proves as clearly as the sun in the face of obstinate irreligious men of learning such Qur'anic truths as the Prophet's (UWBP) ascension and the resurrection of the dead that were supposed to be remote from pure reason, and has induced some of them to accept belief; it surely will attract the attention of the earth and atmosphere to itself and is a Qur'anic truth that will preoccupy the present and future, and is a diamond sword in the hands of the believers.