My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
A strange and meaningful event related to the Risale‑i Nur students and the wonder-working of The Supreme Sign and the worldly's intention to molest the Risale-i Nur: a fire in one of the local government offices opposite me burned for three hours at the very coldest time of the night with an extraordinary brilliance I had never before seen. Immediately next to it were the large shops belonging to two brothers, and to one of the Çalışkans who is a Risale-i Nur student, which held the greater part of young Ceylan's capital. There were only two small shops between their shops and the fire. The fire was spreading in all its fury towards their shops when the unfortunate Ceylan came to me crying: “Our shops are on fire, we're finished!”
Two days earlier I had told him to bring me some of the printed copies of The Supreme Sign which were in the shop, but he had not brought them. That is to say, they remained there in order to extinguish the fire.
For my part, taking the Risale‑i Nur and The Supreme Sign as intercessors, I exclaimed: “O my Lord! Save them!” In three hours that raging fire destroyed the large local government office and completely burnt out the shops that were under it and adjacent to it. But through the protection of the Risale-i Nur and Supreme Sign, the fire did not touch their shop at all, and the shop under it belonging to the student also remained intact. Only, the people broke its windows. There would have been no damage if they had not done so, to remove the goods.
Thus, there were instances of the Risale‑i Nur's wonder-working, both when the Isparta carpet shop caught fire and the two houses of the two brothers of the person who assigned their villa for readings of the Risale-i Nur were saved from the conflagration although they were right next to it; and in Kastamonu, just like in Emirdağ, the house of the Nur student Hâfız Ahmed was saved in extraordinary fashion from the fire opposite me that broke out in the house adjacent to him, and both the life and the jewelry of his sister on the third floor were saved through the blessings of the Risale-i Nur; and here too three brothers from the Çalışkan family, all hardworking students of the Risale-i Nur, and four people altogether were saved from the fire. Both I myself, and themselves, and our other brothers felt certain that all these were wonders of the Risale-i Nur and The Supreme Sign. If there had been even the slightest wind, which usually blows continuously here, most of the shops in the market might well have been burnt down. In fact, the owners of five or ten shops after the Supreme Sign shop, emptied them of goods and fled quite a distance.
Certains signs were apparent when they interfered with me and the Risale‑i Nur, and seized my new letters in Sandıklı and between Afyon and Kütahya. They received slaps with those incidents, and with the incidents in Istanbul. Now they have received this blow as the penalty for intending to molest me, God willing, it has made them give up the idea, and has scared and silenced them.
My brothers! Your intelligence and precautions leave no need for my advice concerning your solidarity. But recently I have felt that they are trying to make the Risale‑i Nur students suspicious of one another in order to break their solidarity and blame one another, or accuse such-and-such a student of being a spy so that they fall into dispute and disagreement. Be careful! Even if you see such a thing with your own eyes, don't break their cover. Respond to evil with good. But be extremely cautious and don't give away any secrets. Anyway, we don't have any secrets, but there are suspicious people in abundance. If such a thing should happen and one of the students is an agent, try to reform him. Don't rend the veil and break his cover.
Your cohesion, especially that of the Isparta School, has acquitted both the Risale‑i Nur, and its students, and this country. Also, your unanimity, enthusiasm, and endeavour are of the greatest importance since they encourage others everywhere to work at the Risale-i Nur. May Almighty God grant you persistence and success in this service of belief. Amen. Amen.
I send greetings to each and every one of all the groups of my brothers, and offer prayers for them and request their prayers.
Saîd Nursî
We are absolutely certain about what our Master has written about the fire; we saw it with our own eyes.
Osman, Mehmed, Hasan, Ceylan, and İbrahim, who assists them