My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
Compelled by my indisposition, I am this time sufficing with a single letter in reply to your numerous letters.
Firstly: The Risale‑i Nur champion Husrev wants seriously and sincerely to become ill and die in my place. So I say: the present is the time for disseminating and spreading the Risale-i Nur, not for composing it. However much more beneficial your writing is than my writing, and your publishing and dissemination, to that extent your life is more useful for the Risale-i Nur's service than my torturous life. If I had the power, I would happily give you of my life and health.
Secondly: The brilliant ode and fourth lengthy poem Hasan Feyzi, fully an heir of the late martyr Hâfız Ali, wrote in the name of Denizli and all our serious brothers in that region, are a salve for my severe illness and poisoning, as is the fact that the students there are also working diligently. Endless thanks be to the Most Merciful of the Merciful, for they turn Denizli into a second Isparta and a large İslamköyü.
The just judge Muharrem and Feyzi and Hâfız Mustafa have performed twenty years of service for the Risale‑i Nur in one or two years and have made all the students of the Risale-i Nur eternally indebted to them. May God Almighty be pleased with them and with all those who have worked together with them, for ever and ever! Amen!
Thirdly: The truly sincere, sad letter of condolence in the name of the Nur School sent by Marangoz Ahmed (the Carpenter), who is one of its champions and fully an heir of Marangoz Mustafa Çavuş and Hâfız Mehmed of Barla, made me weep for joy. So I say: Since there are numerous Saids, young and old, in that blessed school, it is of no importance if one elderly, powerless Said whose duties are finished is missing. Even if there is temporary parting, it shouldn't grieve you, for we shall all be together in everlasting life.
Fourthly: M. H. R. M., , who after the just judge has striven most for true justice and the Risale‑i Nur's freedom, is among the most sincere of the students and together with his namesake and my own brother and first student, Molla Mehmed, is in my prayers and shares in my spiritual gains.
Fifthly: In connection with my will and in the style of Halil İbrahim and Hasan Feyzi, Sabri of Konya has also composed a short but fine ode which accords his Master excessive value. In the shining mirror of his own good will, he gave this wretched brother of his extraordinary worth. He writes too that the religious scholars are earnestly writing out the Risale‑i Nur.
So I say: The person he calls Master and accords such worth to could only be the Risale‑i Nur's collective personality. So I accepted his ode in its name and added it to The Additional Letters. I am also sending you a copy.
Don't worry, my illness is slowly disappearing. Together with theirs, was a sincere, but strange letter from one of our brothers called Ispartalı Mustafa. Which Mustafa is this? I did not know, but send him many greetings. His extraordinary dream is auspicious, but I can't interpret it for now.
I send greetings to each and every one of all my brothers and sisters, and pray for them, and await their acceptable prayers.
We have added a few words to Hasan Feyzi's fine ode and included it in The Additional Letters, and are also sending it to you.
Saîd Nursî