In His Name, be He glorified!
Peace be upon you and God's mercy and blessings, for ever and ever!
My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
Firstly: We congratulate you on the Three Months and the holy nights, which may win an everlasting life of eighty years, and on the Nights of Regâib, the Ascension (Mirac), Acquittal, and Power (Kader); and we request of divine mercy that the spiritual gains and supplications of each of the Nurju brothers will be accepted for all of them; and we congratulate you on your achievements in the service of the Risale‑i Nur.
Secondly: So that you will not pity me too much, I am telling you that the calamity of the total loss of memory I am suffering due to having been poisoned is in fact a bounty and instance of divine mercy for me and a key to disclosing a number of truths. But I still request your prayers with my whole life and spirit.
Yes, I have just read the invocations at the beginning of The Shining Lamp (Siracü 'n‑Nur) and I saw that many wondrous truths are concealed beneath the veils of familiarity, habit, and monotony. Especially irreligious naturalists, philosophers, and the neglectful, they ascribe truths as huge as mountains to common causes as tiny as atoms, and fail to see the numerous miracles of divine power beneath the veils of the laws of divine practice. They thus block up the paths in everything to knowledge of the Absolutely Powerful One. They are blind to bounties in everything and close up the doors of thanks and praise.
For example, just as the manifestation of divine power may inscribe a single word on the page of the air as a million, or millions, of words; so, as intimated by the verse, Unto Him ascend all good words , nonmaterial, acceptable truths are inscribed by the pen of power, all together and instantaneously, in the globe of the atmosphere, yet this extraordinary miracle of power is hidden from the view of the neglectful, although it has continued since the time of Adam. And now, it is established through the same truth, which they call the radio, that the manifestation of an infinite pre‑eternal power which comprises a limitless knowledge, wisdom, and will, is present and seeing in every atom of the air, for although the infinite numbers of different words enter the miniscule ears of each atom and emerge from their infinitesmal tongues, they do not get mixed up, nor are they spoiled or confused.
That is to say, because, even if all causes were to gather together, they could in no way achieve the manifestation of sacred power in the natural duties of a single atom and could in no way interfere in the wondrous art in the infinitesimal ears and tongues of all atoms, the people of misguidance and neglect have hidden them under the veil of familiarity, habit, laws, and monotony, and attaching some common name to them, have temporarily deceived themselves.
For example, as is explained in the note to the Addendum to the Four‑teenth Word, if an exceptionally skilful artisan were to make a hundred pounds of foods and a hundred yards of cloth out of a small chip of wood, then someone were to say, pointing to the chip: “All these things are natural and appeared out of this by chance,” thus completely disregarding all the wondrous arts and skills of the master, it would be delirious stupidity and demented misguidance. In just the same way, to ascribe to two seeds like peas such miracles of power as the pine and fig trees, which comprise thousands of wondrous arts, and say: “They came out of these;” or to attach the name “radio” to a gift of the Most Merciful which makes the globe of the atmosphere into a conference hall and the face of the earth into a schoolroom and place of instruction and knowledge, comprising uncountable bounties and requiring endless thanks, and is indubitably an advance (muaccel) sample of the divine favours to be bestowed in everlasting happiness for man — to merely use the word radio and talk of electricity and airwaves for what is directly bestowed from the treasury of mercy, thus drawing a veil of ingratitude over those innumerable bounties, is a grotesque adsurdity of the naturalists and materialists, as in the example above, which being an infinite crime, makes them deserving of infinite punishment.
My brothers! In truth, today I read the invocation at the beginning of The Shining Lamp with the intention of correcting it. Because my memory had deserted me completely, I was confronted with the invocation's truths as though I had newly come into the world at eighty years of age, unacquainted with familiarity and habit, so they did not act as veil. I read it with fervour and pleasure, and benefited enormously. I considered it quite marvellous. And I understood that our covert enemies had deceived certain officials, and making a pretext of the end part of The Shining Lamp, had seized it, but in fact they were trying to prevent the spread of the Invocation at the beginning of it. That is, the Invocation is a reason for the irreligious attacking The Shining Lamp, just as with “A Point About the Air” in A Guide for Youth.
Thirdly: I give the good news with all my life and spirit that by reason of the maximum sincerity of the Nur students, and their geniune loyalty and unshakeable solidarity, all the calamities that have befallen us have been transformed into vast bounties, and beneath the veil, the Risale‑i Nur is making unimaginable conquests.
For example, a hundred liras were necessarily given for the car to bring me to the court here, that is, Istanbul, from Isparta. I can assure you that if I had given two thousand liras just for this question and for the resulting service which concerned only the Guide and my own person and had occurred and were beginning to occur. The results concerning people at large may be compared with this.
The Enduring One, He is the Enduring One!Your ill brother who is in need of your prayers,Saîd Nursî