In His Name, be He glorified!
And there is nothing but it glorifies Him with praise.
Peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings, for ever and ever!
Our Most Beloved, Blessed, Highly‑Valued, Kindly Master!
Our revered Master, who has completely abandoned his own will and left all matters to dominical will, who sees the mercy and wisdom of divine determining in every apparent calamity and hardship, and with perfect trust and submission awaits in perfect patience the results of that dominical manifestation! In this terrible century when in some places the things on which the believers rely have begun to crumble, and with publications opposing the pillars of belief the deniers of Allah the Most High flaunt themselves openly and arrogantly, and to act in opposition to the Qur’an’s commands and not believe in spiritual forces, and to ascribe the right of creation to unconscious, blind, deaf nature are considered marks of civilization and of being cultured and intellectual – at such a time, our gracious Master wrote the Risale‑i Nur, a miracle of the Qur’an, and offering its soothing cures to agitated, wretched hearts needy for the water of life of belief, gave them the good news of eternal happiness. On its highway of reality which proves its teachings with decisive, categorical arguments and proofs, and through the mystery of our Illustrious Leader (UWBP), to whom refers the cause is like the doer, the equivalent of all the good deeds performed by hundreds of thousands of Risale‑i Nur students who have saved their belief through the Risale‑i Nur has passed to the register of his good deeds!
Just as in Denizli Prison Allah the Most High bestowed The Fruits of Belief, whose remedies were sufficiently efficacious to reduce to nothing the distress of the incarceration, and that rose’s sweet scent eliminated all the pains of its thorns, dispelling all our temporary distress; so too here in Afyon Prison, the physical discomforts of one day of which are equal to a month’s discomfort in Denizli Prison, the Most Munificent and Compassionate One of Beauty has bestowed at the hand of you our beloved Master sublime proofs affirming divine unity and praise, and the messengership of Muhammad (UWBP), which are cures and antidotes. We most faulty students of yours, who through the effulgences of the Risale‑i Nur have learnt to read and write, consider these three short treatises to be both conclusive proofs of the Risale‑i Nur’s veracity and a sort of summary of it, in the same way that the programme and index of a mighty pine tree is encapsulated in its seed.
We are incapable of describing the virtues of these three treatises, but on reading them our spirits experience a powerful relief, our physical sufferings are transformed into joy, and they bring us innumerable fruits from the garden of belief. With its eleven proofs of divine unity, the first of them dispels the darknesses of disbelief, misguidance, and nature at this time. The second expounds with sacred proofs of belief, Sura al‑Fatiha, the source, basis, and master of all the comparisons in the Risale‑i Nur. And the third explains brilliantly in a way that ensures complete certitude the part about the messengership of Muhammad (UWBP), which was imparted to you, our beloved Master, here in Afyon Prison.
Although we are in no way worthy of anything, we shall strive with all our power to publish these works, which we have received. Offering endless thanks to Allah the Most High, we pray to Him saying: “Most Merciful of the Merciful! May You be pleased with our Master for ever and ever!”
The Enduring One, He is the Enduring One!In the name of the Risale‑i Nur students,Zübeyir, Ceylan, Sungur, İbrahim