In His Name, be He glorified!
My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
It has become necessary to explain two of my strange and subtle states of mind.
The First: When, being in solitary confinement, I was unable to meet with my brothers such as yourselves, whom I love more than my life, it was imparted to me that there was a divine favour and a benefit in this. For numerous of our brothers of the hereafter were spending fifty liras coming to Emirdağ to see me, for fifty minutes, some for ten minutes, and some returned without seeing me at all, and these they would have thrown into this School of Joseph on some pretext. Even if with my little available time and the state of mind arising from my seclusion I had been able to, the work of serving the Risale‑i Nur would not have permitted me to converse at length with those devoted friends.
Secondly: One time a famous scholar was seen on numerous fronts in the War by those who had gone to the jihad. They said to him… And he replied: “Certain saints are doing this in my place in order to gain reward for me and allow the people of belief to benefit from my teaching.” In exactly the same way, in Denizli it was even made known officially that I had been seen in mosques there, and the governor and warders were informed. Some of them became alarmed, asking, “Who opened the prison gates for him?” Exactly the same thing happened here.
But rather than attributing a very minor wonder to my own very faulty and unimportant self, The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen Collection, which proves and demonstrates the Risale‑i Nur’s wonders, wins confidence in it a hundred or rather a thousand times more, and ratifies its acceptance. And the heroic students of the Risale‑i Nur in particular ratify it with their pens and states, which are truly wonders.
Said Nursi