"I am without will; I seek recourse, I seek forgiveness,
I seek help from Your Court, O God!
"Suddenly the light of belief, the effulgence of the Qur'an, and the grace of the Most Merciful came to my aid. It transformed those five dark exiles into five luminous and familiar spheres. My tongue said:
"God is enough for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs.
"While my heart recited the verse:
"And if they turn away, say: God is enough for me, there is
no god but He; in Him do I place my my trust, for He is the
Lord of the Mighty Throne..."
Bediuzzaman goes on to quote lines of poetry, and concludes that: "through impotence and reliance on God, and poverty and seeking refuge with Him, the door of light is opened and the layers of darkness dispersed..." "What does the one who finds God lose? And what does the one who loses Him find?"
And in another letter Bediuzzaman wrote: "I have understood and believe firmly that this world is a guest-house undergoing rapid change. It is not, therefore, the true homeland and everywhere is the same... Since everywhere is a guest-house, if the mercy of the guest-house's Owner befriends one, everyone is a friend and everywhere is friendly. If it does not befriend one. everywhere is a load on the heart and everyone an enemy."

• Abdurrahman’s Death and Bediuzzaman's Students

These letters were written to Hulisi Yahyagil, "the first student of the Risale-i Nur". Then serving as a captain in the army stationed at Egridir, he first visited Bediuzzaman in the spring of 1929. From Elazig in eastern 'Turkey, he was to perform enormous