permitted to remain with him to attend to his needs. He also acted as `Nur Postman', collecting or distributing the Risale-i Nur as required. In Isparta, Bediuzzaman wrote several more parts of Lem'alar, The Flashes, the third collection of the Risale-i Nur. When completed, The Flashes numbered thirty treatises, and the complete Risale-i Nur, one hundred and Thirty. Bediuzzaman loved the province of Isparta, as the centre from which the Risale-i Nur irradiated by means of his numerous students. He expressed this to a number of them sometime later: "...Because of you, I love Isparta and the surrounding country together with its very stones and soil. I can even say that if the Isparta authorities were to impose a prison sentence on me and another province was to acquit me, I would still choose Isparta..."
In the town of Isparta were some of Bediuzzaman's closest students such as Husrev and Re'fet Bey. They remained with him as far as they were able now that he had been moved there, principally acting as his scribes and writing out copies of the Risale-i Nur. Among Re'fet Bey's reminiscences of this time were these:
"Husrev and I were writing out copies of the Risale. Ustad was in the upstair's room. Suddenly the door clicked and opened, and what did we see but Ustad entering with a tray and two glasses of tea. We were overcome with confusion and embarrassment and sprang to our feet wanting to take the tray from him. But he lifted his hand and said, `No, no. It's me that has to serve you.' My goodness, and he added `has to'. What modesty! What courtesy! I never saw such courtesy and modesty anywhere..."
"We were studying the truths of the Qur'an and writing them. We were benefiting enormously. To tell him this one day, we said to him: `What would we have done, Ustad, if we had not found you?' And again with that tremendous modesty he replied to us: `What would I have done if I had not found you? If you are happy once over that you found ma, I should be happy a thousand times that I found you."'
Of the three parts of the Risale-i Nur written here, among which were the Nineteenth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth Flashes, called