years their pens worked like a printing press. The Nur Postmen were organized between Kastamonu and Inebolu. And the various treatises of the Risale-i Nur were sent to Anatolia [by sea] from the port of Inebolu.... These duties were being carried on unceasingly in this way when I saw a duplicating machine in a shop in Istanbul. On learning that it duplicated at the rate of a hundred pages a minute, I bought it immediately and took it to Inebolu. First of all we duplicated the Seventh Ray, The Supreme Sign, which is `the observations of a traveler questioning the universe concerning his Creator.' When I took the first copy to Ustad, he was tremendously pleased. He expressed his feelings at the end of the work with these words:
" `Oh God, grant happiness in Paradise to Nazif Çelebi and his blessed helpers, who have written five hundred copies with one pen!"'
In the villages of Isparta the treatises of the Risale-i Nur were being written out by hand unceasingly. Bedre, Ilema, Kuleönü, Islamköy, Sav, and Atabey; hundreds of people in these villages devoted themselves entirely to writing out the Risale-i Nur. `Nur Exchange' Sabri, the `Jetty Official', in the village of Bedre. The parts of the Risale and Bediuzzaman's letters would come to him. He would make copies immediately and send them by means of `Nur Postmen to Egridir, and from there they would taken to Hafiz Ali in Islamköy. A11 were aware of the urgency of the task. In the village of Sav, and elsewhere, the women in particular dedicated themselves with great devotion to writing, while the shepherds acted as carriers for the written pieces. We learn from one of Bediuzzaman's letters that his student Hüsrev, "one of the heroes of the Risale-i Nur", wrote out in his exceptionally fine hand-writing four hundred copies of various parts of the Risale-i Nur over a period of nine to ten years, as well as three copies of the Qur'an which contained clear examples of the coinciding of Divine Name of Allah (tevafukat).
Bediuzzaman's letters to his students, which, like the Risale-i