only their prayers that had saved him from "the severe illness" he had suffered. Notwithstanding his wretched state - indeed perhaps because of it, since many parts of the Risale-i Nur were written when Bediuzzaman was suffering severe illness or distress - Bediuzzaman wrote the `Tenth Matter' of the Fruits of Belief, the first nine of which had been written in Denizli Prison. "An extremely powerful reply to objections raised about repetition in the Qur'an", he wrote that he reckoned he had been inspired to write it because of "dissemblers, who, like silly children trying to extinguish the sun of the Qur'an by blowing at it", were attempting to have the Qur'an translated in order to discredit it, having "taken lessons" from "a most dreadful and obdurate atheist", by which he probably meant Mustafa Kemal. Bediuzzaman wrote also in the above-mentioned letter that he was sending them this '1 cnth Matter.
When writing tohis students in Isparta at the end of March the following year, Bediuzzaman told them that he was sending them "a further part of `The Fruit' concerning the Angels." This was the Eleventh and final part of the the Ela,enth Ray, the Fruits of Belief.ii The Risale-i Nur was approaching its completion at this time. With the exception of Elhüccetü'z-Zehra written in Afyon Prison, The Fruits of Belief was the last main piece to be written, and subsequent to this the Risale-i Nur was largely published in the form of collections.
At this time, the battle against atheism and unbelief was for the main part carried out with two collections, the Staff of Moses (Asd-yi MAsa) and Zülfikar. The first part of the Staff of Moses consisted of the eleven parts of the Fruits of Belief, and second, of eleven pieces from various parts of the Risale-i Nur, including the First Station of the Supreme Sign and the Treatise on Nature. Zülfikar consisted of the Nineteenth Letter, the Miracles of Muhammed, and the Twenty-Fifth Word, the Miraculousness of the Qur'an. Also, printed in 1947 in Eskisehir was A Guide for Youth, the collection mentioned in a previous chapter made up largely of pieces written originally for the schoolboys who became Bediuzzaman's students in Kastamonu.