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.

S a i d N u r s i

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

Don’t worry about me, I am pleased and happy just to be together with you in the same building.

Our task now: one set of my defence speeches should be sent to Isparta. If possible, twenty copies should be made both in the new letters, and by duplicating machine in the old. It should even be shown to the public prosecutor there. A copy should also be given to our lawyer in person, and another copy given to the prison governor, which he should give to our defence lawyer. It should also be sent in both the new letters and the old to the departments of government in Ankara, as it was sent while we were in Denizli. If possible, five copies should be prepared to send to Ankara. For the copies of the Risale-i Nur in the old letters which were seized, were sent to those departments, and particularly to the Directorate of Religious Affairs, before being sent here. Also, tell our lawyer, Ahmed Bey, that when writing out my defence on the typewriter to pay especial attention to