dead and Great Gathering will occur as certainly as day follows night and spring follows winter.

FIFTH PHRASE: ‘You alone do we worship and from You alone do we seek help.’

It occurred to me that before pointing out the proof contained in this phrase, I should relate a true journey of the imagination which is described in the Twenty-Ninth Letter. It was like this:

As is explained in the Risale-i Nur, and especially in the Qur’anic commentary, Signs of Miraculousness (Isharat al-I‘jaz) and The Eight Symbols (Rumûz-u Semâniye), one time when I was seeking out the Qur’an’s miracles I found four or five miraculous predictions at the end of Sura al-Fath and an historical miracle in the verse: This day We shall save you in your body,9 and even flashes of miraculousness in numerous other words and sometimes miraculous points in letters. Then, when reciting Sura al-Fatiha during the prayers, a question occurred to me in order to inform me of a miracle in the Nun of na‘budu and nasta‘in ([You alone] do we worship [and from You alone] do we seek help).

Why was it not “You alone do I worship and from You alone do I seek help,” rather than the first person plural, that is, “We worship You and We seek help from You”? Suddenly the broad arena of a journey of the imagination opened up through the door of that “Nun” (we). I understood experientially the mighty mystery and vast benefits of praying in congregation, and that this single letter is a miracle, and I actually saw this. It was as follows:

At that time while performing the prayers in Bayezid Mosque in Istanbul, I said: “You alone do we worship and from You alone do we seek help.” I looked and saw that the congregation in the mosque was saying “Guide us!” the same as me; its members were all participating in my supplication, corroborating it. Then another veil was drawn back. I saw that all the mosques in Istanbul had as though become a huge Bayezid Mosque. All their congregations were exclaiming: “You alone do we worship and from You alone do we seek help” like me, setting their seals on my assertions and