The Staff of Moses | The Eleventh Topic | 10
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A letter written in the name of all the Risale-i Nur students in İsparta to offer congratulations for Ramadan, which has been amended in thirteen sections
In his Name, be glorified! And there is nothing but it glorifies Him with praise.
Our revered Master, who through the effulgence of the Qur'an and truths of the Risale-i Nur and aspirations of his loyal students weeps tears of blood for the well-being of the Islamic world in this world and the next...
Who in these stormy days of the end of time is beset with more woes and ills than Job (Peace be upon him), and through the light of the Qur'an, the proofs of the Risale-i Nur and efforts of his students works to cure the ills of the Islamic world like Luqman the Wise, and has proved with thirty-three verses of the Qur'an and the wondrous predictions of Imam 'Ali and the Ghawth al-A'zam that the Risale-i Nur with its different parts is truth and reality...
Who although he is himself ill and elderly and weak and in a piteous condition, more than anyone sacrifices his life for the World of Islam and responds to those wrong him with the truths of the Qur'an and proofs of the Risale-i Nur, and through the loyalty of the Risale-i Nur students, with prayers and good works...
Who together with his students was sent to prison because one of his important works. The Supreme Sign, was printed, and through the guidance of the Qur'an and teachings of the Risale-i Nur and enthusiasm of his stu¬dents turned the prison in a School of Joseph and place of learning, and was the cause of all the ignorant among us learning to read the whole Qur'an. and despite being elderly and weak, through the sacred strength of the Qur'an and solace of the Risale-i Nur and endurance of his brothers, took on himself the loads of all of us. and through The Fruits of Belief and Defence Speeches which he wrote, the miraculousness of the Qur'an of Miraculous Exposition, and the powerful proofs of the Risale-i Nur, and sincerity of his students, with Divine permission had the prison door opened and won our acquittals, and made that day a festival for us and for the Islamic world, and proving that in truth the Risale-i Nur is "Light upon light," won the right for it to be read and written out freely till the end of time...
Who has proved with the sacred sustenance of the Qur'an of Mighty Stature and other-worldly food of the Risale-i Nur and appetite of its stu¬dents, that the World of Islam has need for the Risale-i Nur as it does for water and air, and that thousands of those who have read these treatises and written them out have entered the grave in a state of belief, and has never defeated or embarrassed the students who follow him, and through the hea¬venly teachings of the Qur'an. the principles of the Risale-i Nur, the intelli¬gence of its students, and the Tenth and Eleventh Topics of the Fruits of Belief and its flowers quenches the fires of separation that night and day sear our hearts. like the water of life and wine of Kawthar, filling them with joy and happiness...
Who. in accordance with the certain promises and threats of the Qur'an of Mighty Stature and the certain discoveries of the Risale-i Nur and the observations of its late students and those among them who divine the hap¬penings of the grave, has for the believers saved death —the thing most feared by ail the world— from being eternal annihilation and transformed it into a discharge from duties and shown that for the unbelievers and dissem¬blers it is eternal annihilation; has proved in accordance with the certain news of the Qur'an of Miraculous Exposition, confirmed both by the thou¬sand miracles of Muhammad (Peace and blessings be upon him) and its forty aspects of miraculousness, and endorsed by the proofs of the Risale-i Nur —which proceeds from the Qur'an— which have defeated even its most obdurate enemies and are submitted to by the Risale-i Nur students, and are corroborated too by many signs, experiences, and convictions, that the terrifying, cold, dark and narrow grave is for the believers a pit of Para¬dise and a door onto the gardens of Paradise, while for the disbelievers and dissembling atheists is a pit of Hell full of snakes and scorpions; and has made the angels called Munkar and Nakir. who will enter there, familiar companions for the people of truth and those who have taken the way of reality; and included the Risale-i Nur students among 'students of the relig¬ious sciences,' and discovered on the death of the late heroic martyr Hafız Ali that they reply to the questions of Munkar and Nakir with the Risale-i Nur, and who beseeches Divine mercy that those of us who are still living will also reply with the Risale-i Nur...
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