Letters ( revised ) | THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LETTER | 432
(399-446)
I am of the opinion that the ill-treatment was very often visited on me by a hand of favour under the veil of unjust oppression, compassionately,  in order to focus my thought on the mysteries of the Qur’an and restrict it and not allow my mind to be distracted. And being prevented from studying all other books, despite formerly having great desire to study, I felt an aloofness towards them in my spirit. I understood that I had been made to give up studying, which would have been a solace and familiar  in my exile, so that the  verses  of the Qur’an should be my absolute master directly.

Furthermore, the great majority of the works that have been written, the treatises, have  been  bestowed  instantaneously  and  suddenly  in  consequence  of  some  need arising from my spirit,  not from any outside  cause. Then when afterwards  I have shown them to friends, they have said that they are the remedy for the wounds of the present time. And having been disseminated, I have understood from most of my brothers that they meet the needs of the times exactly and are like a cure for every ill.

I have no doubt therefore that the above-mentioned points and the course of my life  and  my involuntarily  studying  fields  of learning  opposed  to  normal  practice, outside my own will and awareness, were a powerful divine favour and dominical bounty bestowed to yield sacred results such as these.

 

SEVENTH SIGN

 

In the course of our work over the past five to six years, without exaggeration we have seen with our own eyes a hundred instances of divine bestowal and dominical favour  and  wonders  of  the  Qur’an.  We  have  pointed  out  some  of  them  in  the Sixteenth Letter, and others we have described in the various matters of the Fourth Topic  of the  Twenty-Sixth  Letter,  and  in the  Third  Matter  of the Twenty-Eighth Letter.  My close  friends  know  these,  and  Süleyman  Efendi,  my constant  friend, knows  many  of  them.  We  experience  an  extraordinary  and  wondrous  ease  in spreading  the  Words in particular  and other  treatises,  and in correcting  them,  and putting them in order, and in the rough and final drafts. I have no doubt that this is a wonder of the Qur’an. There have been hundreds of instances of it.

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