بِاسْمِهِ سُبْحَانَهُ

My ‘Azîz, Siddîq Brothers!

Today, due to a ma’nawî warning, I felt anxiety and grief for you. Just at the moment when I was deeply grieving and suffering the pain of our brothers, who are anxious about their livelihoods and want to be released quickly, a blessed memory, a haqiqah and some good tidings came to my heart: after five days, the truly blessed three months, which are the months of ‘ibâdah that contain great sawâb, will begin. As for the sawâb of each good deed, it is tenfold at other times; in the month of the noble Rajab, it is more than a hundredfold; in the mighty Sha'ban, it exceeds three hundredfold; and in the blessed Ramadhan, it reaches a thousandfold; while on Juma nights in Ramadhan, it reaches thousands, and on the Night of Qadr, it reaches thirty thousand. It is certainly very profitable to spend those three months, which are thus a sacred market for the trade of the âkhirah that causes one to earn plentiful benefits and an exceptional exhibition for the people of haqiqah and the people of ‘ibâdah, and which secure a life of eighty years for the people of îmân in three months, in this Madrasa of Yûsuf (as), where the profits multiply tenfold. All the hardships suffered are pure rahmah. Just as regarding ‘ibâdah, it is thus, so regarding the service of the Nur — with respect not to quantity but quality — it is fivefold because people who continuously enter and are released from this guest house are the means of the Nur’s lessons being disseminated. Sometimes one man's ikhlas gives the benefits of twenty men. Furthermore, according to the Nur's mystery of ikhlas, it is of no importance if there is a little hardship and trouble within the dissemination of the Nur's solace among the helpless prisoners, who are much in need of those solaces and possess the vein of political heroism. Regarding the trouble of livelihood: since these three months are a market for the âkhirah, each of you entered this place in place of numerous others and some of you entered this place in place of a thousand men, they will help in your works outside; I felt perfectly at ease and understood that being here until 'Eid is a great ni’mah.

              Said Nursî

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بِاسْمِهِ سُبْحَانَهُ وَاِنْ مِنْ شَيْءٍ اِلاَّ يُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدِهِ

اَلسَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَ رَحْمَةُ اللّٰهِ وَ بَرَكَاتُهُ اَبَدًا دَائِمًا

My ‘Azîz, Siddîq Brothers!

We congratulate your blessed, noble Ramadhan with all our hearts and souls. In this noble Ramadhan’s Night of Qadr, may Janâb-i Haqq give the khayr of more than a thousand months’ khayr to all of you and accept it as an eighty-year accepted lifetime. Amîn.

Secondly: I believe that our being here until ‘Eid has numerous benefits and khayr for us. If we were to be released now, we would be deprived of all the khayr of this Madrasa of Yûsuf; due to worldly occupations, our being released would also harm our ma’nawî hudhur and harm the noble Ramadhan, which looks purely to the âkhirah. According to the mystery of   اَلْخَيْرُ فِى مَا اخْتَارَهُ اللّٰهُ1, InshâAllah, there will be great joy full of khayr in this.

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Since the haqiqah is this, it is a great happiness to try not to give importance to these minor temporary hardships with our lessons of ‘ilm and to busy ourselves with our awrâd, the khayr of which increases from one to a thousand in the noble Ramadhan, without anxiety and with caution, through perfect patience and shukr, with submission and tawakkul to Ilahî qadar and qadhâ2 that have been decreed for us and to the ‘inâyah of Allah that protects us, with consoling, sincere, mutually supporting and genuine friendship, love and conversation with our brothers here. The Nur's effective lessons in its most important examination and trial and making the enemies read them are a significant victory for Nur.

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It was decreed in sahîh riwâyât, "Seek the Night of Qadr in the second half of Ramadhan, especially in the last ten days." Since it is probably in the coming nights, in places full of sawâb like these, it is a great happiness to work to profit from it, which causes a person to gain a lifetime of more than eighty years of ‘ibâdah.

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Since there is a strong possibility that tomorrow night3 is the Night of Qadr, some of the mujtahids have assigned the Night of Qadr to tomorrow. Even if it is not in fact, since the ummah considers that night to be so, InshâAllah, it will be accepted as such.

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