Risale-i Nur/The Rays/The Thirteenth Ray (s:333)

.econd I said, offering supplications and glorifications with hundreds of tongues body {font-family:'Thorndale AMT',serif;font-size:12.0pt} h1 {margin-left:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-top:0.0835in;margin-bottom:0.0in;border:none;padding:0;text-indent:0.2957in;text-align:justify;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic;font-size:12.0pt;color:#000000;clear:left} econd I said, offering supplications and glorifications with hundreds of tongues... till the end. Some is missing here, it should be: Each one of us, according to his degree, offers... with hundreds of tongues... and so on.Also, a venerable elderly man from the village of Sava, to which I am very attached, was handcuffed to me and we came together; it pleased me greatly and I understood from it the village’s strong attachment to me. I send special greetings to that brother.* * *My Dear Brother!The verse, And even thus did the rejecters of God perish [utterly]1 indicates the allusion of By [the token of] time [through the ages], * Verily man is in loss,2that all the wars and destruction of the infidels have caused untold damage and loss. There is also an indication in the phrase Wa’l-‘Asr (By [the token of] time) which points to the date 1360 according to the Rumi calendar, in which year dissemblers and disbelievers would attack the Risale-i Nur, but they would be the losers. For the Risale-i Nur is a cause of calamities like earthquake and war abating. It may be a concealed sign that its ceasing from activity attracts disaster. S a i d N u r s i* * *My Dear Brothers!It is my guess that our final and true defence will be the short treatise that is the fruit of Denizli Prison. For the extensive plots hatched against us over the past year, originally due to unfounded suspicions, are the following: they attacked us on baseless pretexts such as founding a sufi order, establishing a secret society, being a tool of external forces, exploiting religious feelings for political ends, working against the Republic, meddling in government and breaching public security. Thanks be to Almighty God, their plans failed. Other than the truths of belief and the Qur’an, study of the hereafter, and working for everlasting bliss, they found nothing, even over such an extensive area, among hundreds of students, in hundreds of treatises, in the letters and books written over a

Qur’an, 40:85.

Qur’an, 103:1-2.

Risale-i Nur/The Letters/The Nineteenth Letter/The Miracles Of Muhammad (PBUH)/Sixteenth Sign/The Third KindRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Sixth Letter/Fourth TopicRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twentieth LetterRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Second Letter/The Second TopicRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Ninth LetterRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Sixth Letter/Second TopicRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Nineteenth Letter/The Miracles Of Muhammad (PBUH)/Eighth SignRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Second LetterRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Ninth Letter/Fifth SectionRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Fourth Letter/Second AddendumRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Eighth Letter/First MatterRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Nineteenth Letter/The Miracles Of Muhammad (PBUH)/Eighteenth SignRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Nineteenth Letter/The Miracles Of Muhammad (PBUH)/Fifteenth Sign/The Third BranchRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Ninth LetterRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Nineteenth Letter/The Miracles Of Muhammad (PBUH)/Fifth SignRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Ninth LetterRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Eighth Letter/Fourth MatterRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Ninth Letter/Second SectionRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Sixteenth Letter/Addendum To The Sixteenth LetterRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Eighteenth Letter/The Second/An Addendum To The Second MatterRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Ninth LetterRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Ninth Letter/Second SectionRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Ninth Letter/Second SectionRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Third Letter/Fifth QuestionRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Eighth Letter/Third MatterRisale-i Nur/The Letters/Seeds Of RealityRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Ninth Letter/Ninth Section/Third AllusionRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Ninth Letter/Ninth Section/Eighth AllusionRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Ninth Letter/Ninth Section/Eighth AllusionRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Nineteenth Letter/The Miracles Of Muhammad (PBUH)/Fifteenth Sign/The Third BranchRisale-i Nur/The Letters/Seeds Of RealityRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Ninth Letter/A Sacred DateRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Nineteenth Letter/The Miracles Of Muhammad (PBUH)/First Addendum To The Miracles Of MuhammadRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twentieth LetterRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Nineteenth Letter/The Miracles Of Muhammad (PBUH)/Fourteenth SignRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Sixth Letter/Third TopicRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Nineteenth Letter/The Miracles Of Muhammad (PBUH)/Fifth SignRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Eighteenth Letter/The SecondRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Second LetterRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Second LetterRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Ninth LetterRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Nineteenth Letter/The Miracles Of Muhammad (PBUH)/Nineteenth SignRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Second Letter/The Second TopicRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Nineteenth Letter/The Miracles Of Muhammad (PBUH)/Fifteenth Sign/The Second BranchRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Ninth LetterRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-Ninth Letter/Ninth Section/Seventh AllusionRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Nineteenth Letter/The Miracles Of Muhammad (PBUH)/Second SignRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Nineteenth Letter/The Miracles Of Muhammad (PBUH)/First Addendum To The Miracles Of MuhammadRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twenty-First LetterRisale-i Nur/The Letters/The Twentieth Letter/Addendum To The Tenth Phrase Of The Twentieth Letter