Mektubâtü’n-Nur

O Great Master; the Word that has come to Atabey as the fruit of Ramadan and that conveys the wisdoms of the Noble Ramadan, is warning us and unveiling the hidden wisdoms we do not know. Every Word I read, my tongue, which is incapable, cannot describe or adequately appreciate the lofty truths you have revealed. And I see, understand, and believe so firmly that a time will come when this Risalatü'l-Envar and Mektubatü'n-Nur will become a powerful source of light and energy, like a mountain burning with inner fire, radiating a luminous power. And perhaps it already has. It will illuminate distant places with the light of guidance and warning, just as pressing a button on an electric dynamo can flood every corner with electricity. An old student of the Light, The late Lütfi's friend Zeki • • •

Barla Lâhikası ·Mektup 78 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

It is Sabri's joke. O Master Eyyühel, I congratulate you on your blessed Festival of Fitr and kiss your noble hands and arms with reverence. O my Master, my humble soul, ever adorned with Lights, while awaiting another Light on the previous Friday, was overwhelmed with joy and gratitude when you kindly sent me the Third Part of the Twenty-Ninth Letter. This precious and meaningful work, which remained with me for only an hour, was immediately taken away by Abdullah. I cannot express the valuable patterns and meaningful meanings of this dream-like work that have been in my mind for a week, due to my helplessness. I can only say that this precious work, which contains all the evidences, proofs, and witnesses, is actually comprehensive and inclusive. This precious work is like the sun of the entire Risale-i Nur and Mektubat-ı Nur, which have amazing miracles that astonish the worlds and have been acknowledged and appreciated by friends and enemies alike. It seems that all the beauties and virtues of these previous luminous works have gathered in this part. Or I can say that whenever I see a treatise from the Lights, I see a true and boundless joy and pleasure, perhaps even more so. Therefore, I am convinced that these extraordinary and witnessed qualities are a unique and exclusive privilege of the Lights, and similarly, a unique miracle of the Lights, and I believe that the people of faith will have a complete conviction in this. The Holy Qur'an, which has been meticulously and clearly written with its coincidences and interpretations, will be received with the utmost perfection and infinite respect by all the people of faith and unity, just as many people will, in their later years, be inspired and strive to read it again. I sincerely wish for the emergence of many more such works and pray to the True and Generous Lord for success, O my Master. 1. The Everlasting is the Everlasting. Hafız Sabri • • •

Barla Lâhikası ·Mektup 87 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

The times when I am successful in fulfilling the great command of goodness—such as studying and transcribing the Mektubatü'n-Nur, and to the extent possible, disseminating and spreading it to others—thanks to the strength of the Samedanî, divine care and grace, and the bounty and generosity of the Lord. During these moments, I personally, this poor one, benefits, is relieved, and is assisted. For this reason, I consider these times as very blessed, and with all my heart and soul, I long for their continuation, repetition, and never-ending existence. But alas, in the short moments I can manage, I purify my mind and raise it before the Nurlar, and thus before the miracles of the Qur'an, the school of my noble and respected Master, before the blessed garden of the Prophet of the Two Lands, our Master Muhammad (peace be upon him), and finally before the presence of the Almighty and Exalted Lord of the Worlds. For this reason, I truly say, "The times when I am not engaged with those Nurlar, may they be deprived of the essence of life." Hulûsi • • •

Barla Lâhikası ·Mektup 19 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

It is Sabri's letter. This time, I bought and read the Fourth Part of the Index of the Book of the Manifest, which contains a summary of the Book of the Manifest, together with the selected chapters of the Manifest Book. I offered countless prayers to its author, scribe, publisher, and assistants. Indeed, within the two hours I spent reading, I felt as if I had benefited and been enlightened by reading the entirety of the Letters of Light and the Epistles of Light. And I said: As indicated in your generous letters, we should not limit ourselves to four copies, but rather, for a few months, and preferably for each duty, we should strive to revise and publish the Index. Since our aim is to spread the truths of the Qur'an, this blessed and precious work is the essence and summary of the Qur'anic truths, and if it is permissible to say so, it is a complete distillation and the key to success and the lamp of victories. My beloved master; from the beginning, as you have created these precious works with divine inspiration, you have also included this imperfect student as a recipient and have sent and explained each work to me. However, at that time, due to my unintentional state of being in darkness in front of the light, the curtain between me and the lights had not opened. Now, thanks to the weakening of those negative, opposing, and destructive currents, the doors to the infinite lights of the Qur'an have opened, praise be to Allah. I am once again reading and writing the scattered works that were spread during those times of darkness. Describing the value of these treatises and the blessings and grace they bestow is beyond the capacity of speech and writing. To truly appreciate and understand these blessed and sacred revelations and signs of the Qur'an, one must be a true guide of the Qur'an. For all the words and expressions in these treasures of true life and eternal knowledge are unique and original in every aspect, encompassing perfection, eloquence, and majesty, and are full of awe and wonder, and are a special and unique artistry of the Beautiful and the Wise. In short: This

Barla Lâhikası ·Mektup 165 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

Dear Esteemed Master; I am presenting the thirty-second word, composed of three verses that I was able to write this time, for your review and correction. Is it necessary to mention that I believe this book is a hidden treasure in my humble opinion? Those who claim that the world cannot be measured and that the human mind is an immeasurable land have spoken truly! At this point, my thought is a result of the gradual development of my ideas and the expansion of my limited imagination. It is not my intention to explain that the world is an immeasurable void and the human mind is boundless. Thus, from each treatise, my soul draws its own nourishment. Is it not the pure serenity and eternal joy that the thirty-second word has bestowed upon my heart and soul that causes me to trouble you with this long letter to express my joy? In short, I am content with my life in a sweet serenity. May God willing, with the power of your prayers, I will reach eternal life in such a legitimate serenity, God willing. Ahmed Zekâi • • •

Barla Lâhikası ·Mektup 81 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

It is a saying of Hafiz Ali. O Esteemed Master: This century's foggy, ambiguous seeker, the fruit of the tree of creation, which is the human being, whose core, essence, and purpose are lost and transient, filled with degradation and pride, superficiality and falsehood, inertia and bestiality, greed and animal instincts, confusion and nothingness, and while the majority of that fruit is dying and the minority is also dying and perishing at the moment, I have, with the blessed work named "Tiryak Nodalities," drawn from the words of the Qur'an, the perfect and complete speech of the Supreme Wise, near the center of the mentioned tree, which is likened to the Isparta branch, and with each Nota's thousands of letter-drops, I have come to the aid of the Earth's garden, bringing life to thousands of fruits, and thus, like a source, this blessed work will continue to flow with a miraculous blessing and an irreplaceable stream until the Day of Judgment. Praise be to Allah, I have completed it. Yes, O Master, just as, "And among His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the diversity of your languages and your colors." (1) This verse, one of the thousands of proofs of the noble verse, shows that while each individual of the human species has many delicate features and mechanisms such as face, voice, appearance, and character, each person is unique and does not resemble another, and each individual is a world in itself, and thus, those who have the necessary awareness must accept that each is the property, creation, and appointed servant of the One, the Unique, the Eternal. Indeed, each part of the Words and the Writings of the Light, which are the life essence of the Qur'an of the Wise, reveals the incredible enchantment of the world of manifestations, which is infinite in power within its own world and is a world within thousands of worlds. Each treatise is the key to a mystery and the breath of life. From now on, there is a need to write and record thousands of divine blessings and mercies of the Sublime, for they are waiting like a dark world for the rays of that sun of truth. I hope that the Lord Almighty will extend the Resalat al-Nur, which in such a blessed time, through many aspects like the wonders of the staff of Moses, has caused and will cause great openings. Amen, amen, amen... Your imperfect student Ali (may Allah have mercy on him) • • •

Barla Lâhikası ·Mektup 275 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

It is a joke by Ahmed Hüsrev. 2 And indeed, everything praises Him with His praise, in His name. Peace be upon you, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings as the number of the atoms of all beings forever 3 My esteemed Master; it was two days before the date of the letter. I was occupied with writing the Third Appendix of the Twenty-seventh Letter. The fervent love of my brothers such as Hulusi and Bey Re'fet, Zekai and Sabri, for the Message of Nur and the Letters of Nur, and their passionate pens expressing their heartfelt desires, also moved me to excitement. At that moment, Bekir Ağa came with a letter from you. Bekir Ağa was very handsome, as if his beauty defied description. We opened the letter together with the same joy after the greeting. With the help of a single leaf of noble writings, the Eighth Allusion of the Twenty-ninth Letter's Eighth Part, consisting of eight pages, revealed itself with its eightfold harmony. The joyful excitement of the heart, derived from the Third Appendix of the Twenty-seventh Letter, and the beloved face of Bekir Ağa, showing his heartfelt longing for the Master and the Nurlar, and the Eighth Allusion, which shows the purpose of the harmony we have been waiting for four months, the beloved Master's face shining with a spiritual light and smiling, that high, most wonderful, sweet word, gave rise to such a magnificent state in your poor student that indeed, that moment was one of those moments experienced by those who have attained eternal happiness. In this joy, I read your letter and the Eighth Allusion. While reading, at the end of each sentence, the exclamations "Exist, be blessed, be happy, my Master!" were involuntarily flowing from my tongue, translating into my heart. I read it once with Bekir Ağa, once with my brother Rüştü Efendi, and once with my brother Re'fet Bey. Yes, beloved Master, for years you have revealed the hidden treasures buried in the ocean of the Qur'an al-Azim al-Burhan, through the Message of Nur and the Letters of Nur. Now, with the grace of God, another great treasure is appearing in the Eighth Allusion of the Eighth Part of the Twenty-ninth Letter, shining with the brightest and dazzling lights, revealing itself. The human eye

Barla Lâhikası ·Mektup 96 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

It is a joke by Husrev. My esteemed and beloved Master; we have read the third part of the Twenty-Ninth Letter. The letter's eloquence stirred us all with excitement and filled our hearts with joy. On one hand, with the sparks from some verses of the Holy Qur'an, it dares to challenge the materialists and their like-minded groups who have closed their eyes to reason, striking their heads with the truths of the Nur Epistles and the Risalat al-Nur, and on the other hand, it fills their hearts with very bright rays. Not eighteen thousand, but as my beloved Master has commanded, twenty-eight thousand, those who look upon the great Divine Criterion, some important points of whose aspects look not only to this age but also to the coming ages, and the coincidences occurring in the words of Allah, which are striking and eye-catching in form, and the meaningful coincidences in some words, which manifest their beauty—regarding these, I join my Master's views, not being worthy of it, yet with the strength and courage I have received from my Master. I declare, with humility, that I am ready for any sacrifice in writing such a noble Qur'an, which fills me from head to toe with this spiritual joy. Moreover, I say that I very much wish to write and present a noble Qur'an by my own hand for my beloved Master in the desired manner. However, I could not consider the necessity of the matter. Also, because my other brothers would be deprived of this honor, I cannot insist on the acceptance of this idea and this wish. Yes, my beloved Master, may God will it, the time has come close. May God will it, we have also reached the destined time. Now the reason is that the decision of the pious predecessors not to add anything to the Qur'an as a commentary belongs to their time, and the support of the later scholars is considered to stem from the idea that the study of the Arabic language was not pursued. Therefore, we are in a time when the Arabic language is not desired to be read or written. Therefore, regarding the thoughts of my beloved Master on the Qur'an, a very great

Barla Lâhikası ·Mektup 82 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

The copies of the Letters of Light sent this time are as beautiful, pleasing, and excellent as the originals. I have no doubt at all that these works are the manifestation of the Glorious Name Nur and that they were written according to the needs and the state of the world. I would like to confirm this with a small example. The deniers go very far. For example: ... and so on. Indeed, in the mentioned works, there are many suitable words that give a lesson with strength to the people of faith and with severity and intensity to the group of rebels, so that they may remain steadfast in their faith and devotion without being deceived by the delusions, various deceptions, and apparently ornate words of these fools. Alas, these lights can be spread only in a very limited area and only among the believers for the time being. 2 Indeed, Allah is with the patient. Patience is the key to relief. Hulusi • • •

Barla Lâhikası ·Mektup 5 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

It is a joke by Sabri. O Esteemed Master! The seventh issue of the Twenty-Eighth Letter, presented with the permission of the learned ones, has timely revealed its form. This blessed work, while being a kind of chronicle of Risâlâtü'n-Nur and Mektubâtü'n-Nur, is also seen as a kind of register and decisive evidence of the pure and luminous works. Moreover, it has now brought to the surface many specialized matters that had been specially and securely stored in my mind for three years. Indeed, it is from these issues and similar ones that one understands the degree of sacredness, sublimity, and luminosity of the Glorious Qur'an, which contains such spiritual gems and treasures. Yes, it must be admitted that even if a treasure of jewels is as rich and possesses as high a value as possible, if the seller or the merchant is not familiar with the principles of trade and commerce, he cannot properly present and display the valuable goods contained in the treasure to the public. Therefore, in this troubled age, the Qur'anic merchant who has been calling the people of Islam for not just six years but perhaps forty years, with the divine command, "O you who believe! Shall I guide you to a commerce that will save you from a painful punishment?" (1) has been and continues to be a source of gratitude and relief for the community of Muhammad, which is in need of spiritual enlightenment. Sabri • • •

Barla Lâhikası ·Mektup 85 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)