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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

When we reached Barla, he ignored fatigue and illness. We never saw
the Master unoccupied. 61

We never saw the Master unoccupied during all of the long years that
we were with him. He would either read or make corrections, or have
others read and listen. 62

My brother, I congratulate you. Thanks to the Master we have become
writers. Out of fear we had been unable to write works or to instruct
anyone … But his purity, affection, compassion, humility, courage, and
heroism overcame all things. 63

Said Nursi Spread the Message under the
Most Difficult Conditions

In spite of all these obstacles, Said Nursi never stopped spreading
the teachings of the Qur'an through the Risales. To do this, he used the
scant resources that he had at hand. No matter whether he was in exile,
prison, or in a prison camp, and no matter where he went, he taught
and wrote about Islam. New students continued to join him as the
Risales reached more and more people.
While on the Caucasian front leading volunteer troops, he wrote
his Arabic-language work Al-Isarat al I`jaz (The Signs of
Miraculousness). During the three years he spent in the prison camp
after the war, he was a source of spiritual knowledge for captured offi-
cers who spent their lives going from one front to another, and
strengthened their belief and sincerity of heart. Later, the Russians al-

lowed him to stay in a mosque in the Tatar section of Kosturma (a
mosque in Siberia). For two years and a half, he served as the mosque's
imam and continued his discussions about belief. The bookTarihce-i

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