A Letter from Husrev Efendi in connection with The Eleventh Issue

A section of the letter from Husrev, the hero of The Book of Light,

in connection with The Eleventh Issue of The Fruit [Epistle]

بِاسْمِهِ سُبْحَانَهُ (a) وَإِن مِّن شَيْءٍ إِلاَّ يُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدِهِ (b)

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته أبدًا دائمًا (c)

O our very blessed, very precious and very beloved teacher and master,

The Fruit - in its nine ‘issues’ - comprising as it does sublime beauties and benefits for the nation and the country, has not sufficed itself with merely being a means, in a most astonishing form, of the salvation of its students in a terrifying time and amongst terrible rebelling sinners and bitter enemies, [but it has also] celebrated and applauded its students, particularly with its tenth and eleventh issue, and especially for the Students of Light who journey upon the roads of the truth.

It has transformed the terrors of the grave, that real place to which the Students of Light will all go, and it has made dialogue and companionship with angels beloved to them, who they will see and converse with under the earth, a place

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a In His Name, may He be glorified!

b There is nothing but that it glorifies with His praise. (Qur’ān: al-Isrā', 44)

c Peace be upon you, and the mercy and blessings of Allāh, always and forever. 

that provokes fear in all people, a tremendously alarming and frightening place, a singularly painful and calamitous place especially for the heedless. Yet, it has made them feel more of an intimate [connection] with that place than ever before, and it has thereby wiped away our extreme fears concerning that alarming place, the first of the stopping places of the Hereafter; it has helped us breathe a sigh of relief.

It has particularly become like an electric lamp, the rays of which extend the distance of hundreds of thousands of years, [carried] in the hands of even those who like myself are unable to see the life of that luminous world [without it]; it has further become an exemplary garden of flowers the fragrance of which can ever be smelt.

Yes, we submit to our beloved master’s appraisal that we continually present the spiritual emanations of The [Book of] Light that we have received to his presence, like a student who reads his lesson to his teacher every day, though it be that our beloved master has temporarily ceased their speaking.

O esteemed master of ours!

The reality of The Book of Light, and the beauty of the Fruit, and the spiritual emanation of its flower have made me speak a few words in gratitude on behalf of my city. And it has refreshed many hearts speaking like me. Now the steps advancing towards The Book of Light, and the hands stretched out towards it in our area, have acquired through the eleventh flower of The Fruit, more toughness than ever before; The Book of Light has spread, and its activities have commenced.

Your extremely deficient student,

Husrev