This is Somewhat Confidential

Evidence that their plans and conspiracy against me last winter, which were thwarted as a result of the patience and endurance I showed through divine providence and your prayers, were very extensive was the President announcing recently in Afyon that he surmised that a disturbance connected with religion would break out in the province.

That is to say, a secret society wanted to provoke an incident by harassing me. But their completely illegal and arbitrary ill‑treatment and treacherous persecution, which rile me excessively and intended to provoke foreign intervention to the harm of Muslims and this country, gain for them only harm in this world and Hell in the next, and for us reward and victory in this world, and Paradise in the next, God willing. Evidently, the Cabinet and President perceived this secret plan, because all the officials around here, and even the governor, kaymakam, and police avoid me and are scared. I was amazed at this. But anyone with a grain of sense has understood that we have nothing but light and the Risale-i Nur, and that we do not wield the club of politics.

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It is strange, but the officials who should have worked most in our favour, were employed and used against us. The Nurjus have to be extremely circumspect, careful, and calm‑headed, for there are storms in the air and cunning dissemblers insinuate themselves everywhere. They infiltrate the liberty-seeking parties although they are anti-religious and support absolute despotism, so that they might corrupt them and learn their secrets and divulge them.

Also, in connection with Salâhaddin giving The Staff of Moses to the American we say this:

It is essential that missionaries and pious Christians, as well as Nurjus, are extremely careful, for certainly, with the idea of defending itself against the attacks of the religions of Islam and Christianity, the current from the north will try to destroy the accord of Islam and the missionaries. Making concessions to the lower classes, and inviting the middle classes to assist the common people through the obligatory payment of the purification tax and the prohibition of interest and usury, and preventing them from tyrannizing them, they may deceive the Muslims, and giving them privileges may draw them over to their side.

However, this time I have broken my rule for your sake, and considered worldly affairs.

Saîd Nursî