My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
Firstly: Besides congratulating you on the Ten Nights, we want to tell you about two wonders of the Risale‑i Nur. The many-sided expansion of the Nur service, especially with the duplicating machines, has confused the covert hostile atheists. Using a wretched unthinking man and following an unimportant but grievous plan, they provoked an incident that might have given rise to numerous suspicions and calumnies: four shots were fired right beside the house of one of the leading Nur students here who performs the most vital tasks, wounding some wretched man. The doctor said it was one hundred per cent certain that he would die. Although there were many people, official and unofficial, to support the wounded man's case and a ninety-per-cent possibility that the crime would be attributed to that leading Nur student and in connection with this, his house would be searched and all the treatises and letters of the Risale-i Nur would be seized, and I myself and the Nurjus would be incriminated, and the innocent student would be defamed with unwarranted slanders — despite all this, in accordance with the meaning of, You are protected by divine providence, divine providence again came to our assistance. The man did not die, although he had been hit right in the face at close range by four bullets. Also, there were no witnesses. And no evidence at all was found. The man told neither the court, nor his father, nor his brothers who had shot him, although they insisted. That is, he was not permitted to say. If he had said, dissemblers who make mountains out of molehills would have cooked up outrageous slanders.
Through His grace and munificence, Almighty God protected the Risale‑i Nur and the Nurjus, and the explosion of the incident caused us no harm. I felt absolutely certain that it was a wonder of the Risale-i Nur.
Furthermore, on the one hand the man had read a part of the Risale‑i Nur and his life was spared as a wonder of it; and on the other, due to the sense he had obtained through the small lessons in reality he had received from it, he was silenced so that no harm should come to the Risale-i Nur, and he was prevented from telling it to either the court or his relations. One time he came and visited me and gave his word that he was going to behave properly, but he did something wrong and received a blow. Indeed, we understood that even Nur students who may be subject to false accusations although they act with perfect sincerity and loyalty, may suffer compassionate slaps due to negligent persons.