My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
Firstly: May God bless and bestow endless happiness on our brother Hâfız Mustafa, a leading Nur champion, who took the main Risale‑i Nur collections to Mecca and gave them to the eminent Indian scholar Ahmad 'Ali Shimshiri, who assured him that they would be translated into Urdu (lit. Hintçe) and be sent to India. The Medresetü'z-Zehrâ should write a letter to that lofty scholar. His address is: Ahmad 'Ali Shimshiri, Bab al-Salam, Mecca.
Secondly: We learnt that the incident this time was due to their unfounded suspicions and making mountains out of molehills. A sign of it was this:
on orders from the Minister of the Interior, the governor of Afyon and chief of police came here at night, intending to raid my house, but because the public prosecutor did not agree, they had to wait till morning. They then appointed two men who were most hostile to us and who without ado smashed the lock and entered. The same day when I went out in the phaeton, in a way that was quite unprecedented, five aeroplanes flew over us very low because they knew it was my phaeton, and twice returned. Then the next day, we went in a different direction, and while passing along a fairly concealed valley in the phaeton, we saw five planes flying very low as though they were searching for something. We understood that they were looking for us, Just like the previous day, those five planes flew over us and over the town, and when I returned to my room, they disappeared. This was a powerful sign that they had made a hundred mountains out of one molehill. You may convey my thanks and gratitude to the authorities and judiciary in Isparta, for here, I am subjected to this meaningless harassment due to groundless suspicions. The heroes of the Medresetü'z‑Zehrâ there have been subjected in three years to only a tenth of it, so I forgive the Isparta authorities their persecution.
Thirdly: Concerning the present calamity, I considered as usual the justice of divine determining and outpouring of divine providence, and I saw that compared with other provinces, Kütahya had lagged behind in regard to the Risale‑i Nur despite being close to its circle, so to awaken its interest and that of its judiciary and administration in the Risale-i Nur like those of Denizli and Kastamonu … Yes, however much his ideas and duties are against us, he was sent to that province so that he might profit from the Risale-i Nur in respect of belief and win reward for the Nurjus. Divine determining also dealt me a compassionate slap because I told myself: the Interior Minister comes from Erzurum and my home region and the governor of Afyon (from Antalya) and uptil now they have not bothered me; I'm free now and I've found a fair-minded governor; I'm not going to leave Emirdağ; but in punishment for the sort of joy I felt and my lack of caution, divine determining dealt me a blow at the hands of those two men, and acted justly.
The governor of Afyon, the chief of police, and the committee here wrote to Ankara concerning our case: “There's no question of founding a Sufi order or political society, but there are two hundred thousand Nurju brothers who are ready to sacrifice themselves for anything Said Nursi says.” They caused serious consternation to the government in another way. But there may possibly be an advantage for the Risale‑i Nur and the Nurjus in that memo of theirs, as well as some harm for my person.
One aspect of the advantage is this: the conditions are indeed harsh, but there is a truth as unassailable as steel for which two hundred thousand Turks are eager customers, and to which they are ready to devote themselves and their spirits. It strengthens the belief of anyone whose belief is weak on this point. The politicians and those who have lost their belief are frightened to provoke it and will no longer swiftly attack it.
As for the harm towards my person, Almighty God is the Preserver. They may try to damage my prestige with slanders that would not occur to Satan even, in order to denigrate me, induce my brothers to flee from me, and rupture our brotherhood.
Yûsuf Ziya, who was a member of the experts' committee and is a consultant at the Directorate of Religious Affairs, and the other hojas, have asked for a complete set of the Risale‑i Nur from us. As a respectful request, they sent with Hasan Çalışkan, whom we had sent there, such pieces as the Thirtieth Word (Second Station), about the transformation of minute particles, the discussion about particles at the beginning of the First Stopping-Place of the Thirty-Second Word, the piece about the air (Hüve Nüktesi) and the parts about particles in the Treatise on Nature. It is as though they want to understand the meaning of the verse, And there is nothing but it glorifies Him with praise , and it may be understand through those pieces. Those pieces also silence the materialists, who have now started to corrupt ideas freely.
Saîd Nursî