My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
I received a powerful reminder to restate a matter of the greatest importance, which I had previously explained to you briefly. It is as follows:
There have been signs around here that because the covert assaults of hostile dissemblers and their exploiting the judiciary, politics, and government for open irreligion came to nothing, they have abandoned their former intrigues against the triumphs of the Risale‑i Nur and are hatching an even more devious and underhand plot which would leave even Satan in astonishment.
The chief part of their plan is to deter our select, devoted brothers and make them slack, and if possible, give up the Risale‑i Nur altogether. They employ such extraordinary lies and intrigues that as with the heroic students of the Rose and Light Factories in Isparta and that region, steadfastness, loyalty, and resolve are imperative in order to withstand them. Some of them appear in the guise of friends, and if it is possible to intimidate people, make molehills into mountains and arouse groundless fears in them. They try to make the weak ones give up, saying: “Watch out! Don't approach Said! The government's watching him.” They even set young girls on some of the young students in order to enflame their passions. They also point out some of my personal faults to the leading Risale-i Nur students (erkân), and referring to some apparently religious well-known innovators, they say: “We're Muslims too; religion isn't restricted to Said's way.” They exploit those simpleminded hojas and men of religion on account of the atheists and anarchists who have covertly formed a front against us. God willing, these plots of theirs will remain fruitless too. You should say the following to such wretches:
“We are students of the Risale‑i Nur, and Said is a student like us. The Risale-i Nur has the Qur'an as its source, mine, and basis. Despite twenty years of unprecedented investigations and inquiries, it has proved its value and superiority to its most obdurate enemies even. Whatever Said does, who is its interpreter and servant, even if — I seek refuge with God — he were to turn against it, our loyalty and attachment to it would not be shaken, God willing o” Saying this, you should shut that door. But you should busy yourselves with the Risale-i Nur as far as is possible, and write it out if you have the opportunity, and attach no importance to exaggerated propaganda, and be cautious and circumspect as before.
I send greetings to every one of our brothers and offer prayers.
Saîd Nursî