My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
Firstly: I congratulate you with my whole life and spirit on the past Birthday of the Prophet (UWBP).
Secondly: The world of Islam will congratulate and applaud your success in publishing the Risale‑i Nur. The signs are now appearing. For instance, Pakistan's deputy education minister came to visit me and took some parts of the Risale-i Nur. He said that he would try to disseminate them among the ninety million Muslims there. He took them and went.
Moreover, despite so many dissemblers working against us, the Risale‑i Nur has been taken to far-off places in both Europe and Asia.
Also, when the Germans in Berlin got hold of Zülfikar, they announced their praises of it in the newspapers,
Also, the believers at home are reading The Staff of Moses and Zülfikar enthusiastically, attaching no importance to the prohibitions placed on them by the former Prime Minister and Interior Minister, who were the most opposed to them. Most of the readers are in Ankara.
Also, prison directors in several places in two or three provinces have decided to make their prisons into Nur Schools so that their prisoners may reform through the Risale‑i Nur, as they did in the prisons of Denizli and Afyon.
Thirdly: The late Burhan was an unlettered, secret hero of the Risale‑i Nur. I offer my condolences to both his relatives, and Isparta, and the students of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ. I received the news five or six days ago and during those five or six days, I have prayed for him perhaps a thousand times. For while reciting my invocations during those six days, I have intended him the nearly four hundred times I have pronounced Save us from Hellfire I make over to Burhan all that I have read and recited.
Fourthly: The Risale‑i Nur has begun to fill the secular schools with light. Their pupils are attaching themselves to it to a greater extent than the medrese (religious school) scholars, becoming students of it and spreading it. God willing, the inmates of the religious schools will slowly recognize the Risale-i Nur's worth, for in reality it belongs to them and is the product of their schools. Even now, many muftis and religious scholars appear to be enthusastic about it and are requesting it.
The most important frequenters of the Sufi convents (tekye) are the followers of the Sufi way (ehl‑i tarikat). It is absolutely essential that they illuminate the Risale-i Nur with all their strength and that they look on it as their own. Up to now I have thought only of the reality of belief and have said that the present is not the time of the Sufi tarikat; innovations do not permit it. But now it is necessary and essential that all the followers of the tarikats who are within the bounds of the Prophet's (UWBP) Sunna should regard the circle of the Risale-i Nur, which is the summary of all the twelve major tarikats and is their largest circle, as their own tarikat circle, and enter it. The present time has shown this.
Also, even the most sinful followers of the tarikats cannot embrace unbelief easily; their hearts are not defeated by it. Therefore they are not completely shaken and may become true Nurjus. However, as far as is possible, they should not embrace innovations or commit any serious sins that destroy the fear of God.
Fifthly: There is one sole solution in the face of atheism, irreligion, and anarchy, the gravest dangers at the present time, and that is to embrace the truths of the Qur'an. For the human calamity that in a short time transformed vast China into a communist state, cannot be silenced with political, physical forces. The only thing that can silence it are the truths of the Qur'an,
The effects of the matter explained in the Night of Power in A Guide for Youth are now to be seen in both America and Europe. For this reason, the true strength of our present government is to be found in relying on the truths of the Qur'an and serving them. By doing this, through Islamic brotherhood, it will gain a reserve force of three hundred and fifty million brethren within the bounds of Islamic unity. Formerly, the Christian states did not support Islamic unity,
but now, because communism and anarchy have arisen, both America and the European states are compelled to support it and the Qur'an.
Sixthly: A deputy who is a Nur student came to visit me.
He told me that he had visited the Ministry of Justice and told them about the decision to confiscate the Risale‑i Nur. Özyörük, the Justice Minister, said that he had given orders to Afyon Court to return it in its entirety, and that he was going to return the copy of The Staff of Moses he had to its author. Halil Özyörük's saying this shows his support for the Democrats and for the Risale-i Nur.
I send many greetings to everyone.
The Enduring One, He is the Enduring One!Your brother,Saîd Nursî