I submit the following to religious, patriotic, and zealous deputies:
Such parts of the Risale‑i Nur as Zülfikar, The Miracles of the Qur'an Collection, which the Hajis saw had been placed next to the Black Stone in Mecca out of respect, and The Staff of Moses Collection, which they say had been placed on the Prophet's (Upon whom be blessings and peace) tomb in Medina, are means of securing the world of Islam's true brother- hood for us. But for four years, moves have been made to destroy them by confiscating them and leaving them to rot in court repositories as though they were pernicious rags. This is despite four courts having ruled for their acquittal and free publication, and on numerous occasions our having applied to the authorities and sent petitions requesting their return, and the Prime Minister having said that uptil now no harm has come to country due to the propagating of religion. And now the religiously minded are alarmed at the law ensuring religious freedom being postponed although it should have had priority and been ratified urgently, and they are worried that in the nation's eyes the religious deputies are failing to perform their most crucial religious duties. We too are alarmed and so that internal covert atheists and traitors who work on account of communism do not take advantage of this situation, out of patriotism I am compelled to explain the following fact to you. The fact is this:
A Reminder to Religious Democrat Deputies
Due to my illness these days, I have been unable to endure the intense cold. On numerous occasions I have experienced that as a result of a general error, the air and earth grow angry and give news of divine wrath through earthquakes and storms, and display conditions opposed to the ordinary. I perceived in this signs of a non‑material storm. I wondered in my heart if a general mistake had again been made, causing harm to Islam and the truths of belief. I asked what there was in the newspapers and what the news was, although it is not my custom and I have given up world politics.
They told me that the law ensuring the freedom of religious people who disseminate religion has been postponed, while the law concerning leftists has been expedited and ratified.
It occurred to my heart that before anything else, for the benefit of this country and Islam it is essential that the law ensuring the freedom of religious people be both expedited, and ratified, and urgently implemented in schools. For together with winning for this country with such a ratification, the moral strength of the nearly forty million Muslims in Russia and the four‑hundred-million world of Islam, as a reserve force, it would halt the moral and spiritual depradations of communism. For while due to its thousand-year enmity Russia should first of all have attacked us, rather than America or Britain, what obviated such an attack was doubtless the truths of the Qur'an and belief. In which case, before anything else, in the face of that extraordinary force, it is absolutely essential to actively grasp the truths of the Qur'an and to construct a Qur'anic barrier before irreligion, like an insuperable barrier of Dhu'l-Qarnayn.
For it is only the truths of belief and the Qur'an which have prevented Russia from attacking us and halted it, although up to the present it has overrun half China and half Europe. Since the judiciary can respond to the Russians' moral destruction only by giving material penalties to one man out of a thousand; moral and spiritual bombs are needed against that force which hands over the prop‑ erty of the rich to vagabonds and the poor and proffers the daughters and wives of the honourable to licentious youths, and in a short time has seized half of Europe, Those bombs are the atom bombs of the truths of the Qur'an and belief; they may halt that dreadful leftist current. Such a universal force cannot be halted with the material penalties, dealt out to one man out of a hundred, by the judiciary.
For this reason, the religious deputies postponing this matter, which should be expedited, has led to the globe of the atmosphere objecting to it with severe cold, as we have previously experienced many times.
Humanity has experienced a powerful awakening as a result of the two ghastly world wars, due to which, most certainly, no nation can now exist without religion. Russia cannot remain without religion, nor will it return to Christianity. At the very most, it will be reconciled with the Qur'an, which smashes absolute disbelief, is based on truth and reality, and is founded on proof and evidence and persuades the intellect and heart; or it may follow it. Then, it will not draw the sword against the four hundred million adherents of the Qur'an.
Saîd Nursî