The Eleventh Ray
A Fruit of Denizli Prison
[This is a defence of the Risale‑i Nur against atheism and absolute disbelief. It is our true defence in this imprisonment of ours, for it is only this we are working at.
This treatise is a fruit and souvenir of Denizli Prison, and the product of two Fridays.
Said Nursi
The Fruits of Belief
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate.
And he languished in prison for a number of years more. According to an inner meaning of this verse, Joseph (Upon whom be peace) is the patron of prisoners and prison is a sort of School of Joseph. This being the second time the Risale‑i Nur students have been sent to prison in large numbers, they should study and teach in this school which has been opened to give such training, the brief summaries of a number of matters connected with prison that the Risale‑i Nur proves, and benefit from them thoroughly. We shall explain five or six of those summaries.