In His Name, be He glorified!
Firstly: It is an instance of divine favour that I did not hear that man’s slanderous indictment, otherwise I would have spoken vehemently. I would have told the chairman of the court: I am taking you to court, that is, you and your injustice to the supreme tribunal at the Last Judgement, and I am taking your contempt of the law to the court of this world. And the reason I said I have no lawyer was to tell them that he is the lawyer of all of us in general matters, and only I can reply to the attacks on my person. You may tell Ahmed Hikmet this.
Secondly: Our former defences are sufficient to answer the prosecutor’s charges.
Thirdly: Mustafa Osman and Ceylan wrote and told me what they thought of it and that it had caused them no discomfort, and that it would have no adverse effects in the Risale‑i Nur circle either. I saw the hero Tahiri. He had the same idea. I was curious as to what Husrev, the Feyzis, and Sabri thought.
Fourthly: I reckon it is because disbelief and misguidance now attack us in the form of secret societies and political groups that divine determining makes them torment us with this extreme tyranny and the accusation of being a political society. It means there is an overriding need for the believers to be united. We were unaware of that fact, so received the blow of justice from divine determining.
Said Nursi