My Dear, Loyal, and Unshakeable Brothers!
I congratulate you with all my heart at your quickly healing that wound of ours. I felt completely easy last night as a result. In fact, the Medresetü’z‑Zehra is expanding, and the true sincerity, self-sacrifice and abandoning of egotism, and complete humility of the Risale‑i Nur circle are being adopted and are spreading. Certainly, very petty and temporary sensitivity, irritability, and petulance cannot spoil its powerful teachings and the bonds of brotherhood. The Treatise on Sincerity is the best advice on this point. Their worst strategy now in striking at us and the Risale‑i Nur and agitating us, is to make the Risale‑i Nur students look coldly on each other by playing on differences in their ideas and temperaments, and to separate them from each other. For sure, it was only a minor tiff, but only a hair on the eye causes as much pain as a stone, so my flask gave news of it as though it were a major incident. The late Hafız Ali (May Allah be pleased with him) complaining shortly before his death about a similar very minor situation has come to mind perhaps a hundred times, and saddened me.
Said Nursi