In His Name, be He glorified!
My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
Firstly: This report has had exactly the same result as the one in Denizli. They have exonerated us on the points on which we have been charged, but in order to ingratiate themselves with them and show that they are not Nurjus, and due to a vein of Wahhabism, they have attacked us with a few scholarly criticisms. I reckon this report arrived before the indictment was written, for the indictment includes some points from it. In which case our list of errors and corrections answers them completely. What do you think of this? Also, what are my new replies like? Are they apt? I wrote them very hastily when in a wretched state.
Secondly: Up to now they were apparently preoccupied with our persons, and the questions of a political society, a Sufi order, and a few unimportant private letters. But now, with seizing The Illuminating Lamp (Siracü’n‑Nûr) and The Six Attacks (Hücumat‑ı Sitte), and the experts’ committee directing attention to the Risale‑i Nur, and the machinations of our covert enemies, the Risale‑i Nur has been attacked in a sort of way, which is a means of ensuring tranquillity in this country. So as with many times previously, at exactly the same time as the country was being attacked in this way, two severe earthquakes occurred, just as I was writing that discussion. This affirmed me, saying: “There is no need to write it.”
So I did not write any more. Then today I heard that there is fear of war. So I said to the person in charge here: “Whenever the Risale‑i Nur is attacked, the earth either becomes angry, or there is fear of war. We have experienced numerous such events so that no possibility of chance remained, and these have been pointed out to the courts.”
That is to say, my terrible anxiety about the Risale‑i Nur recently, and the jealous criticisms of the experts’ committee, and the confiscation of an important part of the Risale‑i Nur, although I did not realize it coincided with The Illuminating Lamp – which is like acceptable almsgiving and a means of repelling disaster – disappearing behind the veil of concealment, the earthquake, and fear of the outbreak of war.
Said Nursi