My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

The Risale‑i Nur meets with you in my place and gives excellent instruction to the new brothers who are eager for it. We have seen from experience that to be occupied with the Risale‑i Nur by either studying it, or reading it out loud, or writing it out, affords an expansiveness to the heart, an ease to the spirit, health to the body, and makes sustenance plentiful.

Now a hero of the Risale‑i Nur like Husrev has been bestowed on you. Allah willing, this School of Joseph will be another blessed place of study, part of the Medresetü’z‑Zehra. Up to now, I had not shown Husrev to the worldly, and I was hiding him. But the published collections have shown him up completely to the politicians, and nothing secret has remained. I have therefore described two or three of his tasks to my select (hâs) brothers.

But now before us are two awesomely obdurate people in amongst those who will listen to the truth. One of them emerged in Emirdağ, on account of both atheism and communism, and the other here. They are trying with extreme cunning to alarm the officials and turn them against us with slander. At present we have therefore to act with the greatest caution and not be scared, and to bide our time relying on Allah the Most High till His grace comes to our assistance.