In His Name, be He glorified!
My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
Firstly: In accordance with the meaning of Good lies in what Allah the Most High wishes, there are many instances of good in our trial being delayed and those of our brothers who have been released being here on the day it recommences.
Yes, since the Risale‑i Nur question is of importance for the Islamic world in general and this country in particular, there should be lively gatherings such as that in order to attract everyone’s attention to its truths. For in its glittering fashion, beyond all our hopes and precautions and our concealing it, and our enemies belittling it, and outside our wills, the Risale‑i Nur teaches its truths openly to friend and foe alike. It unhesitatingly divulges its most private secrets to the most distant stranger.
Since the truth is this, we should consider our trifling difficulties to be a bitter medicine like quinine, and offering thanks in patience, say: “This too will pass, Allah willing.”
Secondly: I wrote this to the supervisor of this School of Joseph: just as when I was a prisoner‑of-war in Russia, the Bolshevik storm first erupted in the prisons, so the French Revolution first began in the prisons and with the prisoners known in the histories as “vagabonds.” Because of this, in both Eskişehir and Denizli we Risale‑i Nur students tried to reform the other prisoners as far as we possibly could. In both prisons it was extremely successful. Here it will be even more useful, for as a result of the Risale‑i Nur’s instuction at this sensitive time, the squall52 that blew up was only a hundredth of what it would have been. Otherwise the harmful outside currents which take advantage of conflict and such incidents and await such opportunities, would have ignited the gunpowder and caused a conflagration.
Said Nursi