In His Name, be He glorified!

My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

I wanted only two or three of our brothers to be released today. But the divine favour that looks to us left them behind here for their own good. It is absolutely essential that our present situation is maintained for around three weeks. For our being together for this Festival is necessary both for us, and the Risale‑i Nur, and for our work, and for our physical and spiritual comfort, and so that we can receive a full share of the Hajjis’ prayers, and to save the treatises that have been sent to Ankara from being confiscated, and so that those who pity us in our plight and embrace the Risale‑i Nur may increase in number, and it can be a proof that we did not have recourse to the traitors to the country, nation, and religion by consenting to the serious errors of the present.

Said Nursi