My Dear, Loyal, Steadfast Brothers!

With all their stratagems, the dissemblers’ attacks these last ten months and their getting hold of an official has not shaken even the youngest student. Their slanders are insignificant. In the face of the official’s hundred lies that we proved, he found one single error he said was contrary to the facts, in one of our letters, that a newspaper had reported that the former governor had been promoted. But the error was the newspaper’s. Anyway, such slanders from such people have virtually no effect on us, and, Allah willing, they will cause no harm to the Risale‑i Nur circle.

As I told you before, don’t give any importance to the written calumnies of that official, don’t let them confuse your ideas. If there is any legal point the reply to which is not found in my defence, give a brief answer. And say: “Said says: I am not going to attach any importance to that malicious indictment by replying to it lest I vex the three courts which acquitted us, or be in contempt of them. A complete and apt reply is furnished by my long defence, especially the ten points showing the ten ways it is illegal.”