In His Name, be He glorified!
My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
Two or three of my brothers have found a good way of consoling themselves. They say this:
Some of our new brothers in this prison are enduring patiently one or two or perhaps ten years of this calamity because of one or two hours illicit activity. Some of them even offer thanks, saying that they have been saved from other sins. They say: Why should we complain about six or seven months of beneficial hardship, seeing that we are employed in the most licit activity and are serving belief through the Risale‑i Nur? I congratulate them.
Yes, it is a cause of pride and thanks to suffer difficulties for five or ten months due to having performed for five or ten years an enjoyable, pleasant, beneficial, sacred service and elevated worship and reflection with the intention of saving both one’s own belief and that of others.
In a Hadith it says: For one person to come to believe through you is better for you than a plainful of red sheep and goats. You should think therefore of all the people here, in the court, and in Ankara, whose belief has been saved, and will be saved, from ghastly doubts through your writings and your service, and offer thanks in patience and with resignation.
If the Republican People’s Party, which governs in Ankara, obstinately opposes the powerful parts of the Risale‑i Nur which go there, and does not attempt to protect it with the intention of being conciliatory, the most comfortable place for us will be prison. It would indicate that the atheists have combined communism and atheism and that the government is obliged to heed them. If that were the case, the Risale‑i Nur would draw back and halt, and calamities, material and immaterial, would begin their onslaught.