My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
In regard to this divinely ordained event from the point of view of the justice of divine determining: because some of the new students sought worldly things by means of the Risale‑i Nur, which were not in keeping with the true meaning of sincerity, they found themselves confronted by self‑seeking rivals, and obtaining from somewhere a long way off from me the Fifth Ray, the original of which was written twenty-five years ago and in the past eight years copies of which have only twice come into my possession and were then mislaid, a number of jealous people like that corrupt hodja aroused the judiciary’s suspicions with it. At the same time, The Supreme Sign (Âyetü’l‑Kübra) was printed without my agreement instead of The Key to Belief (Miftahü’l‑İman Mecmuası), which I wanted printed in the new letters; on the arrival of copies of it, it was reported to the government, and the two matters were confused. Suggesting the Fifth Ray had been printed in opposition to the Civil Code, some malicious people made a mountain out of a molehill and had us put away in this place of penitence.
Nevertheless, divine determining drove us here for our own good; it called us again to the School of Joseph, where, being far more meritorious than the places of ordeal of former times, we could receive a thorough lesson in sincerity and rectify our attachment to the affairs of this world, which in truth are valueless.
We say in the face of the unfounded suspicions of the worldly:
from beginning to end the Seventh Ray (The Supreme Sign) is about belief; you have been deceived; it is completely different to the Fifth Ray, which has been held strictly private and was not found in my possession in any of the scrupulous searches, and was originally written twenty years ago. We did not agree to show it to anyone at the present time, let alone have it printed; it nevertheless is a verified prediction, and does not contest anything.