My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
The Fruits of Belief is most important and very valuable. It is my hope that in time it will achieve great triumphs. It seems you have thoroughly understood its value, for you have not left this place of study without lessons. On my own account I say that if the fruit of all this trouble and expense is only this treatise and The Defence Speeches (Müdâfaat Risalesi), and being together with you in the same place, it reduces to nothing the expense and the trouble, and if I were to suffer this calamity ten times over, it would still be cheap.
Due to many experiences and especially in this distressing, restricted prison, I have formed the firm conviction that being occupied with the Risale‑i Nur, both reading it and writing it out, greatly lessens the distress and gives one a feeling of expansiveness. When I am not busy with it, the calamity doubles and I am upset by trifling things. Although I reckoned that for various reasons Husrev, Hafız Ali and Tahiri would be suffering most, I saw that it was they and those who were with them who had the greatest composure and submission and ease of heart. I asked myself why.
Now I have understood that they are carrying out their true duties; since they are not occupied with anything frivolous, and do not interfere in the functions of divine decree and determining, and are not boastful, critical, or panicky, all of which spring from egotism, with their self‑possession and their steadfastness and peace of mind, they have exonerated the Risale‑i Nur students and demonstrated their moral strength in the face of atheism. May Allah the Most High make the true dignity and heroism within their utter humility and self‑abasement spread to all our brothers. Amen!