In His Name, be He glorified!
And there is nothing but it glorifies Him with praise (Q 17:44).
Peace be upon you and God's mercy and blessings!
My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
You may send a petition to the justice-loving Democrats saying that I am ill and that they should do whatever they think is best. Our lawyer told us in the letter we received from him the day before yesterday that they are trying to differentiate between the books that contain indictable material and those that do not. They are making a pretext of one word out of thousands in one treatise and showing it to be an offence. Their malicious intention is to prevent the spread of the Risale-i Nur by not returning that treatise in a way that conforms with no law - just as they have always done upto the present. Also, although what they show to be an indictable offence in their decision, which has anyway been quashed by the Court of Appeal, is not against us, and although we have proved decisively the malice and with a table of true and false - the eighty errors in the public prosecutor's indictment, with the same antipathy they have made allegations against the four-hundred-page Zülfikar Collection due to a few lines about Islamic
dress and inheritance that were written thirty to forty years ago and only mention what is written in one hundred thousand Qur'anic commentaries. What law in the world would permit them to seize that weighty collection and not return it to us? Also, with the exception of two short pieces about repetition in the Qur'an and the angels, both Denizli Court and Ankara Criminal Court gave the decision to acquit and return to us all the works held for two years by Afyon Court since they could find nothing reprehensible in them. Then although the Isparta authorities at one time confiscated all the works, they returned all of them to their owners, Then they seized The Staff of Moses and Zülfikar on the pretext that they were being published in the old script without permission and held them for four years, but then because they could find nothing indictable in them returned all the one hundred and seventy volumes to us without any loss. And although the religious publications and official newspapers now express the same objections a hundred times more violently that we did in the name of right, towards some of the leaders of the former party, they showed this to be our most serious crime. ... ... ...
Thus, while the truth of the matter is this, Afyon Court stated at the end of its decision, which was also printed in the old letters, not in the name of justice but out of bigoted love of that person who is dead and gone, in order to convict us and due mostly to the prosecutor's malice, that "Said and his friends call Mustafa Kemal anti-religious and an anti-christ and they try to destroy the people's love for him, that's why we're convicting them!" Surely, even if such objections towards a dead person were a thousand times greater, it would only constitute a personal case. There is something strange in this and there must be some other matter in it so that a court of justice has made such a ruling. Now that all the parts of the Risale-i Nur which those people hold have been acquitted four times and the present Minister of Justice has decided, on the quashing of the Afyon Court decision which convicted us, that the Risale-i Nur contains nothing constituting an offence and that it has been acquitted three times, now in this era of the Democrat government, from which the whole nation awaits justice, compassion, and religion, if, due to the cunning schemes of the former tyrants, the Risale-i Nur is left to the abitrary devices of the ill-intentioned, it will be serious treachery against the Democrat government and will dash the nation's hopes of consolation. My deputy in Ankara, Mustafa Sungur, gave the good news in the telegraph he sent on 17.11.1950 that the decision had been taken to return all the parts of the Risale-i Nur to us, and that the just Justice Minister had endorsed the three acquittals. According to Sungur's subsequent letter, orders had been given
for their return. Despite this, and despite his saying that he would verify this by telephone, Afyon Court is meaninglessly collecting all the files of both Eskişehir and Denizli Courts, and with the announcement of the amnesty and the courts' acquittals, it is mixing up those blessed works with those files and sixteen years of slanders and denunciations in order to refute them and throw them into their depository, The affairs of the Risale-i Nur should not be left to those persons who have deceived us for the past three years. We wish to draw this most important matter to the attention of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice.
An extraordinary incident which is one of man examples opposed to justice and religion: We many times requested the return of our Qur'an, which they had confiscated three years ago and which shows the visible miracle of the 2,800 instances of the name of Allah written in gold, but they failed to do so and they did not give it to us. Now the lawyer says that we should send a petition to the Head of the Directorate of Religious Affairs requesting its return. There are hundreds of such examples showing that plots are hatched against us due solely to malice and foreign intrigue. The Democrats, who so please us and the Islamic world, should be prudent, and they should save the Risale-i Nur and us from these torments.
In the name of the Nur students, Said Nursi
In His Name, be He glorified!
And there is nothing but it glorifies with praise. (Q 17:44)
My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
Ceylân, my Abdurrahman and young Husrev, has performed his duties in two or three places perfectly, and has returned. Now I am sending him to Ankara as my deputy like Sungur, to carry out a more important task.
Secondly: I have sent you the letters from certain persons, for your information.
Thirdly: Let me know how much I owe you for the copies of The Words Collection, and of the biography in the new letters and Jaushan in the old letters, which are from İnebolu and are going to be sent to me.
My Dear, Loyal Brother, Osman Nuri!
Since, owing to your sacred intention and sincerity, Almighty God has gathered the leading young Saids around you in Ankara, and since you consider it necessary for me to be in Ankara, I am now sending in my place to that small Nur School the copies of the Risale-i Nur I have collected, having paid for them out of my own income. They will be neighbours to you to the number of Saids. And by reason of their loyal services upto now, which far surpass those of devoted sons, such hardworking young Saids as Sungur, Ceylân, Sâlih, Abdullah, Ahmed, and Ziya, each of whom is the equivalent of ten to fifteen Abdurrahmans, are my deputies with you and your students, and I leave it to you to supervise that small Nur School in my place, as a place of learning.
My Dear, Loyal, and Blessed Brothers!
Firstly: The possibility occurred to me that with the telegraph signed by Husrev and given to the President, the young Husrevs in Ankara might have the Qur'an written by Husrev printed photographically. You try to learn from the Isparta post office what sort of telegraph it was, and let me know. I am curious.
Secondly: The slight criticisms of us made by a number of Sufis and described in our brother Rıfat's letter, who is in Konya, hold no importance. You should not be upset and should not respond in any way. I look on the criticisms of the believers, and especially of the followers of the Sufi way, and particularly of my person, as advice of a sort and a favour, I forgive them. In the face of the awesome harms caused us by the mis- guided, I consider the insignificant criticisms of my person by believers to be warnings of a sort, urging us in a friendly manner to be cautious.
Thirdly: Incited by covert dissemblers, the weekly papers in Afyon recently presented us as being connected with something we have nothing to do with. The Nurjus here denied it. It is nothing to worry about. We congratulate with our whole life and spirit, the wondrous, effective services with the Risale-i Nur of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ's leading students which
offer many benefits for the Islamic world. I send many greetings to all my brothers and sisters and pray for them, and request their prayers.
My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
Firstly: Ali and Haji Süleyman from the auspicious village (Kuleönü), and Abdurrahman and Himmet from the vicinity of Dinar, and a leading Nurju from my home region, all came to visit me. I offer thanks to Almighty God that their fervent attachment to the Risale-i Nur in Kuleönü persists as ever, It was a wonder of their loyalty and sincerity that at the very time I had been obliged to send ten of my own collections to Ankara and from other distant places further books had been requested of me, those auspicious brothers brought me as a gift from the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ exactly the amount of the books I had sent. I found among them the entire Letters (Mektûbat) and Additional Letters (Lahika), written out in his own handwriting by Büyük Mustafa (the Elder), who is the leading Abdurrahman. May Almighty God bestow on all of them instances of mercy to the number of those books' letters. Amen!
Secondly: The day before yesterday, Mustafa, one of the young heroes of the Risale-i Nur, came to visit me. He assisted Husrev for eleven months in prison, working quite selflessly for his comfort. He told me that he intended to go and visit him. I replied that it was both Husrev's right and his own right that he should visit him, but that four students who had come here, had gone to Isparta, so there was no longer any need. I told him that since he acted on account of the Risale-i Nur as imam in a large village, that was more useful for the Risale-i Nur than either my personal service, or visiting Husrev at present. If such services for the Risale-i Nur had not been performed in his village, there would have been need for someone as sincere and devoted as himself. So his visit was postponed for now.
Thirdly: Haji Sabri of Konya came to visit me. We were holding a conversation and Sâdık, Hayrî, and Mustafa were presen; it was an important lesson for him. The work for the cause of belief performed for this country and nation and the Islamic world by the leading students of the Medresetü' z-Zehrâ and particularly by Husrev, and their forming a barrier against
the stratagems of the destructive atheists, are acts so tremendously good they would cause even - to suppose the impossible - a thousand evils to be forgiven. In which case, nothing those leading students, and foremost Husrev, does should be criticized, and everyone should co-operate with them as true brothers with genuine, heartfelt sincerity. The lesson had this meaning. God willing, Haji Sabri and Hoja Sabri and Rüştü and those like them will be as firmly attached to Husrev as brothers, and differences in temperament will no longer affect them.
My Dear, Loyal Brothers, and Leading Students of the Medresetü'z- Zehrâ, and Publishers of the Risale-i Nur!
Firstly: I considered the following matter to be appropriate: it occurred to me that as the leading members of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ are the main people who have a say concerning the Risale-i Nur, I should refer it to them for their approval, It is like this:
Recently, because three of our friends who serve me wanted to receive instruction from me temporarily for a few days, and because I felt a desire to revive a valuable lesson I had taught my students formerly, I was teaching from one page of the printed Lemeât (Gleams) every day. Both I and they met it with astonishment and appreciation. I had the idea that the reason no copies of the treatise remained, as with the other old printed treatises, was that enemies who understood their value prevented their publication, while friends did not want to part with their copies owing to their worth. And we saw that Lemeât comprised in the form of fine aphorisms a number of essential seeds of the Risale-i Nur, and in brief maxims encapsulated an extensive social truth in a style so clear and plain that no literary figure or thinker had previously achieved it. It was written in semi-verse and read as easily as prose, and thirty-seven years ago had been composed in twenty days in Ramadan by working for only one or two hours a day. It was as long as a book and was written as a sort of Mathnawi. We marked in the copy we obtained the points where in twenty places, it had made predictions which thirty to forty years later turned out to be true. It gave us the idea that the work was foretelling the Risale-i Nur, and was a sort of index of it and seedbed.
Secondly: I am leaving to the discretion of the Nur hero, Husrev, and
the other leading students of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ whether or not to include Lemeât at the end of The Words as the Thirty-Third Word. I send my greetings to all my brothers and sisters, and pray for them, and request their prayers.
My Dear, Loyal, Faithful, Sincere, and Genuine Brothers and Sisters!
We congratulate you with our whole life and spirit on the festival, and on the festival of those who this year were free to make the Hajj, and on this nation beginning to enjoy - with the despotism in this country being lifted - the freedom prescribed by the Shari'a. We congratulate you too on the nation's spiritual festival and on the festival enjoyed by the Islamic world with its shared awakening, and on the Risale-i Nur answering with the truth of the Qur'an the need humanity feels for the Qur'an's lights.
My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
Firstly: I have sent to Seyyid Sâlih ten of my own collections from the Risale-i Nur which he had asked you for, for the Muslim Brothers, who are very prominent in Aleppo and the region. He should give them to them.
Secondly: I am closely concerned with Denizli and with our Nur brothers there. Just when I was wondering how the late Hasan Feyzi's friends were, and how and where our old brother Yâkub Cemal was, I was greatly pleased to receive Yâkub Cemal's festival congratulations, sent in the name of the Denizli Nurjus. It took me longing and yearning on a trip around Denizli, and I exclaimed: Mâsha'llah! Bârekâllah!
Thirdly: Some of the wretches who tormented the Nurjus for twenty years and thrust them into prison, are now suffering everyday the distress that they inflicted on us in a month. We endured it in patience, referring those tyrants to Hell. However, the sacredness of the service of belief
demanded from divine justice a sort of hell for those wretches in this world, for we have seen that for some of them it reduces to nothing the pleasure they received in a year from their absolute despotism; time has shown this, This means that divine justice and providence suffice us.
Fourthly: I send my condolences to both the relatives of Ali Osman on his death, and to the Medresetü' z-Zehrâ and the Nur circle. And I congratulate him, for he carried out his duty to the letter and now is included in my prayers together with the Nur heroes Hâfız Ali and Hâfız Mustafa, I send many greetings to all my brothers.