I ask you! Since there is not and cannot be, why do you strive against us? In the face of your greatest penalty we receive our discharge papers to go to the world of light, so we await it in complete steadfastness. But we know as clearly as seeing it, like we see you in this court, that those who reject us and condemn us on behalf of misguidance will in a very short time be condemned to eternal extinction and solitary confinement and will suffer that awesome punishment, and by virtue of our humanity we earnestly pity them. I am ready to prove this certain and important fact and to silence the most stubborn of them. If I were unable to prove it as clearly as daylight, not to that unscholarly, prejudiced committee of scholars who knew nothing of spiritual and moral matters, but to the greatest scholars and philosophers, I would be content with any punishment!
As an example, I offer the treatise, The Fruits of Belief, which was written for the prisoners on two Fridays, and explaining the principles and bases of the Risale-i Nur, and is like a defence of it. We are working secretly under great difficulties to have this written out in the new letters so as to give it to the departments of government in Ankara. So read and study it carefully! If your heart (I cannot speak for your soul) does not affirm me, I shall remain silent in the face of whatever insults and torment you inflict on me in the solitary confinement in which I now am!
In Short: either allow the Risale-i Nur complete freedom, or smash this powerful and irrefutable truth if you can! Up to now, I have not thought of you and your world. And I was not going to think of it, but you forced me, Perhaps Divine Determining sent us here in order to warn you. As for us, we are resolved to take as our guide the sacred rule, 'Whoever believes in Divine Determining is safe from grief' and to meet all our difficulties with patience.
Prisoner Said Nursi [^241]
[^241]:Nursi, Şualar, 235-6 (Eng. tr.: Rays, 298-9).
In His Name, be He glorified!
Sirs!
I have formed the certain opinion due to numerous indications that we have been attacked on behalf of the government not for disturbing public order by exploiting religious feelings but, behind a tissue of lies, on behalf of atheism, because of our belief and our service to belief and public order. One proof of this out of many is that despite twenty thousand people reading and accepting the twenty thousand copies of the parts of the Risale-i Nur over twenty years, public order has not been disturbed by Students of the Risale-i Nur on any occasion whatsoever, and no such incident has been recorded by the government, and neither the former nor the present courts