Feyzi, he wrote in a fine, literary style and showed his extraordinary loyalty and good will. However, he credited me with a station far higher than is my due, instead of ascribing it to the Risale-i Nur's collective personality; he saw his Master to be very brilliant in his own shining mirror. So I accepted his commendation as a prayer. We congratulate both himself and our brothers in that district on the festival. ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers !

Up until the present, covert dissemblers have attacked the Risale-i Nur by deceiving members of the government, making use of the law and judiciary, and from the point of view of public security and administration. And we, when forced to, assumed a defensive position because we act positively. Now their plans have been confounded. Indeed, their assaults extended the Risale-i Nur's influence. Our intention now to print The Staff of Moses (Asâ-yi Mûsâ) in the new letters, seems as though the Risale-i Nur is being made to assume an offensive stance, outside our will. A significant reason for this must be as follows:

I reckon that because the Risale-i Nur is a spiritual saviour of this blessed land, the time has come, or will come, for it to make an appearance in the world of publishing, and to give instruction, in order to repulse two awesome calamities.

One of those calamities is the awesome current of irreligion which has emerged to the north and breeds anarchy, and has defeated Christianity. It occurred to my heart that similarly to the barrier of Dhu'l-Qarnayn, the Risale-i Nur might act as a Qur'anic barrier against the flood overrunning this blessed country, and that it had become necessary to speak with the printed word in order to reply to and dispel the fierce criticisms and accusations of the Islamic world against this country's people.

I am not informed about the state of the world, but just as the Risale-i Nur's truths are a fortress withstanding the monstrous current which is overwhelming Europe and is not based on the revealed religions; so too those truths are a Qur'anic miracle which may dispel the present objections and accusations of the Islamic world and continent of Asia and regain their love and brotherhood. This country's patriotic politicians should come quickly to their senses and publish the Risale-i Nur officially, so that it may act as a shield against those two calamities.

I wonder, if it had not been for the Risale-i Nur's so potently spreading