certain affirmative belief in this blessed land these last twenty years, would this land have been able to preserve its Qur'an and belief from the terrible blows of the revolutions and explosions of this dreadful age? However. The Risale-i Nur may not attacked due to its allegedly harming the country and government; they can no longer get anyone to believe such a thing. But now, switching their front and behind the veil of religion, dissemblers are employing sly tricks to use simple-minded hojas or supporters of innovation or egotistical sufistically inclined people against the Risale-i Nur, as they did two years ago in Istanbul and in the region of Denizli; they are trying to attack the Risale-i Nur and its students on another front. God willing, they will not succeed. So acting with perfect caution and circumspection, the Risale-i Nur students should pay no attention when they are attacked and should not get drawn into arguments. If they are attacked by religious scholars or believers who have been deceived, they should be friendly towards them and pacify them saying: "We don't bother you, so don't you bother us!"

Secondly

Küçük Ali, small in name but great in spirit, a hero among the blessed who bears a resemblance to both Abdurrahman and Lütfi and Hâfız Ali the Elder, asks a question. Its answer, however, is written in a hundred places in the Risale-i Nur. He asks: What is the reason for the great concentration of arguments concerning the pillars of belief in the Risale-i Nur? Our former teachers taught us that a great saint's belief is similar to that of an ordinary believer.

The Answer: Both in The Supreme Sign, in the discussion about the degrees of belief, and near its end, is the statement of Imam Rabbani, the Regenerator of the Second Millennium, [^44] which says: "The end and most important aim of all the Sufi paths is the unfolding of the truths of belief. Clarity and certainty in a single matter of belief is preferable to thousands of illuminations and instances of wonder-working." Also, the part of the letter right at the end of The Supreme Sign, taken from The Additional Letters, and the explanations of all of it, answer the question, as does the Tenth Topic of The Fruits of Belief, which is about repetition in the Qur'an, and the fact that the wisdom of the frequently repeated emphasis

[^44]:Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī (d. 1034/1624) was born in Sirhind in India; he is popularly known as Imam Rabbani and also as the Regenerator of the Second Millennium (Mujaddid-i Alf-i Thānī). He purified Islam of heterodox accretions and was founder of the Mujaddidī branch of the Naqshbandī Order. [Tr.]