Frugality, it is essential for everyone at this time. And as for the Eighteenth Flash, The Wonder-working of 'Ali (Keramet-i Aleviye), it had evidently been sent to them by mistake together with the other treatises. I allow only my very closest students to read it, let alone having it printed. It anyway is not concerned with this world. Moreover, the experts' committee and the court studied it and returned it to us.

Also, ten years ago at a most distressing time in Eskişehir Prison when I was truly in need of a solace, some good news of a spiritual nature occurred to my heart and I wrote it down. It was not a question of printing and publishing it together with those treatises and the copies of the letters I had written these last two, rather four or five, years; it was sent together with them at the request of one or two close friends of mine who had wanted to read it. The reason I wrote the letters was in order to console some friends who were suffering the wretchedness of prison because of me, and to converse with them and exchange ideas about the Risale-i Nur, which for the last twenty years has been most beneficial for the lives in this world and the next of this nation and country. There may also have been some letters I had written both to yourself and to the authorities in Ankara among the works that were seized. This, then, is what the letters and treatises that were seized by the detectives consisted of. I am explaining these facts as they may possibly have reached you by now or will do so. I am hopeful that out of your devotion to duty and your seriousness you will not permit illegal harassment of me due to groundless fears, adding to the severe difficulties I am suffering at this time. ∗∗∗

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My Dear Brothers !

His are all praise and blessings! In all its might and awesomeness a moral victory of the Risale-i Nur was witnessed yesterday in Istanbul. A society and its press organs which want to spread absolute unbelief throughout the world and especially in the Islamic world, and their printing presses and libraries, were stormed and ransacked [^47] and protested against verbally and by action by the very youth and students of the secular schools they supposed they had made into communists. They were cursed and execrated. Their society suffered thousands of liras of material damage

[^47]:This refers to the sacking of the Tan newspaper in Istanbul on 4 December 1945. [Tr.]