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My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

The plots they have been hatching against me these last few months have been uncovered, and thanks to divine protection, the calamity was reduced twentyfold.

I used to go the mosque when it was empty. Then without my knowledge, the students made a small cubicle for me in the mahfel so that I should not catch cold. For four or five days I decided not to go there. But then, using that well-known policeman, they removed the cubicle and sent me an official order saying that I could no longer go to the mosque. Without reason they made a mountain out of a molehill and caused a stir. But it is of no account, so don't worry. I reckon that their disparaging me on empty pretexts is to destroy public regard for me on all sides, which is anyway greater than my due. They think of what I used to be like and suppose I shall be unable to abide it. Whereas on condition no harm comes to the well-being and spread of the Risale-i Nur, I offer thanks to God even if I am treated with contempt and tormented a thousand times over. I give no importance to it, and the students here are not shaken at all. Through divine grace, this long-awaited incident caused little harm.

I send greetings to each of all our brothers and offer prayers. ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

I received a powerful reminder to restate a matter of the greatest importance, which I had previously explained to you briefly. It is as follows:

There have been signs around here that because the covert assaults of hostile dissemblers and their exploiting the judiciary, politics, and government for open irreligion came to nothing, they have abandoned their former intrigues against the triumphs of the Risale-i Nur and are hatching an even more devious and underhand plot which would leave even Satan in astonishment. The chief part of their plan is to deter our select, devoted brothers and make them slack, and if possible, give up the Risale-i Nur altogether. They employ such extraordinary lies and intrigues that as with the heroic students of the Rose and Light Factories in Isparta and that region, steadfastness, loyalty, and resolve are imperative in order to withstand them. Some of them appear in the guise of friends, and if it is possible to intimidate people, make molehills into mountains and arouse