and peace and freedom and justice; it may not be attacked on the pretext of its harming the country and government. They can no longer induce anyone to believe such a false excuse. But changing their tactics, behind the screen of religion and employing sly tricks, dissemblers may attempt to use some simple-minded hojas or supporters of the innovations or egotistical sufistically inclined people against the Risale-i Nur, as they did two years ago in Istanbul and Denizli. God willing, they won't be successful. ∗∗∗

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My Brothers!

It has now become clear that their insulting me and treating me contemptuously was a secret strategy contrived officially in order to destroy public regard for me. They are trying covertly to make my friends look coldly on me and to intimidate them. The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen, however, overturns all their propaganda. It's true that their insulting me on account of irreligion is somewhat annoying and irritates a few remaining veins of the Old Said, but in the face of the wondrous victories of the Risale-i Nur and its students being met with respect and kindness by the people of reality (ehl-i hakikat) and the angels and spirit beings, my person being treated contemptuously has the importance of not even a mosquito's wing. In so far as those despicable wretches destroy the respect in which, in regard to religion, the religiously minded and religious scholars are held, they are being contemptuous towards Islam and are execrated by the angels, spirit beings, believers, and people of reality; they win only the applause of one or two louts or atheists. As though by insulting me they are lessening the Risale-i Nur's influence; by attacking my person supposing it to be the source of the Risale-i Nur, they foolishly imagine it will fall.

So I say this: You wretches who insult me contemptuously on account of irreligion! I tell you with complete certainty that on condition you don't repent, the executioner of the appointed hour will hang you on the gallows of an eternal death sentence from which there is no escape. Your evil spirits will be condemned to everlasting solitary confinement and you will win the disgust and curses of the believers and spirit beings. But because I know that as long as you don't repent, my revenge will be taken on you many times over, I feel not anger at you, but pity.

Even if people like you who don't have the importance of a fly try to eclipse the Risale-i Nur, they cannot curb its influence, for through it hundreds of thousands of people have saved their belief, so they esteem and