perceived this secret plan, because all the officials around here, and even the governor, kaymakam, and police avoid me and are scared. I was amazed at this. But anyone with a grain of sense has understood that we have nothing but light and the Risale-i Nur, and that we do not wield the club of politics. It is strange, but the officials who should have worked most in our favour, were employed and used against us.

The Nurjus have to be extremely circumspect, careful, and calm-headed, for there are storms in the air and cunning dissemblers insinuate themselves everywhere. They infiltrate the liberty-seeking parties although they are anti-religious and support absolute despotism, so that they might corrupt them and learn their secrets and divulge them.

Also, in connection with Salâhaddin giving The Staff of Moses to the American we say this: It is essential that missionaries and pious Christians, as well as Nurjus, are extremely careful, for certainly, with the idea of defending itself against the attacks of the religions of Islam and Christianity, the current from the north will try to destroy the accord of Islam and the missionaries. Making concessions to the lower classes, and inviting the middle classes to assist the common people through the obligatory payment of the purification tax and the prohibition of interest and usury, and preventing them from tyrannizing them, they may deceive the Muslims, and giving them privileges may draw them over to their side.

However, this time I have broken my rule for your sake, and considered worldly affairs.

S a i d   N u r s i ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

I am compelled to reply to your very relevant letters with a single short one.

Firstly: Re'fet's questions have led to the emergence of numerous luminous truths. His both teaching the Qur'an and the Risale-i Nur to innocent children, and himself being busy with the Flashes (Lem'alar), and his helping me and Husrev with the corrections, and his endeavouring to give fair-minded scholars in Istanbul copies of The Staff of Moses deserve congratulation. But for now his new question cannot be answered, for the time has not yet come.

The heroic Burhan gave a fine answer to the leader of the Free Party. The Nurjus are not concerned with politics; their whole lives are tied to the