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The Nur students have never interfered in politics and have never joined any party. For belief belongs to everyone. There are people in every group who need it and who profess it. The students do not take sides. They take up sides only against disbelief, atheism and misguidance. Brotherhood between believers is a fundamental principle of the Risale-i Nur's way. ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

I should have explained this matter to you long ago, but I forgot. It is this: most of the verses in the treatise The Miraculousness of the Qur'an, the Twenty-Fifth Word, have been criticized by atheists or objected to by scientists, or have been the object of the doubts and scepticism of satans among jinn and men. The treatise, therefore, explains the true meanings and fine points of those verses in such a way that the very points that the atheists and scientists supposed were faulty are flashes of miraculousness and sources of the perfections of the Qur'an's eloquence. These are proved according to scholarly rules and decisive answers are given, but so as not to cause confusion, their doubts are not mentioned. Their doubts are mentioned only in explanations of such verses as "And the mountains [its] pegs" (Q 78:8) and "And the sun runs its course to a place appointed" (Q 36:38), [^64] and three or four verses in the First Station of the Twentieth Word.

[^64]:See, The Twenty-Fifth Word (The Miraculousness of the Qur'an), First Light, Second Ray, in Words, 402, 404. [Tr.]

Moreover, for sure The Miraculousness of the Qur'an is very short and condensed and was written at speed, but its matters are elucidated in so learned, profound, and powerful a fashion in respect of the sciences of rhetoric and Arabic that it left the scholars in amazement. Not all attentive readers will fully understand and benefit from all the discussions, but everyone may pick a significant share from its garden. Although it was written hastily and in disturbed conditions, and the manner of expression is faulty in places, it explains and clarifies matters of the greatest importance in the light of those sciences. ∗∗∗

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Now that the Risale-i Nur is being duplicated by machine and is spreading generally and many school children and teachers who study modern