science and philosophy are holding fast to it, there is a point that needs explanation:

The philosophy the Risale-i Nur strikes at fiercely and attacks is not absolute; it is the harmful sort. For the philosophy and wisdom that serve the life of human society, and morality and human attainments, and industry and progress, are reconciled with the Qur'an. Indeed, such philosophy serves the Qur'an's wisdom and does not oppose it. This sort the Risale-i Nur does not bother with.

As for the other sort, since it both leads to misguidance, atheism, and the swamp of nature, and is the cause of vice and dissipation, heedlessness and misguidance; and since with its spellbinding wonders it opposes the Qur'an's miraculous truths; the Risale-i Nur attacks and deals slaps at it with the powerful proofs in the comparisons contained in most of its parts. It does not attack beneficial, rightly-guided philosophy. Members of the secular schools, therefore, can embrace the Risale-i Nur without hesitation or objection.

Nevertheless, completely meaninglessly and unjustly, secret dissemblers are turning a number of hojas against the Risale-i Nur, which is the rightful property of the hojas and the people of the medreses (religious schools), and they similarly excite the scholarly pride of certain philosophers. It is possible that they may do this to harm the Risale-i Nur, so it is appropriate to include this piece at the beginning of the collections, The Staff of Moses and Zülfikar. ∗∗∗

A brother of ours and select Nur student, a retired teacher from the village of Mülâyim in the district of Eflâni near Safranbolu, wants to donate the greater part of his capital for the printing and publication of the Risale-i Nur, and requests that this is accepted. I cannot refuse this devoted and special brother's sincere and self-sacrificing request, but since worldly goods have no place in my personal rules and I do not accept aid for myself, I do not know the advantages of this matter. I am therefore referring the matter to the two heroes of Isparta and Husrev and Tahirî and their friends, and to Nazif and his companions. I could not prevent something so good and beneficial for the Risale-i Nur's publication. You may accept either the whole amount he intends or part of it, in two instalments; one may be given to the large duplicating machine in Isparta, and the other to the smaller machine there. You should please that select brother by accepting his gift as he wishes, either as charity, or similarly to others who have