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My Dear, Loyal Brothers !
The teacher Mustafa Sungur, one of the young Nur heroes, brought me festival greetings from our brothers in Eflâni, Safranbolu, Kastamonu, İnebolu, Daday, and Araç. So as a young Said, we sent him to those brothers to congratulate them on both the material and spiritual festival. And we sent diligent Mehmed Çalışkan, the Süleyman Rüştü of Emirdağ, to Istanbul to get The Shining Lamp and to enquire about the books that are being sent abroad.
Having been defeated in every respect, those opposed to the Risale-i Nur are pursuing a plan that on the face of it looks unpleasant for us, but in reality is more beneficial for the Risale-i Nur. They seem to think that they are going to break the solidarity of the Nur students and for some unknowable reason cause some of their leading members to go elsewhere. But if they do go, it is because they are needed in those places and it will not injure their unanimity. For instance, they are the cause of Muharrem going to Tavas, Mustafa Osman to Karabük, and Re'fet to Istanbul and of dispersing them. These brothers of ours depart for those places as though voluntarily, but in reality the ground is being prepared imperceptibly with the intention of damaging their solidarity.
Another of their schemes is that although according to their principles we deserve to be imprisoned, they appear not to support it and apparently oppose it. The reason for this is that our covert enemies were quite astonished when Denizli Prison became a Nur School and some people who were transferred from there to other prisons, started to illuminate them too; that is why they supported our release from prison. Also, acknowledging in a sort of way the justice and rightness of the Risale-i Nur, the judiciary held back in order to avoid the severe objections of the future and disregarded the articles of the arbitrary laws that were prejudicial to us. Some obdurate atheists were defeated in the face the Risale-i Nur's truth and gave up their obstinacy. And the covert enemies demanded in alarm that we should be released from prison so that the prisons should not turn into Nur Schools. That is to say, three groups of people supported the unanimous decision for our acquittal. This was a wonder bestowed on the Risale-i Nur by divine providence. Yes, this evening I felt quite certainly that just as three of this century's most fearsome commanders had been intimidated: both the Operation Army's commander-in-chief during the Thirty-First of March Incident, and the foreign commander of the Istanbul occupation forces during the national movement following the First World War — his being intimidated and not attacking us, and in Ankara in the