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My Dear, Loyal Brothers !
Firstly: We congratulate both all the Nurjus on their holy festival, and the Nur students who are making the Hajj and the supporters of the Risale-i Nur who are also on the Hajj. The festival brings us good news, for it is celebrating the preliminaries of the Islamic world's great festival of the coming together in unity as Islamic states of such large countries in the Islamic world as India and Arabia, which have for a long time past lost their independence and been in subjection — an Islamic state in India with its population of one hundred million, and an Islamic state in Java with its population of more than fifty million, and four or five governments in Arabia coming together in Arab unity as united republics and forming Islamic unity.
Secondly: According to what Re'fet Bey and Mustafa Oruç have written, in Istanbul, over the portal of the splendid building that served as the Ministry of War and headquarters of the army, from which for years the army of Islam was commanded and was subsequently handed over to the university, are inscribed in the Qur'anic script the meaningful verses: "Verily We have granted thee a manifest victory ... And that God may help thee with powerful help." (Q 48: 1, 3) These verses were later covered with marble slabs and their lights were concealed. Now, as an example of the Qur'anic script once again being permitted, the marble slabs have been removed, which assists the objectives the Risale-i Nur follows and is a sign that in the future the university will be a Nur School. And in a passage the Denizli Nurju Ahmeds have taken from one of the works of Bismarck, [^99] who was one of the nineteenth century's most eminent social philosophers and a great genius, he says: "I have studied the Qur'an from every angle, and I have seen wisdom in every one of its words. It is unequalled and for the government of humankind there is no work to match it." And addressing the Prophet (UWBP), he says: "O Muhammad! I am indeed sad that I am not your contemporary. Only once has humanity seen a power as outstanding as yours. I therefore bow in reverence in your presence." Bismarck put his signature to this. He so belittled the corrupted, abrogated revealed scriptures in the piece he wrote, those sentences should not have been written; I indicated this too.
[^99]:This was most probably taken from Eşref Edip's work, Kur'an — Garp Mütefekkirlerine Göre Kur'an'ın Azamet ve İhtişamı Hakkında Dünya Mütefekkirlerinin Şehadetleri (Istanbul: 1958). [Tr.]
The facts that Bismarck was the most brilliant and eminent philosopher