It cannot be said of someone like me who has abandoned social life for the last twenty-five years: "He is obstinately opposing us !" Even supposing it is obstinacy, seeing that neither Mustafa Kemal could break it, nor two courts or the governments of three provinces, who are you that you should strive to break it to the harm of both the nation and the government? Even if he were a political opponent, since you have affirmed that he has had no relations with the world for twenty years and has been as good as dead, it is crazy to imagine that he would come to life and embark on a political career that would be of no benefit to him; indeed, extremely harmful. It is crazy to talk seriously with crazy people, so I'm not going to talk to people like you. I said: "Do whatever you like, I'm not obliged to you!" and both annoyed them and shut them up.

My last word: "God suffices us and He is the best Disposer of Affairs" (Q 3:173). ∗ "The Best of Friends and the Best of Helpers" (Q 8:40). ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

You may write out this piece at the head of the collection of treatises and letters that confirm the Risale-i Nur's acceptance; or if not the collections, at least at the head of the First Ray. Don't worry about me; since the rewards for suffering difficulties are copious, it makes me love them in a way. Anyway, they open up possibilities for the Risale-i Nur's dissemination in other fields.

I send greetings to each and every one of you.

It is the first of the eight pieces that affirm the Risale-i Nur's acceptability and give news of it with hidden signs. Their all indicating unanimously the same matter and same objective is virtually explicit. The signs strengthen and corroborate each other since the matters are the same. Three of the eight concern Imam 'Ali giving news of the Risale-i Nur with his wondrous insight into the Unseen. The Ankara experts' committee studied these eight pieces and did not object to them, they only said that they should not have been written since people with such powers should not broadcast them. So I wrote in reply to them:

This is the Risale-i Nur's wonder-working, not mine. They were silent, which meant they accepted it. Actually it would be better not to describe divine gifts of this sort, but in the face of so many opponents and powerful, numerous enemies, it was definitely necessary to strengthen with assistance from the Unseen the morale of us who are so few, weak, and want-