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In His Name, be He glorified!

We heard the terrible news that two of the large collections of the wondrous Risale-i Nur Collection were going to be destroyed. Together with its other parts, those collections, which are completely true and veracious and silence the scientistic philosophers, have been acquitted by the courts of Denizli and Ankara and become res judicata, and their acquittal has been twice upheld by the Court of Appeal. The works have been appreciated and applauded in such centres of the Islamic world as Egypt, Damascus, Aleppo, Mecca, and Medina, and in recognition of that appreciation have been placed on the blessed tomb of the Prophet Muhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace), and on the Black Stone in the Ka'ba. Like the other transgressions of the Republican People's Party, this vicious treatment is an unprecedented outrage. We Nur students could easily have demanded our rights from those cruel tyrants, but by reason of the powerful compassion that the Risale-i Nur has induced in us towards the innocent children and elderly of the heroic Turkish nation, which for centuries was the standard-bearer of the Islam, and by virtue of the Qur'an's forbidding us from physical struggle and being a light we hold rather than a club, and due to the fundamental principle of our way, to maintain public order, we have been unable to respond to those tyrants materially. For, God forbid, if there were a definite necessity, those who cause it on account of the communists and Masons would regret it a thousand times over.

Furthermore, in consequence of our observations, we have come to hold the firm opinion that general calamities occur whenever the Risale-i Nur is assaulted in the name of atheism and irreligion. This has been confirmed by the fact that four times severe earthquakes have occurred simultaneously with attacks, and many other things have happened. We are therefore alarmed at the powerful possibility that if such a decision is carried out, causing the believers to tremble, and the crime towards those wondrous, valuable, blessed collections is perpetrated, spiritual storms and tempests, and earthquakes and plagues will be visited on this nation and country. For the coincidence four times of severe earthquakes with assaults on the Risale-i Nur has demonstrated this fact even to the blind. We even claimed this in court. No law in the world could seize and destroy the four-hundred-page Zülfikar Collection on the pretext of two pages expounding two verses of the Qur'an in line with the three hundred and fifty thousand commentaries of the exegetists, although it has most effectively served the