erty of the rich to vagabonds and the poor and proffers the daughters and wives of the honourable to licentious youths, and in a short time has seized half of Europe, Those bombs are the atom bombs of the truths of the Qur'an and belief; they may halt that dreadful leftist current. Such a universal force cannot be halted with the material penalties, dealt out to one man out of a hundred, by the judiciary.

For this reason, the religious deputies postponing this matter, which should be expedited, has led to the globe of the atmosphere objecting to it with severe cold, as we have previously experienced many times.

Humanity has experienced a powerful awakening as a result of the two ghastly world wars, due to which, most certainly, no nation can now exist without religion. Russia cannot remain without religion, nor will it return to Christianity. At the very most, it will be reconciled with the Qur'an, which smashes absolute disbelief, is based on truth and reality, and is founded on proof and evidence and persuades the intellect and heart; or it may follow it. Then, it will not draw the sword against the four hundred million adherents of the Qur'an.

S a i d   N u r s i ∗∗∗

► (066) ◄

My Dear, Loyal Brothers !

Firstly: I congratulate you on the Night of the Prophet's (UWBP) Birth with all my life and spirit, and I give you the good news of your success and the extraordinarily effective spread of the Risale-i Nur, And we congratulate the Nurjus.

Secondly: This blessed night, I received a severe admonishment in my heart due to which two ideas occurred to me in connection with the Istanbul University Nur students describing the wonders of the Old Said and New Said in the biography.

The First: My friends have formed an opinion of me far exceeding my due, concerning some prodigious sainthood. And among opponents and philosophers an apprehension has formed, again far surpassing my due, of a truly wondrous genius, and among some of them even, of powerful magical powers, An explanation of this has been sought from me in many places, as to what the truth is. So owing to the powerful warning I received this night, I have been obliged to explain a fact with many preliminaries.

First Preliminary: The seed of the pine, as tiny as a grain of wheat, is the source of a mighty pine tree; divine power creates the vast tree from the