and he was much in need of it, was this: a time would come when personal, minor strengths would be unable to withstand the assaults of awesome, immaterial enemies, and it would become necessary to earnestly seek people with fine handwriting to share in the work, and to serve that nonmaterial tree like the water, air, and light serves a seed. Then a universal, general, and powerful pen would be needed in place of that personal, minor service, so as to attain true sincerity by melting icey egotism in that blessed pool, and serving belief in this way. The wisdom was this.

The Enduring One, He is the Enduring One! ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers !

We congratulate you on the blessed festival. God willing, you will live to see a great festival for the Islamic world. There are numerous signs that, as the source of sacred constitutions for the United Islamic States, the All-Wise Qur'an will prevail fully over the future and bring about a grand festival for all humankind.

Secondly: No doubt remains that the Risale-i Nur and the Nur students are under the protection of divine providence for despite the sensitivity of the times, with their arbitrary laws and interminable obduracy they have been able to cause one per cent of harm to the Nur students. The plan was to preoccupy six hundred of the active Nur students with court cases, but only six of them were subject to punitive treatment. In fact, as described by the Nur champion, twenty-five courts could find nothing indictable in hundreds of thousands of copies of the Risale-i Nur's treatises and hundreds of thousands of Nur students. It is decisive evidence that these numerous courts admitted that they could find nothing reprehensible in the Risale-i Nur. For just as such courts as Istanbul and Afyon did not convict me although what I said in them was completely opposed to their sensitive and easily misinterpretable laws; so too, they could find nothing indictable in the Risale-i Nur, although it confounds the unjust laws of civilization. This demonstrates clearly that the truth contained in the Risale-i Nur has defeated those who contest it and induced the law courts to be fair and just. Divine providence preserves the Risale-i Nur, which is a miracle of the Qur'an, from its opponents. Its adversaries' attacks make it shine even brighter and are means of its spreading. ∗∗∗