Risale-i Nur and confuse the courts, driving them to perpetrate a ghastly injustice. Here I shall describe one or two examples:

For Example: Because of a letter that conveyed the greetings of my friends in prison and was sent to a man here so that ten liras, which was the price of an Arabic treatise of mine, should be given to a person in Isparta who held those copies and had paid for the printing costs, both the judiciary and the government harassed me, and they searched the man who was the go-between. It surely does not befit the high standing of the judiciary to blow up to this extent a commonplace letter of no importance, the only correspondence in a period of six months.

Second Example: It is hardly in keeping with the government of this province to scare with an official campaign of propaganda everyone, even his helpers, away from an elderly, ailing guest like myself, who is a stranger and has been acquitted of all charges, and to make him utterly wretched. With its sound judgement, it surely should not stoop to making a mountain out of a molehill in this unprecedented way and causing everyone consternation by asking: "Who does he meet with? Who goes around with him?"

There are numerous other such examples that cause astonishment to those who know about them.

Sirs! It is easy to dispel misguidance and misconduct if they arise from ignorance, but if they arise from science and knowledge, they are extremely difficult to eliminate. Since at the present time misguidance arises from science and learning, a work like the Risale-i Nur that is in every way perfect is needed to save those of the coming generations who fall into misguidance, so that they may resist it. Evidence that the Risale-i Nur can do this is that not one of my many, fierce opponents or the men of learning who have received its blows has been able to refute or counter it; nor have three courts of law or the experts' committee appointed by the central government been able to find in nine months a single matter in the hundred books of which the Risale-i Nur consists to indict us. Furthermore, the treatises entitled The Qur'anic Signs [^10] and The Predictions of Imam 'Ali and Gawth al-A'zam (İhbarat-ı Gaybiye-i Aleviye ve Gavsiye), [^11] which have induced complete certainty in the rigorous Risale-i Nur students, have

[^10]:The Qur'anic Signs (İşarât-ı Kur'aniye) is the First Ray (Birinci Şua); it is included in Turkish editions of The Rays Collection (Şualar). [Tr.]

[^11]:These refer to the Eighth Ray, Eighteenth Flash and First Point of the Twenty-Eighth Flash, and the Eighth Flash respectively; they are included in Ottoman Turkish editions of The Flashes Collection (Lem'alar). [Tr.]