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In His Name, be He glorified!

Peace be upon you and God's mercy and blessings, for ever and ever!

My Dear, Loyal Brothers !

Firstly: Firstly: I congratulate you with all my heart on all the festivals and holy nights, both those of the past and future, and the material ones and the spiritual ones, and entreat divine mercy that your prayers and worship are acceptable, and say "Amen" to them.

Secondly: I am compelled to answer privately two of your questions which in many ways are important and you have frequently asked implicitly:

Your First Question: Why was it that in the early Second Constitutional Period you were passionately involved in politics, yet for nearly forty years now you have given them up completely?

The Answer: I understood with complete certainty that the ghastly crimes committed by mankind up to the present sprang from the abuse of the law which is basic to politics and may be expressed as "Individuals may be sacrificed for the good of the nation; persons may be sacrificed for the well-being of the community; everything may be sacrificed for the fatherland." This fundamental law created by man is indeterminate and has therefore opened up the way to excessive abuse. This wrongful law issued the fatwa for the two world wars and overturned a thousand years of human progress. So too it permitted the annihilation of ninety innocents on account of ten criminals. On the pretext of the general good, personal hatred razed a town because of a single criminal. The Risale-i Nur has proved this fact in some of its collections and defence speeches, so I refer you to them.

Thus, in the face of this unjust law of man's politics and diplomacy I discovered the below-mentioned fundamental laws of the Qur'an of Miraculous Exposition, which comes from the Sublime Throne. They are expressed by these verses:

No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another (Q 6: 164 etc.).

∗ If anyone slays a human being — unless it be [in punishment] for murder or for spreading corruption on earth — it shall be as though he had slain all mankind (Q 5:32).

These two verses teach the following principle: others are not answerable for a person's crime, and without his consent, an innocent person may not be sacrificed for the whole of humankind even. If he voluntarily gives his