from the atheistic collective personality born of secret revolutionary and other societies. An if his soul and ego are perverse, a person who wants to believe may say: "This holy person is deceiving us with his brilliance and wondrous station." And he may remain in doubt.

Thanks be to God, beneath the accusations of exploiting religion for politics these last twenty-eight years and outside my will, divine determining has been striking me totally justly with the tyrannous hand of man so as not to make religion the tool of anything personal. That is, it was warning me: "Beware! Beware! Don't exploit the truths of belief for your own person! Then those needy for belief may understand that it is only the truth that speaks, and the anxiety of the soul and tricks of Satan may be silenced and cease!"

In truth, millions of books write eloquently about the truths that the Risale-i Nur discusses and thousands of true scholars have taught them, yet they have been unable to halt fully the awesome flood of absolute disbelief in this country. Whereas by reason of the above, the Risale-i Nur has overcome it to an extent, as even its enemies agree. Yes, the Risale-i Nur has performed this task against absolute disbelief in these taxing conditions, That is to say, its power arises from this might mystery.

So with my whole spirit I felt resigned towards the torments and calamities I had suffered for the past twenty-eight years. I forgave all of them and I told just divine determining that I deserved its compassionate slaps. For if I had taken the completely licit, harmless way that everyone takes for God's sake and had not sacrificed entirely my physical and spiritual feelings, I would have lost this extraordinary non-material power which is found in serving belief. A strange example of the power was that someone read a book about the truths of belief by certain persons of whom I could be only the lowest student, and then read a page of the Risale-i Nur, and declared that that one page of the Risale-i Nur had saved his belief to a great extent than the other book.

The Enduring One, He is the Enduring One!

Your brother who is in need of your prayers,

S a i d   N u r s i ∗∗∗

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Our Master says that it is good that the trials have been postponed. The fact that upto now the troubles inflicted on the Risale-i Nur and on the Nurjus have been transformed into mercy shows that there must be