put their signatures to the importance of the Risale-i Nur this age, and to its acceptability.

It is the duty of the courts to defend rights and to halt the aggression of the lawless, It has been established that the hundred parts of the Risale-i Nur have for the last twenty years served the well-being of a hundred thousand people, and in ten years two courts, the central government, and the police of several provinces — and in connection with Denizli Court, nine months of scrutiny — have found nothing harmful for the nation and country or indictable in any of my papers and writings, both private and otherwise. Most certainly, therefore, the Risale-i Nur possesses universal, powerful rights in this country. So I remind you that it in no way befits the nature of the judiciary or the reality of justice to disregard such important rights and to ignore by confiscating it as though it were mere scraps of paper, the great injustice towards the nation and the unfortunates who are in need of having their faith strengthened, while attaching considerable importance to the minor rights of some inferior wretch.

We are fearful that it may may attract divine wrath if the Risale-i Nur is attacked while the works of atheists like Dr. Dozy are not interfered with. May Almighty God grant you fair-mindedness and compassion, and us patience and fortitude. Amen.

Said Nursi,

who is being held unofficially in total isolation ∗∗∗

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In His Name, be He glorified!

In accordance with "And consult them in matters [of import]" (Q 3: 159), I am in need of consulting with my brothers.

My Dear, Loyal Brothers !

Now I am faced with a fait accompli. The order has arrived to give me a daily allowance of two and a half liras and to prepare a house for me again, fully furnished and according to my tastes. But my lifelong guiding principle of fifty to sixty years obliges me not to accept it. It's true that for a couple of years in the Darü'l-Hikmeti'l-İslamiye I accepted a salary, but I gave most of it gratis to the nation by spending it on printing my books; I returned to the nation what belonged to it. If I now have to accept this so that harm should not come to you and to the Risale-i Nur, I shall put it by