a single book out of the one hundred and thirty-three books of the Risale-i Nur mentioned that slap. So to seize all the books because of it is a cruel injustice like punishing one hundred and thirty-three men because of one man's error. The books of anti-patriotic, anti-religious atheists, heretics, and communists being found in bookshops and libraries and people reading them, even the thoroughly anti-Islamic book of Dr. Dozy, demonstrates that this seizure of the Risale-i Nur is an unjustifiable, wrongful injustice.

No religious scholar or philosopher has objected to or criticized the Risale-i Nur these past twenty-eight years although it has been distributed in the main centres of the Islamic world and in this country. The courts and politicians have objected to only two matters; one, about Islamic dress, the other about a commander at the end of time wearing a brimmed hat and forcibly making others wear it. Subsequently, four or five courts acquitted all the books including those two matters. So now to seize the Risale-i Nur with its twenty thousand pages due to those one or two pages, as though convicting it, resembles this: if a man attacks another, not unfairly but fairly, but others do not deem this an offence nor do five courts of law count it a crime, to seize twenty thousand pages of the Risale-i Nur because of two pages and imprison them in Afyon for four and a half years, like convicting twenty thousand men due to an imaginary offence, is an error and crime a hundred times greater than that attack, and an assault against this country.

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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: Endless thanks be to Almighty God that you, the leading students of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ, demonstrate that medrese's essential meaning, which for fifty-five years has been my long-sought goal and is a result of my life.

Secondly: Since I am unable due to severe illness and other causes to speak with my Nurju brothers and I am deprived of their conversation, I appoint both you, and the lessons the Risale-i Nur has given to the New Said in the Qur'an medrese, and the lessons concerning the life of society the Old Said received in the medrese of The Damascus Sermon and its