A Guide for Youth is one part of the Risale-i Nur, which consists of one hundred and thirty parts and is a mine of belief, knowledge, and virtue. Because we know and can prove that this nation is bound with all its life and spirit to the elevated truths that the Risale-i Nur contains and is a treasury and guide leading the nation to both material and spiritual happiness, we reject the accusations of the experts' committee and with all our strength throw it back at it. We submit the following to the judges of the court:

The report submitted by the experts' committee is an example of the conspiracy to cast aspersions on the life, history, customs, and laws of this country and nation, and on all they hold sacred. It is totally foreign, contemptuous of the present laws, belittles the government, denigrates the thousand-year history of this nation and insults all its forefathers, and attacks the beliefs of our twenty million brothers who live in this country today. It is not possible for a court of justice to consider it to be creditable.

We ask those who assumed the name of experts and put their signatures to this treacherous document, is this nation irreligious? Has this nation been depraved for centuries, without religion or belief? Did those forefathers who gilded the shining history of this nation spend all their lives tramping the roads of disbelief and scattering vice and misguidance to the world? Is it a lie that the great conquerors whose heroism fills history and the nation to which they belonged, which opened a new age on conquering Istanbul, and with its being the standard-bearer of the Qur'an, brought the light of guidance, knowledge, and virtue to East and West and instructed Europe in true civilization, and illuminated humanity with the light of Islamic civilization? Or is it a lie that with the instruction it received from Islam, this nation adorned its women and girls with behaviour inspired by the Qur'an, protecting their honour and dignity and preventing them being treated as common chattels. Could it be the case that our forefathers, male and female, who were famous as the Turkish champions of Islam and we know to have been at the pinnacle of good morals, honour, and rectitude, and whom we take pride in, on the contrary, did not follow the Qur'an or conduct themselves in accordance with its mores, but displayed themselves naked to the world?

We address the fair-minded and the present generation who take pride in their history and heroic ancestors and all they held sacred. Come and see! Express your regret and condemnation of these slanderers, who have written and signed this treacherous documents which insults your history and your religion of Islam, and disparages and affronts the name of Islam, which you know to be the very spirit of your spirit, and the Qur'an, which