there are now famous preachers in Sweden, Norway, Finland and England working to have the Qur'an accepted, and the important community of America is searching for the true religion. In view of this fact, the Qur'an by no means has — nor can have — any equal. Absolutely nothing can take the place of this greatest miracle." [^35]
[^35]:A Guide for Youth (Istanbul: Sözler Publications, 2012), 55-7.
Respected judges! Could the use of the word ihtar at the head of this important piece, a short section of which we have included above, be an indictable offence? Could it have been used to secure personal influence? Or by showing that humanity has started to search out the Qur'an's truths, does it predict and prove that the Qur'an will prevail over humankind in the future? We refer this matter to your elevated judgement.
The Risale-i Nur's author describes the purely true warnings he has received from the Qur'an's instruction, as proof of the veracity of the subjects he is explaining. Anyone who studies them attentively may see that they are pure truth. Anyone may perceive how this Marvel who rejoices in the oceans of belief and treasuries of divine unity and wisdom will live triumphantly in the millions of hearts of forthcoming generations, and will be applauded by them. He may discern that similarly to its thousand years of proud deeds, the Turkish nation will again embrace the truths of Islam in place of its heroic forefathers, who were an example to all the world, and assuming the duties of standard-bearer of the Qur'an, dominate the lands of the future. To understand this most elevated and important truth, one has only to read the sermon Bediuzzaman delivered in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus forty years ago in 1327 (early 1911) to a congregation of ten thousand among which were one hundred religious scholars. He is at present translating the work into Turkish, for at that time when the Islamic world was wretched and captive, it gave the good news that in the future through the strength of Islam the virtues of civilization would prevail, although then its evils predominated, and the sun of Islam would shine over whole nations and continents. It predicted this, and explained and proved it.
Since the so-called experts' committee were unable to penetrate to the meaning of the sentence "a matter imparted to my heart" and misinterpreted it, and the matter is related to the truths concerning the Islamic world's future which are explained in The Damascus Sermon, we present here to the court a translation of the work, including here only a few sentences from the end of the questions proved in the work: