So, supported by the fact that the clever fields of Europe and America have produced crops of brilliant and exacting scholars like Carlyle and Bismarck, I say with all assurance: Europe and America are pregnant with Islam; one day they will give birth to an Islamic state. Just as the Ottomans were pregnant with Europe and gave birth to a European state. [^40]

[^40]:Damascus Sermon, 35.

Moreover, the veils that have eclipsed the sun of Islam, hindered its emergence and prevented it illuminating mankind have begun to disperse. Those things that were hindering it have begun to fall back. The signs of the dawn appeared forty-five years ago. Then the true dawn broke in 1371/1951, or it will break. Even if it is the false dawn, in thirty or forty years' time the true dawn will break. [^41]

[^41]:Damascus Sermon, 32.

O my brothers who are here in the Umayyad Mosque and those who are in the mosque of the world of Islam half a century later! Do the introductory remarks, that is, those made up to here, not point to the conclusion that it is Islam that will be the true, and spiritual, ruler over the future, and only Islam that will lead mankind to happiness in this world and the next; and that true Christianity, stripping off superstition and corrupted belief, will be transformed into Islam; following the Qur'an, it will unite with Islam? [^42]

[^42]:Damascus Sermon, 35-6.

Respected panel of judges! The most decisive, legal reply to all the slanders and accusations against the Risale-i Nur's author is the fact that three courts of law and three experts' committees have returned his works after scrutinizing them.

Moreover, although our Master's twenty-seven years of exile and the one hundred and thirty treatises of his works and his letters have all been studied by three courts and by government officials, and although those officials were forced to convict him by the tryannical apostates and dissemblers opposing him, and secret orders had even been given for his execution, they could find not even the slightest sign that he had exploited religion for political ends, which proves categorically that he has not done so. We Nur students who know him closely are astonished at this extraordinary stance of his and consider it to be evidence of the true sincerity of the Risale-i Nur circle.

We await from justice and your consciences that with your just decision