you will overturn the plans of the covert, cruel enemies who are opposed to his services to this country and nation's happiness, and seek to destroy him with slanders, and that you will throw back in their faces the false accusations of the calumniators. And we offer you our respects.

Nur students from Eskişehir,

Yaşar, Osman Toprak, Ahmed, Osman,

Şükrü, Bayram, Sungur, Hüsnü ∗∗∗

► (090) ◄ To the Public Health Committee

To the Public Health Committee

As is written at the beginning of A Guide for Youth, fifteen years ago a few youths visited me so that they might learn how to preserve their lives in this world and the next. So, for God's sake, I gave them instruction in the lesson from the Guide.

The importance of A Guide for Youth and there being no legal impediments to its free publication are proven by the following facts: with the exception of one or footnotes, its being acquitted by both the Isparta authorities, and Denizli Court, and Ankara Criminal Court, and the Appeal Court after having remained with it for two years, and the entire Risale-i Nur Collection, including the Guide, being returned to its owners; and as is written at the beginning of the Guide, with one copy of it coming into the hands of the Ankara police chief, although objections were raised about a single word, the truth of the matter being understood when the sentence at the end was read so no ruling was given preventing its free dissemination; and no harm being suffered anywhere nor objections raised although thousands of copies have been published; and in the town of Tarsus in Mersin Province, even, although several books from the Risale-i Nur were confiscated including A Guide for Youth and sent to Ankara for scrutiny, an official document being given on the orders of the governor's office saying the books were free; and when they were printed in Istanbul and in accordance with the law sent to five or six government departments where they remained for five or six months, no objections being raised to them.

Then more than a thousand youths in the schools in Ankara and other provinces profited from it in respect of country, nation, and morality, and no one at all suffered any harm. Yet suddenly, they misinterpreted one or two words that in no way could be deemed reprehensible, for instance, they laid charges concerning the title A Guide for Youth.