While correcting the paradaisical prison Fruits of those happy heroes recently, the treatise seemed to me to be so powerful and valuable that I shouted out: "If the distress we suffered in prison had been a hundred times greater, the benefits produced by The Fruits of Belief have been a hundred times more numerous. The most obdurate people have come to believe through it, and it has caused itself to be read in the widest circles.

I exclaimed: "You unfortunates who torment me! You do what you like, it doesn't bother me. Whatever we suffered was insignificant; it was pure divine favour and mercy!" and was consoled.

We send greetings to all the Risale-i Nur students and pray for their well-being.

S a i d   N u r s i ∗∗∗

► (012) ◄ This Petition was Sent to Three Departments of Government A Source of Reference for my Brothers There

This Petition was Sent to Three Departments of Government

A Source of Reference for my Brothers There

[I want you to listen to the complaints of someone who for twenty years has suffered patiently in silence.]

The Republican government allows the widest possible freedom, yet I am deprived of every liberty and my enemies freely persecute me in every way. Since the government guarantees freedom of conscience and freedom of thought and scholarship, it should either offer me full protection and silence my ill-intentioned, suspicious enemies, or allow me the freedom to write like my enemies and not forbid my defence, For secret official orders have evidently been given to the post offices to obstruct all my correspondence, And now, just when no one other than the single child who brings me bread and water is permitted to meet with me and I was awaiting our acquittal by the Court of Appeal and expecting the return of my books which the experts' committee appointed by the court had applauded, my opponents of many years have seized the opportunity and passed one or two of my confidential treatises that are nothing to do with me to one or two members of the [new] experts' committee who due to their profession are opposed to me and have now drawn up a derogatory report against me. My patience and endurance are exhausted, So I proclaim to the members of the Republican government, and to the whole world even:

By virtue of the mystery of the All-Wise Qur'an's truth and of its mirac-