Risale-i Nur from that seed, and bestowed it. All the sections in the Letters of the Risale-i Nur describing the reasons for praise pertain to that illuminating tree. My share in it could in no way be pride; it could be thanks and thanks alone. So, All thanks be to God! All praise be to God to the number of beings in existence!
The Enduring One, He is the Enduring One!
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In His Name, be He glorified!
Peace be upon you and God's mercy and blessings, for ever and ever!
My Dear, Loyal Brothers !
Firstly: Owing to numerous signs and a number of incidents it is now certain that the enemies of the Risale-i Nur and of the Nur students have devised numerous plans in order to induce the some of the select students to give up their service of the Risale-i Nur or to weaken their resolve by discovering some of their weak veins of character, We shall describe one or two of them as a warning lesson.
First Example: So as to turn the attention and thought of a few of our select brothers who are unshakeably attached to the Risale-i Nur in another direction, or to occupy them with a pleasurable, spiritual way and impair their devotion to their duties in serving belief, some people are preoccupying these brothers with phenomena like communicating with the dead and with jinns, which is known as spiritualism, and even conversing with the great saints and even prophets, which formerly was the realm of the soothsayers (kâhin), who are now known as mediums.
This phenomenon proceeds from philosophy and from Europe, and can be extremely harmful to the believers. It is open to exploitation of many sorts, and if it contains one truth, this is mixed with ten falsehoods. For since there is no touchstone, no criterion, to differentiate between truth and falsehood, the jinns which assist evil spirits and Satan may possibly cause harm both to the hearts of those who busy themselves with it, and to Islam. For there are disclosures which they call spiritual matters but which are contrary to the truths of Islam and general beliefs. Evil spirits present themselves as good spirits or even as great saints and may attempt to cause harm to the basic principles of Islam by saying things opposed to them. They may twist the truth and deceive ingenuous people completely.