their spiritual journeyings like the journeyings of spirit beings, and their drawing close to those holy prophets and profiting from them.

Evil spirits and Satan cannot assume the form of prophets in true dreams. But when spirits are called up, evil spirits may say that they are prophets and may speak in a way that is contrary to the Prophet's (UWBP) Sunna and the Shari'a's injunctions. If what they say is contrary to them, it is clear evidence that the ones speaking are not good spirits. They are not believing and Muslim jinns; they are evil spirits, and imitate them in this

Secondly: The Nur students are not now in need of instruction in such matters. The Risale-i Nur explains the truth about everything and leaves no need for other expositions. The Risale-i Nur is enough for them. It is, however, imperative that people other than the Nur students do not heed the suggestions in those communications that are contrary to the Shari'a and Prophet's (UWBP) Sunna. For to do so may lead to serious errors.

A Warning: The fierce warnings in this letter against communicating with spirits, are against an approach that purports to be spiritual, and has appeared from the West, and from philosophy, spiritualism, and mesmerism. The criticism is not of the Sufism of a very few Sufis which proceeds from Islam and tasawwuf and other followers of the Sufi path, and resembles somewhat the communication with spirits, and has been exploited to some extent with the interference of the outsiders. It is true that they can harm others in some ways, but they do not deceive like the others and they harbour no intentions of harming Islam. As for that approach of foreign provenance, it is opposed to both Islam and the Sufi paths, and it attempts to obstruct the way of the Sufis mentioned here, and devalue it, Those Sufis who are weak and do not adhere to the Sunna should be careful not to allow themselves to resemble them.

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