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In His Name, be He glorified!

Having received a summons from Samsun, I am presenting my brief reply to its panel of judges:

First: I did not send the article. All my friends here know that.

Second: By reason of my severe illness due to being poisoned, which was an assassination attempt by my covert enemies, I have been able to attend only once the mosque next to me here. I therefore tender the legal request to have the trial transferred from Samsun Court to Eskişehir, which is near here. ∗∗∗

► (106) ◄ An Event of the Greatest Importance, a Petition, and a Complaint

An Event of the Greatest Importance,

a Petition, and a Complaint

We have been given a magazine called "as-Siddīq," which is published in Pakistan. We saw that nearly half of the fifty-page magazine consisted of articles from the Risale-i Nur. On the front page and given pride of place was the First Topic of the Twenty-Second Letter, written as an invitation to the verse: "Indeed, the believers are brothers!" (Q 49:10) and to Islam. The Turkish original of the treatise, which the Arabic magazine translated, was presented a year ago to the public, and especially to the leaders of this Islamic government and its deputies. There are three or four reasons for again presenting it for their information:

The First: It is now established through the hundreds of certain signs and evidences in The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen Collection from the Risale-i Nur which have been affirmed by numerous events, that by performing fully the function of a Qur'anic barrier against the moral and spiritual devastation of anarchy, communism, naturalism, and materialism, and doubts, suspicions, and absolute disbelief, the Risale-i Nur is a means of preserving this country within the perilous storms that shake the world, like acceptable almsgiving. It has become abundantly clear that it forms an immaterial shield against the calamity of the Second World War, preventing the disasters that are occurring in other countries from entering this country. The most obdurate scientistic philosophers, even, who have studied the Risale-i Nur have had to affirm this fact. With its five hundred thousand students and the six hundred thousand copies of its treatises and with its instruction in belief its placing a prohibitor in everyone's hearts