country and nation. Such services resemble acceptable almsgiving and are a means of repulsing disasters, and their being obscured in this way has resulted in the calamity finding a way and occurring. If, following the decisions of the five courts and Istanbul for the acquittals, A Guide for Youth had been published, the Muslim youths would have taken lessons from it and would certainly not allowed the corruption of the revolutionaries or others, and would have displayed every effort to save the nation from these huge losses, They would not have permitted the blot of this loss.

Yes, indeed, our Master understood while a prisoner-of-war in Russia during the Great War that the dangers threatening the youth with moral and spiritual corruption would be visited on our country. He was alarmed and since that time has written numerous works like A Guide for Youth to shield them from it. He has published numerous lessons from the All-Wise Qur'an, which, all thanks be to God, have been instrumental in saving very many young people. Since the politicians are now seeking general reconciliation and national unity, they should permit the publication of the treatise printed in the magazine as-Siddiq, to which Pakistan has attached so much importance. ∗∗∗

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In His Name, be He glorified!

According to an inner meaning of the verse, "No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another" (Q 6:164 etc.), no one is answerable for another's error, even the perpetrator's brother. So is there any law in the world that could lay charges against one hundred and thirty books with their hundred thousand pages on account of one page of a hundred-page treatise, even if in the view of the obdurately unfair it contained an error? In any event, five courts of law have acquitted the same books over the past thirty years. Also, twenty courts were involved with them due to the Malatya Incident. Those twenty courts said they could find nothing reprehensible in them. Also, no one has been in any way harmed by the six hundred thousand copies that have been disseminated both in this country and abroad, and even Christians have read them in the place they call the Nur Study Centre inside one of Europe's leading schools, and they have been regarded highly in the Islamic world and have spread there, and a treatise from the Risale-i Nur printed in the Pakistani magazine as-Siddīq was even sent to the Directorate of Religious Affairs, and although it has been published so widely no religious scholar has objected to it. All this shows that