to protect the Risale-i Nur is a genuine duty of the Religious Affairs Directorate. For like the Office of the Şeyhülislam, the Directorate is the religious instructor not only of Turkey but of all the Islamic world, with which it has relations and connections. It is essential at the present time especially, that the world of Islam looks completely favourably on it and does not entertain doubts about it. Furthermore, the Risale-i Nur has been met favourably everywhere in the Islamic world and even in Europe and effectively disallows the Islamic governments which are not allied with Turkey looking negatively on the Directorate, and thus defends the Directorate's honour. It is therefore imperative that the Directorate publishes the Risale-i Nur as one of its own works. The experts' committee should give due consideration to this point. For these reasons, the members and hojas of the Directorate should be concerning themselves with the Risale-i Nur a hundred times more than wretched Said Nursi and Nur students, so that it may be protected and preserved in the face of the assaults of the irreligious. The intriguers should be silenced who are preventing its publication despite its numerous acquittals.

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In His Name, be He glorified!

Peace be upon you, and God's mercy and blessings!

In Ankara, on the pretext of The Staff of Moses and A Guide for Youth, they came to take all the Risale-i Nur off one of our brothers. He showed them the Criminal Court's acquittal of The Staff of Moses, so they did not take it. Without being aware of it, they put some books on top of the ten copies of A Guide for Youth which they had found and placed before their eyes. When they were set to go, they searched everywhere for the Guide, but could not find it. In this way, the Guide protected itself as an instance of its own wonder-working. The copies they took of one each of the treatises and collections other than the Guide and The Staff of Moses were subsequently returned by the police.

The Enduring One, He is the Enduring One!

S a i d   N u r s i ∗∗∗