Fourth Point: Since at the present time due to trickery, exploitation, and bribery, numerous illicit matters have become admixed in possessions and sustenance, and farmers cannot really lay claim to their own produce, and out of ten people only two or three truly deserve divine mercy, and out of those who profit from the farmer's produce, five or six lose their right to divine mercy due to wrongdoing and mixing in illicit things, or neglecting to offer thanks.

Fifth Point: The Risale-i Nur is a significant means of warding off calamities from this land of Anatolia. Just as almsgiving repulses calamities, so it has become clear through numerous signs and indications that its spreading and being read repulses heavenly and worldly disasters as a sort of universal almsgiving. This is a truth indicated by the Qur'an, Four times earthquakes occurred when its being written out and spread were being prevented, and when it was published again, they ceased. Then when it was being read almost throughout Anatolia, as indicated by Sura Wa'l-'Aṣr (Q 103), it was a means of the Second World War not reaching Anatolia. Then during this two-month drought when we were awaiting the totally free spread of the Risale-i Nur in confirmation of the Appeal Court's decision for its acquittal since it was beneficial for the country, it was blocked entirely contrarily to our expectations and the treatises held by the court were not returned to their owners. As a consequence, this universal nonmaterial almsgiving which is a means of repulsing calamities was not realized and the drought began as a result of our sins.

Sixth Point: Drought is a calamity and the punishment for actions, and should be met with grief and sorrowful beseeching and supplication, and earnest repentance and prayers for forgiveness, and seeking refuge at the divine court within the bounds of the Sunna while shunning innovations, in the way specified by the Shari'a, and with the prayers and worship particular to the situation.

Also, since general calamities such as this result from the errors of the majority of people, they are repulsed by the majority of them repenting and seeking forgiveness.

We Risale-i Nur students do not attach much importance to this world and only look to the world for the sake of the Risale-i Nur, and therefore regard the present drought from this point of view, Thus, at the same time that a small part of the Risale-i Nur was returned to its owners in accordance with the decision given in Denizli Court, and here too a small number of people started writing out pieces from it, a small amount of rain fell. But because the freedom given the Risale-i Nur was partial, the divine