Europe and the cash in hand has been spent on duplicating copies, their being sufficient in extraordinary manner both for the Risale-i Nur itself and its dedicated devotees is a fine fruit of that prediction in the former era, and one purpose of it. Since this is so, I am making this declaration to be put at the end of my will:

Let this last will and testament be put among the money that remains when I die so that certain unjust persons should not say: "Said lived on five or ten kuruş a day and never took money from anyone, so how is it that he is leaving a legacy of hundreds of liras? Where does it come from?" To do this will be appropriate.

I now enjoin that this rule of mine be preserved under the supervision of my spiritual sons and devoted assistants like Zübeyir, Ceylân, Sungur, Bayram, Hüsnü, Abdullah, and Mustafa, and the select, sincere heroes of the Risale-i Nur like Husrev, Nazif, Tahirî, and Mustafa Gül.

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[We are sending this for your information, to refute the libellous statements that have appeared in some newspapers.]

We have seen that a number of opposition newspapers are again accusing the Risale-i Nur students of founding a Sufi order. This accusation does not contain even a grain of truth as has been established by the ratified decisions of the nearly ten criminal courts that have tried cases involving the Risale-i Nur. Also, not the slightest sign of Sufism has been found in the books and letters of the Risale-i Nur when they have previously been seized and then unconditionally returned to their owners. In fact, it states explicitly in our Master Said Nursi's letters and defence speeches that "the present is not the time of the Sufi orders, but the time to save belief. There are many who enter Paradise without Sufism, but none who enter it without belief." Despite this open and explicit statement and the fact that not a shred of evidence has been found concerning Sufi practices, a clandestine group which is religiously lax or anti-religious, and wanting to extirpate religion is unable to abide the present flowering of Islam, calls true Islam "Sufism" in its attempts to prepare the ground in this country to sow its own ideas. Certainly, as always happens, the present campaign, instigated by the covert atheists and their intrigues, will finally be to the advantage of