Whereas if a master has ten devoted students, then one of them greets someone and receives a blow in return and another kisses someone's hand and is then treated with contempt, they all remain silent so as not to create a disturbance. For they had heard from Said: "If I had a thousand lives, I would sacrifice them all to maintain public order and security." Therefore, in accordance with the fundamental law, "No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another" (Q 6:164 etc.), so that no harm should come to ninety innocents due to five criminals and in order not to treat unjustly ten innocent children and parents because of one criminal, the Risale-i Nur ensures public order with the services it performs for the cause of belief and lodges a prohibitor in everyone's hearts against wrongdoing. The biography proves that if I had a thousand lives, I would sacrifice all of them for this fundamental law of the Qur'an, and it is there for all to see. And courts of law have also concurred with this.

He even looks on public demonstration of oneself as hypocrisy, self- advertisement, and egotism, and so has given up meeting with the people, and through the grace of divine mercy he has lost his voice too so that he is not obliged to meet with his friends and they are not offended.

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In His Name, be He glorified!

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

A letter arrived for our extremely ill Master from a high-ranking official. It says that some leading members of the former party (Republican People's Party) who did not want his biography to be published, made some large concessions and drove some of its officials to make the mistake. So our Master said:

The main parts of the biography have been published three times by Sebilurreşad, and four times over the past thirty to forty years in both the old letters and the new. And recently, one or two religious scholars have sent several appreciative letters from abroad, from such places as Medina, by way of elucidation and thanks. In which case, the courts can in no way interfere officially.

Secondly: The Risale-i Nur has on its own spread in the Islamic world in wondrous fashion despite all the politicians' harassment, so now that there are millions of people disseminating it, let alone the former party, if