the whole world were to gather together, it could do nothing to stop it. It is quite impossible. It would be more like an advertisement; the Nur students need not worry.

Thirdly: On the one hand I have forgiven the former party all its unjust persecution of me. On the other, in accordance with the verse, "No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another" (Q 6:164 etc.), that is, no person, or his party or relatives, is answerable for another's errors, the Risale-i Nur has spread both in Anatolia and in the eastern provinces and has performed effective services for public order and security. Like a non-physical, moral police force, it leaves a prohibitor in everyone's heart. It has not blamed the errors of five men on ninety-five, so has not aggravated them twenty or thirty times. Most of the former party's followers should therefore be as grateful to the Risale-i Nur as the party in power. For if it had not taught that lesson from the above fundamental Qur'anic principle, the errors of the five men would have been attributed to thousands.

Fourthly: It is now quite certain that the Risale-i Nur is a lesson proceeding from the All-Wise Qur'an's miraculousness that will protect this nation and the world of Islam against the absolute disbelief that assaults from outside, for no atheistic philosopher has found any means of opposing it. We have received certain news that in some places abroad, a million youths are saying that general peace may be secured by the Risale-i Nur. We have heard too that they have started to translate the Risale-i Nur in some countries that are seeking universal peace, such as Germany and America.

Fifthly: If officials misinterpret some of the new laws and object to one or two lines from the Risale-i Nur, say in my place: "Should twenty thousand neighbours be punished and cast into prison because of one man's fault? Is there any law in the world that demands it?" So if one line of a five-hundred-page book with twenty lines on every page deals someone a hard blow, but there is no specific name and nothing prosecutable; and even supposing there was, the line would be deleted as with the censor. So to seize the book is illegal and an injustice unheard of in the world, like sending ten thousand people to prison. Moreover, seeing that the other twenty thousand lines have strengthened the belief of twenty thousand people, it surely absolves the error and causes it to be forgiven.

I would have spoken more if I had not been so extremely ill. You, my assistants, must correct and emend it. Even, if you deem it appropriate, while more than anyone the police should be in favour of the Risale-i Nur's lessons, which strengthen them considerably in their duties of securing the peace, my spirit is not easy at giving them to those policemen who