maintaining a livelihood? Voluntary actions arising from illicit desires and unlawful dealings cannot make what is unlawful lawful. Since things like the cinema, theatre, and dancing are not essential and addiction to them results from a voluntary wrong action, if a person becomes addicted to them, it cannot be a reason for making the illicit licit. Laws whose source is human have also taken this point into consideration, for they differentiate between definite necessity outside the will and matters arising from voluntary unlawful acts. Divine laws differentiate in firmer and more fundamental fashion between these basic matters."

Nevertheless, do not attack those hojas who support innovations, supposing that they are made essential by the times. Do not strike at those unfortunates, who unknowingly act on the supposition of "there being necessity." For this reason we do not employ our force internally. We do not interfere with the unfortunates who oppose us saying "such-and-such has become essential," even if they are hojas. I previously held out on my own against so many opponents, not wearying even a jot, and was successful in serving belief. Although there are now millions of Risale-i Nur students, I still endure all their insults and persecution through acting positively.

We do not consider the world. If we do consider it, we try to assist those involved in it. We assist in positive fashion the preservation of public order and security. Because of facts like these, we have to tolerate it, even if they persecute us.

The Risale-i Nur's spreading everywhere has given rise to the firm conviction that the Democrats support religion. To hamper a single treatise now is directly contrary to the benefits of the country and nation.

A small example of the rule "Necessity arising from a voluntary unlawful action does not make what is unlawful lawful:" there was a confidential treatise the publication of which I prevented. I said that it could be published after my death. Later the courts seized it and studied it; then they acquitted it. The Court of Appeal upheld the acquittal. And in order to pre- serve public order internally and so that no harm should come to the ninety-nine innocents out of a hundred people, I gave permission to the publishers, saying: "Said may publish it on consulting with others."

Third Matter: Absolute disbelief is now trying to spread such a hell that no disbeliever in the universe should approach it. An inner meaning of the Qur'an being a "Mercy to all the worlds" is this, that just as it is mercy for Muslims, so, by offering the possibility of belief in the hereafter and belief in God, it is a subtle sign of its being a mercy to all unbelievers and all the world and mankind. For it saves them to an extent from that immaterial