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My Dear, Loyal, Steadfast, Unshakeable, Constant, Unselfish, Faithful Brothers !
You know that the Ankara committee of experts could not deny the wondrous signs from the Unseen alluding to the Risale-i Nur; they only wrongly objected to them because they supposed I had a part in them and said that such things should not be written in books since instances of wonder-working (kerâmet) should not be advertised. In my defence speech I replied to this slight criticism as follows:
Those instances of wonder-working are not mine and it would be presumptuous of me to claim them. They are rather traces and flashes of the miraculousness of the Qur'an's meanings (mu'cize-i mâneviye) which take the form of wonders in the Risale-i Nur, which is a true commentary on it; they are a sort of divine bestowal in order to strengthen the morale of its students. To make known divine bestowals is a form of thanks and is permissible. It is also acceptable. Now, for an important reason I am going to elucidate this reply to a degree, It has also been asked why I do make them known and why I have attached so much importance to this question and why I have mentioned it so frequently these last few months, for most of my letters are concerned with those charismata.
The Answer: Although, faced with thousands of wreckers at this time, hundreds of thousands of repairers are necessary to assist in the work the Risale-i Nur carries out for the cause of belief; and although I have need of at least a hundred scribes and assistants; and although the people and the authorities should appreciate and encourage us rather than avoiding us, and get in touch with us and help us; and although it is obligatory for the believers to give preference to serving belief, since it looks to eternal life, over their preoccupation with transitory worldly life and its benefits; taking myself as an example, I say this:
In addition to hindering me in everything and preventing me from even having contact with people and my assistants, our opponents try with all their strength to break my friends' morale and to make them look coldly on me and on the Risale-i Nur, and load the work of a thousand people on an elderly, ill, weak, and lonely person like myself who is a stranger and compel him to refrain from having contact with them, which in these oppressive and isolated circumstances is like a physical illness; and they scare people off so effectively in this way that some of my closest friends even are frightened to greet me, and so scared even as to give up performing the prayers. They try to break their morale in this way. So faced with such obstacles, outside my own will, some instances of divine bestowal that