In His Name, be He glorified!

And there is nothing but it glorifies Him with praise.

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

My Dear, Loyal Brothers,

Now that the Risale-i Nur is being duplicated by machine and is spreading generally and many school children and teachers who study modern science and philosophy are holding fast to it there is a point that needs explanation:

The philosophy the Risale-i Nur strikes at fiercely and attacks is not absolute, but the harmful sort. For the philosophy and wisdom that serve the life of human society, and morality and human attainments, and industry and progress, are reconciled with the Qur'an. Indeed, such philosophy serves the Qur'an's wisdom and does not oppose it. This sort the Risale-i Nur does not bother with.

As for the other sort, since it both leads to misguidance, atheism, and the swamp of nature, and is the cause of vice and dissipation, heedlessness and misguidance; and since with its spellbinding wonders it opposes the Qur'an's miraculous truths; the Risale-i Nur attacks and deals slaps at it with the powerful proofs in the comparisons contained in most of its parts. It does not attack beneficial, rightly-guided philosophy. Members of the secular schools can therefore embrace the Risale-i Nur without hesitation or objection.

But completely meaninglessly and unjustly, secret dissemblers are turning a number of hojas against the Risale-i Nur, which is the true property of all the people of the medreses [religious schools], and they similarly excite the scholarly pride of certain philosophers. It is possible they will do this to harm the Risale-i Nur, so it is appropriate to include this piece at the beginning of the collections, The Staff of Moses and Zülfikar.

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