In connection with this, in the face of the growing threat of communism described in the following section, with his extraordinarily clear-sighted view of the future, in accordance with certain Hadith, Bediuzzaman advocated co-operation between truly religious Christians against this threat. He wrote: "In connection with Selahaddin giving the American The Staff of Moses, we say this:
"It is essential that missionaries and Christian clergy as well as Nurcus are extremely careful, for certainly, with the idea of defending itself against the attacks of the religions of Islam and Christianity, the current from the North will try to destroy the accord of Islam and the missionaries..."1•is

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The writing of the Risale-i Nur, then, was virtually complete within a few months of Bediuzzaman's coming to Emirdag, and a large part of his time here was spent in correcting the copies sent to him of the Risale-i Nur, both handwritten and duplicated - this work even sometimes taking part of the time he set apart each day for worship and contemplation. In many of his letters directing his students' activities, together with encouraging them and insisting on the eontinued importance of the handwritten copies, he urged them to pay attention to writing out the pieces accurately, so as to assist him in this laborious and time-consuming task. So too he constantly urged caution on them, and to act circumspectly, aware that their enemies were always seeking ways of halting their work.
Bediuzzaman's three and a years in Emirdag were truly tortuous for him. This is also clear from his letters. So also the people of Emirdag and his students testified to the entirely unlawful and