unwillingly - everyone will not become kafirs."
It was for this reason, because this was so plain, that Bediuzzaman had suppressed the treatise and not permitted it to be circulated. It was only after the entire Risale-i Nur, including the Fifth Ray, had been declared legally innocuous by the previous Committee of Experts and Denizli Court that he had allowed it to be duplicated.
Now, the present `committee of experts' levelled criticism at the Fifth Ray which Bediuzzaman described as "unfair, mistaken, and unjustifiable.” These centred on the nature of the Hadiths, which they said were either "unsound" or "weak", and on his interpretation of them. In his "Thank-you Letter", Bediuzzaman answered these criticisms with little difficulty. Besides this, Bediuzzaman also described these criticisms as resulting from jealousy and "a vein of Vahhabism", which points to the reasons for their second point of objection, which was equally mistaken. They criticized the eulogies written to Bediuzzaman and the Risale-i Nur by some of his students.
So Bediuzzaman pointed out it was a long-standing custom among scholars and literary people to write such eulogies about one another's work, and for these to be included at the ends of the works when they first appeared. If such eulogies had been directed towards himself, Bediuzzaman had changed them to refer to the Risale-i Nur. In any event time was proving what was written about the Risale-i Nur to be true. And even if what they wrote had been excessively exaggerated or even wrong, it would still only have been a scholarly error, and everyone was entitled to his own opinion. Bediuzzaman went on to gently put three questions to the `experts' from the Directorate of Religious Affairs, suggesting that they were busying themselves with trifles while religion and the Qur'an were suffering the fearsome attacks of that time, or even assisting them .
Nevertheless, despite the unfair criticisms in this report and their consequences. Bediuzzaman maintained a positive attitude