want to employ depraved profligates and apostacizing communists against the religiously-minded people; they are even trying to interfere here.86

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My Dear, Loyal, and Unshakeable Brothers!

I congratulate you with all my heart at your quickly healing that wound of ours. I felt completely easy last night as a result. In fact, the Medresetü’z-Zehrais expanding, and the true sincerity, self-sacrifice and abandoning of egotism, and complete humility of the Risale-i Nur circle are being adopted and are spreading. Certainly, very petty and temporary sensitivity, irritability, and petulance cannot spoil its powerful teachings and the bonds of brotherhood. The Treatise On Sincerity is the best advice on this point. Their worst strategy now in striking at us and the Risale-i Nur and agitating us, is to make the Risale-i Nur students look coldly on each other by playing on differences in their ideas and temperaments, and to separate them from each other. For sure, it was only a minor tiff, but only a hair on the eye causes the pain of a stone, so that my flask gave news of it as though it was a major incident. The late Hafiz Ali (May God be pleased with him) complaining shortly before his death about a very minor such situation has come to mind perhaps a hundred times, and saddened me.

S a i d N u r s i

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

I gave the students’ written objections to the prison governor. I told him: “We want to send this, together with the end part of my