malicious bias unacceptable by justice. It is therefore essential that both our lawyers and you do everything in your power to have our trial transferred to a court in another province.

S a i d N u r s i

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In His Name, be He glorified!

My Dear, Loyal, Sincere, Steadfast, Devoted Brothers!

Firstly: The reason I don’t keep a copy of ‘The Mystery of To you have We granted’91 with me is that long ago there was some confusion in two premonitions I had.

The First: I perceived through a premonition a terrible event that would occur in this country alone, and the rise of tyrants. The mighty mystery became apparent twelve years later as I had foretold, but in the large sphere, on the face of the earth. For sure it apparently altered what I had predicted, but in reality it turned out to be completely correct and the pure truth. For this reason, I do not keep that treatise with me and I do not give it to others.

Secondly: Forty years ago I used repeatedly to say: “I see a light.” I used to give good tidings of it. I supposed the light to be on a country-wide scale. However, it was the Risale-i Nur; I reckoned the circle of the Risale-i Nur students to be the political sphere of the whole country, and I was in error.

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Sir!

I thank you for having the flag of the Independence Holiday hung on my ward. During the national struggle in Istanbul, Ankara knew that I had performed the service of maybe a military division through publishing and distributing my work entitled The Six Steps against the British and Greeks, for twice Mustafa Kemal notified me in cypher wanting me to go to Ankara. He even said: “We have to have this heroic hoja here!” That is to say, it is my right to hang this flag this holiday.

S a i d N u r s i

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