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Collection, The Twenty-sixth Flash, Fifteenth Hope)
Bediuzzaman relates that the Muslims around him who
were subjected to the same slanders and cruelties never lost
their cheerfulness and never despaired:
With all their stratagems, the dissemblers’ attacks these
last ten months and their getting hold of an official has
not shaken even the youngest student. Their slanders are
insignificant. . . Such slanders from such people have vir-
tually no effect on us, and, Allah willing, they will cause
no harm to the Risale-i Nur circle. (Bediuzzaman Said
Nursi, Risale-i Nur Collection, Letters, Fourteenth Ray)
All Muslims should learn from how Bediuzzaman and his
followers responded to the conspiracies against them. Allah
reminds Muslims, in the person of the Prophet (saas), how
Muslims should respond in such circumstances:
Be patient. But your patience is only by Allah. Do not be
grieved by them, and do not be constricted by the plots
they hatch. Allah is with those who fear Him, and with
those who are good-doers. (Surat an-Nahl, 127-128)