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This is a Note to the Second Station of the Thirteenth Word among the comparisons of the Risale-i Nur.

Prisoners are in great need of the true consolation found in the Risale-i Nur. Especially those who have suffered the brunt of youth and spent their young, sweet lives in prison need the Risale-i Nur as much as they need bread. Yes, the vein of youth listens to emotions rather than the mind... As for the emotions and the desires of nafs, they are blind; they do not see the consequences. And they prefer grams of present pleasure to kilos of future pleasure, murder for the pleasure of one minute of revenge and suffer eighty thousand hours of the torments from imprisonment. And driven by an hour of pleasure of the debauchery, a lifetime of happiness is ruined by countless days of anguish, plagued by the fears of imprisonment and the enemy due to an affair of honour. There are many pitfalls, such as these, for the unfortunate young; they transform their sweetest lives into the most bitter and pitiable ones, and especially in the north, a large state shakes this century with its storms by employing the desires of the youth. Because this state makes the beautiful daughters and wives of the honourable people permissible and accessible for young men who act with blind emotions that do not see the consequences. Indeed, by permitting men and women to be together in the public baths naked, it encourages this indecency. It makes the property of the rich halal for the vagrants and the poor; all humanity trembles before this calamity.

Therefore, in this century, it is necessary for Muslim and Turkish youth to act heroically and confront this danger attacking them from two sides with sharp swords, such as The Fruit and The Youth Guide from the Risale-i Nur. Otherwise, that wretched young man will transform his worldly future, his happy life, his eternal bliss in âkhirah and his eternal life into torments and excruciating pains and destroy them. And he will end up in hospitals due to misuse and dissipation (safahat), and in prisons due to the excesses of his feelings. In his old age, he will cry a lot with regrets and sorrows. When he protects himself with the tarbiyyah of the Quran and the haqiqahs of the Risale-i Nur, he will be a perfect, heroic young man, a perfect human being, a happy Muslim and a kind of sultân over other living beings and animals.