Again and again I say to you, “I am afraid you will forego your faith this time.” I say this because I feel sorry that you, who had an aspiration for the Lotus Sūtra until quite recently, will instead fall into the evil realms. If by chance, be it one out of one hundred or even one out of one thousand, you wish to follow the faith preached by me, Nichiren, declare to your father, “Although by right I should follow you because you are my father, if you become an enemy of the Lotus Sūtra, I will abandon you and side with my elder brother, because following you would make me an unfilial son. If you are abandoned by my elder brother, please consider that you and my elder brother will go to the same hell.” You have nothing to fear. The reason why we have faith in the Lotus Sūtra ever since the eternal past without attaining Buddhahood is this (retreat in faith).

Hyōesakan-dono Gohenji, Answer to Lord Ikegami Munenaga, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Volume 6, Followers I, Page 93