i Nur, had been passed from hand to hand among the ordinary people, had been copied out by hand, and by degrees, had spread till by 1945 he and the Risale-i Nur had many thousands of followers all over Turkey.

Now, in 1945, in consequence of the path that had been taken, Bediuzzaman saw that the Turkish nation was in great danger: having been broken off from its natural support of the Islamic world in addition to being divorced and alienated from its own true identity of Islam, it would be unable to withstand and counter what he saw as the devious plans of the forces of unbelief, which step by step were being put into practice and would finally destroy it. The Turkish nation could only withstand these designs on it through the strength of the Qur'an. It was at this point therefore that Bediuzzaman took on a role that could be interpreted as "offensive", by attempting to publish the Risale-i Nur in the new alphabet and on a large scale.

At the same time Bediuzzaman was not working against the government and established order. On the contrary, it was stability and social order that he was aiming to preserve in the face of the two outside currents or "calamities" mentioned above and those working for them within the country that were seeking to destroy public order, destabilize the country and create anarchy. And he wrote a number of open letters and petitions to various members of the government and government departments in order to alert them to the dangers.

One such letter was to Hilmi Uran, Interior Minister until October 1946 then General Secretary of the Republican People's Party. In it Bediuzzaman described the two currents, pointing out the inseparable nature of Islam and the Turkish nation and the grave error in trying to replace Islam by "civilization", that is, uprooting religion and imposing philosophy in the form of posivitism and nationalism. One of these currents was composed of the forces seeking to split up and divide the Islamic world. Through what Bediuzzaman describes as "atheistic committees" (zındıka komitesi), "secret organizations", and "the forces of corruption", it was seeking to establish "absolute unbelief" in order to create enmity towards the Turkish nation, "the heroic brother and commander of the Islamic world", and for relations to be cut between them. Bediuzzaman told Hilmi Uran that "if in place of the propaganda of civilization to the detriment of religion, you do not work to spread directly the truths of belief and the Qur'an", the Turkish nation would fall prey to the anarchy underlying that absolute unbelief; it would fall apart and disintegrate, and would be "overwhelmed by the fear- some monster that has emerged in the North."

Communism, the other current, formed a real threat at that time. Having