internal jihad against it had to be of the same nature; it was to work for the spread and strengthening of belief with sincerity and "not to interfere in God's business" that is, not to be precipitate and expect immediate results; leave the results to Almighty God. [^8]

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#### Emirdağ

Emirdağ

On being released from Afyon Prison in the early morning of 20 September, 1949, Bediuzzaman was escorted by two police officers to a house in the town which had been rented by some of his students, released earlier than himself. Among these were Hüsrev and Zübeyir Gündüzalp. Again under close surveillance, with two or three policemen permanently posted at the house who took down the names of all visitors, Bediuzzaman remained here around two months before moving back to his former house in Emirdağ. [^9]

[^9]:Tarihçe, 537-8; Hilmi Pancaroğlu, in Son Şahitler, iii, 169.

Back in Emirdağ among his many students, Bediuzzaman took up where he had left off two years earlier when he had been arrested and sent to Afyon. In one of his first letters to his students in Isparta, he asks for one of them to go to Ankara to the Directorate of Religious Affairs to inform the Director, Ahmed Hamdi Akseki, that despite illness from poisoning, he was struggling to correct the entire set of the Risale-i Nur they had requested two years earlier and would present it when completed. In return he requested the Director to do all he could for the Risale-i Nur's free circulation, and also to print photographically the "miraculous" Qur'an Hüsrev had written showing the coincidings in the word Allah, and other Divine Names. [^10] Thus, Bediuzzaman overlooked the harm caused to himself and the Risale-i Nur by the negative report of the Committee of Experts set up by the Directorate for Afyon Court, and the first thing he did on being released was to renew his efforts to persuade them — and through them the muftis and hojas — of the extreme value of the Risale-i Nur as a commentary on the Qur'an, to use their influence to get the legal restrictions lifted, and even to publish it officially themselves. Although Ahmed Hamdi agreed in principle to publish the Risale-i Nur, this never came to fruition. In 1956 after the Risale-i Nur had been cleared by Afyon Court, the new Director, Eyüp Sabri Hayırlıoğlu, was again approached on the subject, this time on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, Menderes, but the attempt again came to nothing. [^11]

[^10]:Nursi, Emirdağ Lahikası, ii, 6-7.

[^11]:Şahiner, Said Nursi, 414-5; Tahsin Tola, in Son Şahitler, i, 158.