and country from anarchy and the corruption of foreigners; and as has been testified to by seventy witnesses in court, has not read a newspaper for twenty-five years nor been curious about the news; has taken no interest in the Second World War, nor has asked about it nor known about it; and as is proved in his works has completely cut all his ties with politics, and as has been admitted officially by your judiciary, has not interfered in your world? How does it benefit you to set foremost yourself, the Interior Minister, and the governor of Afyon and the Emirdağ police on this wretched Said, who flees desperately from public regard lest harm should come to his life in the hereafter and his sincerity, and dislikes and shrinks from his brothers' good opinions about him and their praise; what profit is there in making him suffer in one day the torments of a month's solitary confinement, compelling him to remain all alone and solitary in anguish? I ask, What law permits this ghastly cruelty? and I declare the above to the Interior Minister by way of the Ministry of Justice, which protects the rights of the public.

S a i d   N u r s i,

who is unjustly deprived of all civil and human rights

and the right to live ∗∗∗

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My Dear, Loyal Brothers and Osman, Mehmed, and Hasan Efendis, who are as true to me in my exile as kith and kin!

In connection with the extraordinary concern of Hasan Feyzi and the other students for the Çalışkan family, which is immediate recompense for your unforgetable and earnest services for myself and the Risale-i Nur, and their broadcasting your good name throughout the country and causing the people of reality to look on you as friends, you are obliged in my place to be extremely circumspect and completely loyal and most careful in order to protect and defend the Risale-i Nur and its students more than myself and to save them from the intrigues of the politicians and the enemies who poisoned me. For even the smallest mistake will discredit not only myself, but also thousands of innocent students and your own good name, which is now shining. My situation and the difficulties inflicted on me are illegal in six respects, so in order to absolve themselves from future responsibility, those who torment me unjustly and illegally, are searching for a pretext for themselves and an excuse. So you have to be extremely careful, ∗∗∗