the four earthquakes in my defence written by Husrev, occurred at the same time as the police sergeant, who leans on a high official, bawled at my assistant in the government building and with humiliating abuse told him to go and get me, and compelled by the kaymakam, [^61] ordered the watchmen and gendarmes to bring me there even if ill, which was certainly a conspiracy against myself, the Risale-i Nur, and this country. This unprecedently severe earthquake coinciding with this assault on the Nur students' enthusiasm and the Risale-i Nur's being written here and causing me such distress, shows that the Risale-i Nur is a means of repulsing disasters, and if its service is interrupted, the calamities seize the opportunity and occur.

[^61]:Kaymakam: the leading administrative official of an ilçe, a subdivision of a province. [Tr.]

Mustafa Osman has performed many services for the Risale-i Nur in a short time, and his truly modest and self-abnegating letter proves his earnest loyalty and sincerity and shows he is on a par with the select students of fifteen years' standing. The Staff of Moses Collection he wrote is anyway clear proof of this. Even while writing this, the earth tremors have again begun. ∗∗∗

► (117) ◄ A Conversation with the Emirdağ Police

A Conversation with the Emirdağ Police

I have a question: What is the reason I have been treated in this extraordinary way because I sought my rights in the name of humanity?

Firstly: I did not present the complaint I wrote and have held it for a year. But now I have sent it to someone so that it may be passed to the Ankara authorities by way of the police. I said that the Afyon police chief is fair-minded and I sent him a copy by hand. But while awaiting a favourable result and improvement of my situation, he evidently wrote to the people who pressurize me here, saying: "This fine handwriting isn't his; investigate who wrote it!" But to disregard a serious and absolutely right complaint and evince curiosity about an unimportant, harmless note and disturb myself, is like disregarding a thousand liras and placing paramount importance on five para. Is that not so? What law demands that people who write out the hundred and thirty treatises of the Risale-i Nur be investigated, despite the fact that three courts have scrutinized every part of them and most of those who wrote them out were in court with me, and the