The Third: In their investigations of two years two courts could find nothing legally reprehensible in any part of the Risale-i Nur, [^77] but on their acquitting us and the Risale-i Nur, the secret atheistic society made use of certain dissembling officials, and hatching an official plan in the centre of government, isolated me from all my friends and students completely illegally, and calling it exile, sent me to the place most detrimental to my health, to a life of solitary confinement in Emirdağ. It has now emerged that they did this for two reasons:
[^77]:Either no law, not even their arbitrary laws, can in any way interfere with us and the Risale-i Nur; or, although some of their new laws could do so, because that lofty judiciary and three courts shrink from the fierce hatred and execration of the future, they have not found the courage to declare the Risale-i Nur and ourselves guilty and have unanimously given the decision for the acquittal of all of us and the return of all the Risale-i Nur. They can seek refuge behind those laws! If cruel nonentities who hold temporary posts commit such atrocities although the vastly powerful judiciary shrank from it, it will surely bring the heavens and earth to anger, leaving no need for mine! [Author]
The First: I have never ever accepted insults. So they wanted to infuriate me by humiliating me and to incite an incident and pave the way to finish me off. Then because they didn't manage that, they tried to put an end to me by poisoning me. But through divine providence, the panacea-like prayers of the Nur students and the remedial properties of patience and endurance foiled that plan of theirs and drove off the dangers of the poison, both physical and spiritual. Certainly at no time in history has any government perpetrated such torments and oppression in the name of law and order. Indeed their constant surveillance vexed me and their scaring everyone away from me made me angry, but it suddenly occurred to my heart that I should pity these tyrants, not be angry at them, as follows: Soon each one of them will be subject to everlasting agony in place of the temporary sufferings they have inflicted on you and to hellish torments, physical and mental, a thousandfold greater. Revenge will be taken on them a thousand times more severely. And some of them, if they have any sense, will suffer the anguish of guilty consciences and fear of eternal death so long as they remain in this world till they meet their end. So I ceased feeling angry at them and pitied them, saying: May God reform them!
Moreover, I was earning great reward from their torments and ill-treatment, and since they were busying themselves with and tyrannizing me instead of the Nur students, it was of great benefit for the Nurjus and served their well-being and I therefore offered thanks to Almighty God and felt joy within all the distress I was suffering.
The Fourth: Concerning the matter in your letter about my living condi-