Secondly: I consider myself obliged to explain a matter to you as present General Secretary of the party. It is this:

O Turkish nation and brothers in religion who have been Turkified and have for a thousand years gratified the Islamic world with their heroism and are renowned for the pre-eminent role they have played in preserving Islamic unity and saving the world of humanity from absolute disbelief and misguidance! If, mistakenly and to the detriment of religion, you do not now defend the Qur'an and truths of belief as you did formerly, and if you and the patriots who resemble you do not strive to spread the truths of the Qur'an directly in place of the propaganda of present-day civilization, I can tell you most certainly and demonstrate to you with decisive proofs, that instead of the Islamic world's love and brotherhood, you shall earn its loathing and disgust, and you shall fall prey to the anarchy underlying absolute disbelief that is now attempting to destroy the Islamic world; you shall be the cause of the Islamic world's citadel and renowned army, the Turkish nation, being torn to pieces and overrun by the fearsome monster that has emerged from the north-east.

Yes, this heroic nation may withstand the two terrible currents pressing down from outside by relying of the strength of the Qur'an. Only this nation can halt absolute disbelief, absolute despotism, and absolute dissipation, and the current that gains an overwhelming force by allowing the rebellious to seize the wealth of the upright; only this nation, which is fused with Islam and united with Islam and in the past has won all its honour through Islam. The zealous patriots of this nation will halt that current, God willing, by taking the truths of the Qur'an as their guiding principles in place of secular education, for they are the life-blood of this nation, which is thus fused and united.

The second current['s representatives] have followed a strategy of accustoming their colonies in the Islamic world to themselves in order to entirely bind them to this current, to impute irreligion to the powerful Islamic centre of this country and to corrupt it, and in effect to sever the bonds between this country and the Islamic world, and turn the latter's brotherhood into enmity. It has been somewhat successful in this up to the present. If this current were to come to its senses, it would change this alarming strategy and placate Islam in this centre just as it has placated the Islamic world. It would both profit enormously, and preserve its vast conquests to a degree, and save this country and nation from a ghastly calamity.

If the patriotic, nation-loving people of whom you are the General Secretary attempt to persist with the principles that have been in force up to now and have trampled our sacred matters on account of modern civiliza-