tion, and taking as their guiding principles the policies enacted by three or four people in the name of reform (inkilap), they ascribe the resulting ghastly errors to the nation, then the evils performed by the three or four will become three or four million and will constitute serious oppostion to the innumerable past armies of the Turkish nation with their millions of martyrs. For this nation is a heroic and religious nation and the army of Islam; to persist in the above will be a cause of dishonour and torment to their spirits. Moreover, if the good works which have found existence through the nation's and army's power and zeal and in which those three or four reformist men had a very small part, are ascribed to those three or four men, those three or four million good works will be reduced and restricted to three or four good works, and will in no way atone for those awesome errors.

Thirdly: You surely have numerous and various opponents, both internal and external. I would not know because I have not concerned myself with worldly or political affairs. But because they have harassed me so much this year, I have been compelled to search for the reason and I saw that an opponent of yours had emerged. If that opponent had been a perfect leader and had appeared in the name of the truths of belief, he would have defeated you in one fell swoop. For ninety-nine per cent of this nation has for a thousand years been bound heart and spirit to the traditions of Islam. Even if it bows obediently to the commands of an opposing nature, it would not be bound to them with the heart.

Furthermore, Muslims do not resemble other nations; if they give up their religion, they become anarchists and cannot be held by any bonds; they can be controlled only by absolute despotism and unqualified bribery and not by any educative or preventative measures. There are numerous examples proving this fact so I am cutting it short and refer it to your intelligence.

Sweden, Norway, and Finland have felt an intense need this century for the Qur'an, it is essential that you do not lag behind them. Your duty is to act as guide to them and to others like them. If you ascribe the errors of the reforms that have occurred up to the present to the three or four men and try to repair the destruction caused under the constraints of the World War and other revolutions — especially the destruction caused to the religious traditions — it will both win you great honour in the future, and be atonement in the hereafter for your serious mistakes, and be a useful service for the country and nation, and make you deserving to be known as patriotic and a lover of the nation.

Fourthly: Since death cannot be killed nor the door of the grave be