and compel me to remain all alone by myself in lonely isolation? What law permits this dire cruelty? I am informing the Interior Minister of the above by means of the high office of the judiciary, which protects the rights of the public.

S a i d   N u r s i,

who is wrongfully deprived of all civil and human

rights and the right to life. ∗∗∗

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Recently, two high-ranking colonels (both were gendarme officers) and a deputy who was a party inspector visited our Master. Having held a long conversation with him, they decided with complete resignation to be friends with him. And now one of them has become a Nur student. The deputy and chief inspector was evidently a friend of the Old Said. After they had gone, we learnt that through him that Hilmi Bey, the former Interior Minister and now General Secretary of the party, was going to visit our Master privately and have a friendly meeting with him. We have therefore sent this note to you so that an exact copy should be given him and this matter should be discussed. Our Master gave us permission to send it to you to inform you before he comes.

He also wrote a prayer at the end of the short treatise written out by Hüsnü, Re'fet Bey's blessed son, and we include this as an enclosure. Endless thanks be to Almighty God that a kaymakam has been appointed here who is both a Nurju, and an earnest friend, and religious. We are sending also the piece called "A Conversation with the Interior Minister." Our Master is going to read it to him as well. ∗∗∗

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The hero Nazif and Yâkub Cemal say that the coinciding (tevâfuk) with the publication of Zülfikar of the acceptance of the Qur'an by three states in the north-west, and this confirming the statement last year that if Zülfikar was to appear it would lead to great conquests at home and abroad, is truly auspicious, and we share in the conviction of those two brothers. It is most significant that in this stormy and godless century three states should openly acknowledge humanity's intense need for the Qur'an, and one, the German, should do so secretly. It is indeed good news for us and for the Islamic world that three states in far-off lands should all