Denizli Court decision, and its being upheld by the Court of Appeal. Then I said to him that the law is superior to everything in the government of the Republic, and its rulings prevail, so since we have been acquitted by the law, we should not be made subject to such interference, and that it could be prevented in the event of his giving the appropriate orders. Otherwise, we could seek redress. He later replied that the difficulties arose from the court officials and police there being inadequately informed about our case. He said that the papers were all with him and that he would reply to all their remarks, which had been misunderstood. He said that he regarded the works highly. I conveyed our Master's greetings to him, and he did likewise and requested his prayers.

Later, I left him and visited the Director of Religious Affairs. I conversed with him for a while and gave him the details. He replied that he knew our Master from the Darü'l-Hikmet and that he had great respect for him, and asked me to convey his greetings and respects to him. He said that he would give the requisite answer and that he hoped it would be satisfactory.

All the members of the Directorate are appreciative of the works. I understood that the only reason for irregularities of this kind is that they do not maintain good intentions when studying religious works and that they interpret them arbitrarily according to their own ideas. The following day, our brother Mehmed Efendi met with Vehbi Pasha, the Erzurum deputy, who undertook to see the Interior Minister and discuss the matter at length. He sent his greetings and respects to our Master. Whereupon I left it to İsmail Efendi to meet with the party leaders, and I left Ankara.

Your faulty, powerless student,

Re'fet ∗∗∗

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I went out in the carriage for a couple of hours to see the flowers this splendid spring. [^90] And I felt with absolute certainty (hakkalyakîn) that the flowering grasses which had sprung up and burgeoned in a way I had never before seen in my life and unfurled their blossoms, were offering glorifications with the tongues of their beings and hymning the praises of their

[^90]:The splendid spring this year with its plentiful merciful rain is evidence that the partial replacement of the peaked cap in the army, and the official opening of Qur'an courses, and the effective dissemination of Zülfikar and The Staff of Moses for the purpose of saving belief have all yielded most merciful results. [Author]