In short: This person is either completely mad seeing that he is so indifferent towards the dreadful events in the world, or in order to work sincerely for the greatest happiness of this country and nation, he does not condescend to interest himself in anything nor does he attach importance to anything. Since this is the case, it is a sort of treachery towards the country, nation, and public order to harrass and persecute him. To harbour suspicions about him in this way is crazy. ∗∗∗

► (002) ◄ A Truthful Answer to an Important Question

A Truthful Answer to an Important Question

Some of the high officials asked me: "Why didn't you accept Mustafa Kemal's offer of the post of General Preacher in Kurdistan and the eastern provinces in place of Shaykh Sanusi, with a salary of three hundred liras? If you had, it would have saved the lives of the hundred thousand people who were killed in the Revolt."

In reply I told them: The Risale-i Nur has been a means saving the lives in the hereafter of hundreds of thousands of citizens, each lasting millions of years, in place of the twenty or thirty years of worldly life. If I had accepted the offer, the Risale-i Nur would not have come into being, which can be the tool of nothing and follows nothing and bears the mystery of sincerity. If fact, I told my esteemed brothers in prison: If the belief is saved through the Risale-i Nur of those persons who sentenced me to death because of the severe blows it has dealt them — which had been sent to Ankara, you bear witness that I forgive them with all my heart and spirit!

After our acquittal in Denizli I told those who were pestering me with their surveillance and the high-ranking officers and police chief:

It is an undeniable wonder of the Risale-i Nur that in seven months of investigation into the hundreds of letters and writings of my twenty-year life of oppression, and into those of my thousands of students, absolutely no document has been found or connection with any movement, any association, or with any society at home or abroad. Could any ideas or precautions have secured this wondrous situation? If the private affairs and secrets of a single person over twenty years are made public, certainly twenty matters will emerge that might incriminate or shame him. Since the fact of the matter is this, of course you will say either that an extraordinary, insuperable intelligence is organizing the matter, or that it is an instance of