a truth as unassailable as steel for which two hundred thousand Turks are eager customers, and to which they are ready to devote themselves and their spirits. It strengthens the belief of anyone whose belief is weak on this point. The politicians and those who have lost their belief are frightened to provoke it and will no longer swiftly attack it. As for the harm towards my person, Almighty God is the Preserver. They may try to damage my prestige with slanders that would not occur to Satan even, in order to denigrate me, induce my brothers to flee from me, and rupture our brotherhood.

Yûsuf Ziya, who was a member of the experts' committee and is a consultant at the Directorate of Religious Affairs, and the other hojas, have asked for a complete set of the Risale-i Nur from us. As a respectful request, they sent with Hasan Çalışkan, whom we had sent there, such pieces as the Thirtieth Word (Second Station), about the transformation of minute particles, the discussion about particles at the beginning of the First Stopping-Place of the Thirty-Second Word, the piece about the air (Hüve Nüktesi) and the parts about particles in the Treatise on Nature. It is as though they want to understand the meaning of the verse, "And there is nothing but it glorifies Him with praise" (Q 17:44), and it may be understand through those pieces. Those pieces also silence the materialists, who have now started to corrupt ideas freely.

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► (215) ◄ Legally, they should have taken my statement but they neglected to do so, so I am now presenting my statement to the collective personality of the judiciary and for the information of the Interior Minister

Legally, they should have taken my statement but they neglected to do so, so I am now presenting my statement to the collective personality of the judiciary and for the information of the Interior Minister.

By reason of your job and duty, you are obliged and compelled to heed a person who has caused no harm to this country and nation this last forty years; indeed, has been most beneficial for them. In short, during the Thirty-First of March Incident, with one speech this person induced eight mutinying regiments to obey their officers and he saved many of those officers; and with his pamphlet The Six Steps in the midst of the national movement he turned the ulema, Şeyhülislam, and Istanbul away from supporting the foreign occupation forces; and performed courageous services during the First World War that were praised and applauded by the late Enver Pasha; and whom three awesome commanders did not dare to touch, although they were angry with him; and before the truth which he had followed, three courts of law were confounded and did not have the courage