them for the sake of those innocents, and sometimes I even forgive them. It is owing to this compassion that just as we have done nothing to infringe public order and security, so too, I have advised all our friends to such an extent that some fair-minded police in three provinces have admitted that the Nur students are moral police and preserve public order and security. This fact has been corroborated by the students' lives over twenty years by thousands of witnesses, and by no incident at all being recorded by the police despite there being thousands of students. So which law would permit the house of that person to be raided as though he were a lawless revolutionary, and for unscrupulous men to insult him, and although they were unable to find anything incriminating, to seize his Qur'an and the posters on his wall as though they were dangerous papers and he was a multiple lawbreaker?

The Sixth: Thirty years ago, that person realized through the grace of God and the effusions of the Qur'an just how harmful, just how profitless, just how meaningless are fleeting honour and renown in this world, and egotistical self-advertisement and love of fame. From that time he has struggled with all his strength with his evil-commanding soul and has striven as far as he possibly can to abnegate himself and renounce egotism and to act without artificiality and hypocrisy. Although his companions and those who serve him know this; and although contrarily to everyone else, for the past twenty years he has fled with all his strength from the excessively good opinions of people and their regard and praise for his person, which everyone wants for themselves, and from looking on himself as a holder of high spiritual rank; and although he has rejected the favourable opinions of his select brothers and offended them, and in his replies to their letters has rebuffed their praises for him and broken their excessively high opinions, and has shown himself to be bereft of virtue, and has ascribed all virtue to the Risale-i Nur, which is a commentary on the Qur'an, and thus indirectly to the collective personality of the Nur students, and that he considers himself to be a common servant; and although this proves decisively that he has not tried to make himself liked, and has not wanted this, and has rejected it; and although without his consent, some of his friends a long way off evinced an excessively favourable opinion of him and applauded him and accorded him a high rank; according to which law could he be indicted due to some things a preacher in the region of Kütahya said and due to a letter bearing my forged signature, although I have never sent a letter to Kütahya, and due to an inflamatory book being found in Balıkesir whose author is unknown? Is there any law in the world, any policy, that would permit the smashing of the lock on the door of a wretched, ill, very