elderly recluse who is a stranger as though he had committed some crime, and for detectives to search it but then could find nothing but a book of invocations and some posters?

The Seventh: What law would permit such an assault on a person who, at this time when there are so many lively internal and external political currents in this country and the time is ripe to profit from them; — that is, to win to his side many high-ranking politicians instead of his few friends, he wrote and warned his friends not to get carried away on any of the political currents or enter politics or disturb public order, solely not to interfere in politics or harm sincerity or attract the government's attention to himself or to busy himself with this world; and although the two main currents caused him trouble and difficulties due to his avoidance of them, the former one out of their groundless fears, the new one because he does not assist it, he does not meddle in the world of the worldly at all but is busy with his life in the next world, and in twenty-two years has not written a single letter to his own brother in his home region and the village of Nurs, and in twenty years has not written ten letters to his friends in those provinces. So which law would permit such harassment of so wretched a man and his preoccupation with the hereafter? Although the law allowing freedom of speech and ideas does not intervene in the dissemination of the books of the irreligious and the communists' publications, which are most damaging to this country, nation, and morality, would any law, any conscience, any fair-mindedness permit the seizure as though they were dangerous documents of such parts of the Risale-i Nur as Zülfikar and The Staff of Moses, which contain nothing indictable as has been proven by three courts, and for twenty years has been striving to hold together society for this nation and country and to maintain its morality and security, and to restore the Islamic world's brotherhood and friendship for this nation, which is its true source of support, and to strengthen it effectively, and the value of which was recognized by the scholars of the Directorate of Religious Affairs on their scrutinizing them for three months on the orders of the Interior Minister, although their intention had been to find fault with it; what law and conscience would permit their being handed over to the courts?

The Eighth: This person has not departed for his native region where he has thousands of relations and friends, although he has been given his complete freedom after twenty years of distressing exile without cause; he has preferred to remain alone and in exile so that he should have no contact with this world, and the life of society, and politics; he has eschewed the rewards of performing the prayers in congregation in the mosque, and pre-