tion is vis-à-vis the court. Our brother Burhan writes that he has suffered a small setback, what was it? I was curious. May Almighty God repulse it. I was very pleased to receive the letters of Re'fet Bey and Abdullah Çavuş. I send them greetings in particular. Greetings to all.

Your brother,

S a i d   N u r s i ∗∗∗

► (218) ◄ Addendum to the Petition Sent to the President, which I have been obliged to write

Addendum to the Petition Sent to the President,

which I have been obliged to write

The chief reason those malicious people attack and oppress me is their friendship and partiality for Mustafa Kemal. So I say to them, thirty years ago I said about a man who is now dead and gone and whose connections with the government are severed, that according to a Hadith, someone would emerge who would cause harm to the Qur'an, and subsequently time showed that man to be Mustafa Kemal.

Also, because I did not wrongfully ascribe to M. Kemal the honour and victory of a valiant army which with its heroism and love of truth had for five hundred years challenged the world, his malicious friends have been tormenting me for the last twenty years on false pretexts.

Yes, as I proved in court, in accordance with a veracious rule, honour, glory, distinction, and material and moral booty are given to the army and community, and distributed; errors and faulty strategies are ascribed to the commander and chiefs, hence the victories and glory of a heroic army and its soldiers and the valiant officers at their head should not be ascribed to Mustafa Kemal, rather, the errors and faults should be ascribed to him. So I consider those who accuse me of not loving him, and of not loving the heroic army and of slighting their honour, to be traitors to this nation. I have proved this in court and I am ready to prove it to his obdurate friends. I love the millions of members of this blessed nation's courageous army and its officers, and I do whatever I can to protect their reputation and honour. My malicious enemies who oppose me in effect betray those millions of soldiers out of their love for that one man, and are hostile to them, even.

Yes, numerous signs led me to understand that what incites those who attack me are my objections to Mustafa Kemal and my not being friendly towards him. The other reasons are mere pretexts. I have therefore been obliged to say to those enemies of mine: he summoned me to Ankara to act