► (018) ◄ To the President of the Republic, the Cabinet, the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Justice, and Directorate of Religious Affairs, Ankara

To the President of the Republic, the Cabinet,

the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Justice,

and Directorate of Religious Affairs, Ankara

I am explaining a few points for those persons who work for true justice and freedom.

First Point: Both Denizli Court and Ankara Criminal Court scrutinized all the parts of the Risale-i Nur and together with the committee of experts took the decision that there was no objection to acquitting them and returning them to their owners, and they also acquitted Said and his companions and discharged them. Although the Court of Appeal ruled that this same decision was res judicata, now the same Court of Appeal has again quashed Afyon's completely baseless decision against Said and his friends and the quite illegal seizing by two people with personal malice against Said, of those same books and his wonderfully handwritten miraculous Qur'an. And although some of the zealous, patriotic Democrat leaders who have saved the country and nation from the vindictive despotism of the former party accept and appreciate fully those treatises, for three years to cause penurious people like us a loss of thousands of liras and to prolong for three years a case that has been acquitted three times, is an extraordinary injustice and the result of personal animosity. For twenty months while in absolute solitary confinement they did not allow my assistant even to have contact with me. On being released, they posted two policemen on my door. Also, in order to disparage those genuinely God-fearing Nur students just because of their piety, they held their trial at the time of the evening prayer, causing them to perform it later and thus perpetrating a wilful injustice. Also, one time they also confiscated the entire Risale-i Nur in Isparta, and again returned it having studied it.

Since now in the Democrats' time, there is a revival of such marks of Islam as the call to prayer and religious instruction and work with the Qur'an, and a start has been made to repair the harms caused to the Qur'an by the former party; and since the works of the irreligious, the Masons, and the communists are being published; for sure, those people who are seizing such blessed collections as Zülfikar, The Staff of Moses, and The Shining Lamp (Siracü 'n-Nur), which have been commended and appreciated by leading Islamic scholars in such places as Mecca, Medina, and Damascus, and have been read to the scholars of the Directorate of Religious Affairs, and have silenced the scientists, are not doing this on account of justice, right, and truth, but with malicious intent on account of communism and