decision was ratified by the Appeal Court. The case became res judicata and all the works were returned to their esteemed author and their owners. The vindictive decision given latterly by Afyon Court on the particular orders of the communist deputy of the People's Party was quashed by the former just chairman of the Court of Appeal. Finally, with the general amnesty, a veil was drawn over their attempted slanderous accusations and the case was dropped.

While the truth of the matter is this and numerous defamatory publications are being freely disseminated, these moves are being made to destroy the truly veracious four-hundred-page collection on the pretext of two pages of commentary on a verse from the Qur'an, and charges are being made of its violating the law. The purpose of this, which is being carried out directly on account of the former tyrannical party, is to turn the hundreds of thousands of Nur students against the Democrats, to eliminate this powerful source of support for them, and to bring down the Democrat government. We are informing you of this diabolical plan in order to thwart it, and we offer our respects.

In the name of the university Nur students,

Yusuf Ziya Arun ∗∗∗

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Our Most Esteemed, Blessed, Beloved, and Kind Master!

The Directorate of Religious Affairs had the miraculous, handwritten Qur'an in which the name of Allah is inscribed in gold, sent from Afyon Court, and the day before yesterday dispatched it to the Qur'an Examination Committee in Istanbul. It will be returned after having been examined by the committee, which will authorize its publication.

Also, the Consultative Committee of the Directorate has studied the petition sent to the Directorate by the heroic Ahmed Altın of Akşehir, a copy of which he had earlier sent to our beloved Master, In consequence, they are going to give one of the two sets of the Risale-i Nur which our Master sent as a gift to the Directorate to the Consultative Committee to study. We have an esteemed brother in the Directorate who is working to this end, In truth, Ankara, which was completely enveloped in darkness, has changed remarkably and is continuing to change gradually. The poi- sons that were being scattered have lost their effectiveness, as have the demonstrations of the youth.

Sungur ∗∗∗