dress and inheritance that were written thirty to forty years ago and only mention what is written in one hundred thousand Qur'anic commentaries. What law in the world would permit them to seize that weighty collection and not return it to us? Also, with the exception of two short pieces about repetition in the Qur'an and the angels, both Denizli Court and Ankara Criminal Court gave the decision to acquit and return to us all the works held for two years by Afyon Court since they could find nothing reprehensible in them. Then although the Isparta authorities at one time confiscated all the works, they returned all of them to their owners, Then they seized The Staff of Moses and Zülfikar on the pretext that they were being published in the old script without permission and held them for four years, but then because they could find nothing indictable in them returned all the one hundred and seventy volumes to us without any loss. And although the religious publications and official newspapers now express the same objections a hundred times more violently that we did in the name of right, towards some of the leaders of the former party, they showed this to be our most serious crime. ... ... ...

Thus, while the truth of the matter is this, Afyon Court stated at the end of its decision, which was also printed in the old letters, not in the name of justice but out of bigoted love of that person who is dead and gone, in order to convict us and due mostly to the prosecutor's malice, that "Said and his friends call Mustafa Kemal anti-religious and an anti-christ and they try to destroy the people's love for him, that's why we're convicting them!" Surely, even if such objections towards a dead person were a thousand times greater, it would only constitute a personal case. There is something strange in this and there must be some other matter in it so that a court of justice has made such a ruling. Now that all the parts of the Risale-i Nur which those people hold have been acquitted four times and the present Minister of Justice has decided, on the quashing of the Afyon Court decision which convicted us, that the Risale-i Nur contains nothing constituting an offence and that it has been acquitted three times, now in this era of the Democrat government, from which the whole nation awaits justice, compassion, and religion, if, due to the cunning schemes of the former tyrants, the Risale-i Nur is left to the abitrary devices of the ill-intentioned, it will be serious treachery against the Democrat government and will dash the nation's hopes of consolation. My deputy in Ankara, Mustafa Sungur, gave the good news in the telegraph he sent on 17.11.1950 that the decision had been taken to return all the parts of the Risale-i Nur to us, and that the just Justice Minister had endorsed the three acquittals. According to Sungur's subsequent letter, orders had been given