themselves by lowering their standards. If there are no suitable young men, they should remain single like some of the self-sacrificing male Nur students, until a suitor of conscience appears who has received an Islamic upbringing and is suitable for them and will be a companion for all eternity. They should not put everlasting happiness into jeopardy for some fleeting worldly pleasure. Nor should they throw themselves into the evils of civilization. [^10]

[^10]:My sisters and the young girls should read the Treatise on Islamic Dress for Women. [Author] See, The Flashes Collection. New edn. (Istanbul: Sözler Publications, 2011), 254-8.

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► (046) ◄ A Pleasant Memory from Prison

A Pleasant Memory from Prison

While we were in prison, there would sometimes be talk of an amnesty, put about by the former cruel despots in order to deceive, and the miserable prisoners would ask me if this would happen. I would tell them that they were only saying it to hoodwink them. However, the Nur students had been sent to prison three times for the purpose of consoling the prisoners and getting ninety per cent of them to perform the prayers. I therefore hoped from divine mercy with powerful hope that it was a sign that a full amnesty would be granted to the prisons, and I gave good news of this. On many occasions I consoled many men with this. Endless thanks be to Almighty God that the heroic Democrats confirmed my hopes and predictions and were the means of saving many innocent prisoners from torments, for they were being crushed on the pretext of arbitrary, biased laws and certain hostile officials' partisanship. They also made the bold sections of the nation supporters of themselves and of public order. It led also to numerous prisoners completely reforming by reason of their attachment to the Risale-i Nur and the Nurjus, and their becoming useful — rather than harmful members of the nation and country.

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