barrier against that force's destruction of the sensibilities of the heart (mâneviyat-i kalbiye), that force's greatest strength, and curing their spiritual wounds. The Education Minister of the new government has evidently felt this fact for, contrarily to his predecessors, he is giving greater importance to religious instruction and the spread of the truths of belief. Even, the newspapers have reported that two hundred thousand liras have been earmarked for a university in the east, called by them the University of the East, attaching considerable importance to it. Both Ankara and Istanbul Universities have certainly grasped the above-mentioned fact and that it is the truths of the Qur'an and belief that will save both the country and the youth from that awesome, destructive force, for the Ankara students presented a letter with one thousand seven hundred signatures congratulating the Education Minister on his including religious instruction in the compulsory schools. And in Istanbul University they told one of the leading members of the new government that in Anatolia there is a powerful current of support for religion, and he replied that they will allow few opportunities to both that current and the leftists. So the university representative told the government leader despite his being opposed to religious publications: "If the current you're referring to is the Risale-i Nur, neither yourselves nor Europe will be able to defeat it!" In connection with this matter, although it is opposed to my way and temperament, I say the following, donning for a minute or two the head of the Old Said:

There is nothing between belief and unbelief. There can be nothing in this country between communism and Islam and its struggle against it. Right and left and centre means three ways. It is fair enough if the English or French say this; they can say, Islam on the right, communism on the left, and Christianity in the centre. But in this country, there can be no other religion or sect besides Islam and belief and its struggle against absolute unbelief. For no true Muslims can ever become Jews or Christians. At the very most, they lose religion completely and become anarchists.

God willing, like the Education and Justice Ministers, the other leading members of the government will fully understand this facto In place of the terms right and left, they will rely on the power of the Qur'an and belief and strive to save the country from absolute disbelief, anarchy, and atheism, and their awesome destruction. We beseech this with our whole life and spirit from divine mercy, and hope for it. ∗∗∗

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