► (057) ◄

Just like the Isparta heroes, Eflâni and Safranbolu work continuously. In fact, this time, the invocation (Münâcât) was missing from some of the copies of A Guide for Youth. In a very short time, Eflâni wrote out seventy copies of it in the old letters and sent them to me. So we added them to the end of the Guide. God willing, many Sungurs are appearing there, and will appear. ∗∗∗

► (058) ◄ An Addendum to the Defence Speech

An Addendum to the Defence Speech

You can send a petition to the justice-loving Democrats in the following vein. I am ill, so write it in whatever way you deem appropriate.

The letter we received yesterday from our lawyer states that in a way that conforms with no law, they have made a pretext of one single word out of thousands and with the idea of vindictively preventing the spread of the Risale-i Nur, said it constitutes an offence and have not returned that treatise. Although according to the decision of the Appeal Court which totally quashed their decision, what they showed to be an offence was not against us, and although we proved decisively the eighty errors in the public prosecutor's indictment and his malice, now with the same malice they have stated that a few lines about Islamic dress and inheritance in the four-hundred-page Zülfikar Collection that were written thirty or forty years ago, about which a hundred thousand Qur'anic commentaries have said the same things, constitute an offence and they have confiscated the work and refuse to return it. Is there any law in the world that would permit this?

Also, with the exception of two short pieces about repetition in the Qur'an and the angels, all the works held by Afyon Court have been acquitted by both Denizli Court and Ankara Criminal Court, having been investigated for two years, and the same works were all returned to their owners by the Isparta authorities after having been seized at some time. Then Zülfikar and The Staff of Moses were confiscated and held for four years on the pretext that they were published in the old script without permission, and all one hundred and seventy copies of the collections were returned to us with no losses because they could find nothing reprehensible in them. And what they showed to be our most serious offence, our objecting in the name of truth to some of the leaders of the former party, are now being reiterated a hundred times more violently in the official newspapers and religious journals. Whereas, a confidential piece of the Risale-i Nur