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alarmed at the law ensuring religious freedom being postponed although it should have had priority and been ratified urgently, and they are worried that in the nation's eyes the religious deputies are failing to perform their most crucial religious duties. We too are alarmed and so that internal covert atheists and traitors who work on account of communism do not take advantage of this situation, out of patriotism I am compelled to explain the following fact to you. The fact is this:

A Reminder to Religious Democrat Deputies

Due to my illness these days, I have been unable to endure the intense cold. On numerous occasions I have experienced that as a result of a general error, the air and earth grow angry and give news of divine wrath through earthquakes and storms, and display conditions opposed to the ordinary. I perceived in this signs of a non-material storm. I wondered in my heart if a general mistake had again been made, causing harm to Islam and the truths of belief. I asked what there was in the newspapers and what the news was, although it is not my custom and I have given up world politics. They told me that the law ensuring the freedom of religious people who disseminate religion has been postponed, while the law concerning leftists has been expedited and ratified.

It occurred to my heart that before anything else, for the benefit of this country and Islam it is essential that the law ensuring the freedom of religious people be both expedited, and ratified, and urgently implemented in schools. For together with winning for this country with such a ratification, the moral strength of the nearly forty million Muslims in Russia and the four-hundred-million world of Islam, as a reserve force, it would halt the moral and spiritual depradations of communism. For while due to its thousand-year enmity Russia should first of all have attacked us, rather than America or Britain, what obviated such an attack was doubtless the truths of the Qur'an and belief. In which case, before anything else, in the face of that extraordinary force, it is absolutely essential to actively grasp the truths of the Qur'an and to construct a Qur'anic barrier before irreligion, like an insuperable barrier of Dhu'l-Qarnayn. For it is only the truths of belief and the Qur'an which have prevented Russia from attacking us and halted it, although up to the present it has overrun half China and half Europe. Since the judiciary can respond to the Russians' moral destruction only by giving material penalties to one man out of a thousand; moral and spiritual bombs are needed against that force which hands over the prop-

4–6 October 2026 · Istanbul

13th International Bediuzzaman Symposium

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