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Our Master says:

Although those government officials who have had dealings me these twenty-eight years have always oppressed me, the police have never troubled me; in fact, some of them have been protective. I am now pronouncing the reason for this, which is that it is now realized that the Nur students and the Risale-i Nur work to secure public order and security like moral police, and in sacred fashion, and that with their admonishments in regard to belief, they lodge a prohibitor in people's hearts. Evidently, the police perceived this and always appeared friendly to us. The underlying meaning of this is as follows:

In accordance with a fundamental law of the Qur'an, so that no harm should come to ninety innocents because of ten criminals, the Nur students and the Risale-i Nur prevent those who try to disturb public order. In consequence of this, despite the existence of awesome non-material destructive forces struggling to disturb public order, and despite their endeavouring to do this in this blessed country to a greater degree than in France, Egypt, Morocco, and Iran, the chief reason they have been unable to do so is that, as a moral force for the police, six hundred thousand copies of parts of the Risale-i Nur and five hundred thousand Nur students have withstood that spiritual and moral destruction. The police have felt this, for contrarily to the officials these last twenty-eight years, they have behaved towards the Risale-i Nur fairly and kindly.

Our Master also says:

More than the hojas and even the Sufis, the duty of members of the police force demands that they should be God-fearing, preserve themselves from serious sins, and perform their religious obligations. There is intense need for this, for then they may carry out to the letter their duties connected with public order and security against the forces wreaking moral and spiritual destruction.

The Nur students in attendance on him ∗∗∗