► (069) ◄ It is Only the Truth that Speaks

[This letter, which our Master wrote long ago, was added to the court decision since it answers fully the accusations of securing personal influence and exploiting religion for political ends.]

It is Only the Truth that Speaks

It is proved in the Risale-i Nur that sometimes justice is manifested through tyranny. That is to say, for some reason a person suffers an injustice or is the victim of oppression, or he is visited by a calamity and is convicted for a crime and sent to prison. It is unjust and the sentence is unwarranted, but the event is a means to the manifestation of justice. Divine determining inflicts the sentence on the person through an unjust hand because he deserved it or for some other reason, causing him to suffer the calamity. It is a sort of manifestation of divine justice.

I am thinking now, for twenty-eight years I have been made to move from province to province and from town to town. I have been dragged from court to court. Of what crime do those who inflict this persecution and torment on me accuse me? Exploiting religion for politics? But why have they been unable to prove this? Because in reality there is no such thing. For months and years one court was trying to find me guilty and convict me. It gave up and another court opened proceedings against me concerning the same case. For a while it pursued the matter and pressurized me, making me suffer every kind of torment. It too could conclude nothing so gave up, then a third court fastened itself onto me, In this way I have been dragged from misfortune to misfortune and from calamity to calamity. Twenty-eight years of my life have passed thus. Finally they themselves have understood that there is absolutely no truth in the crime they accuse me of,

Do they intentionally accuse me, or have they been carried away by some groundless fear? Whether intentional or unfounded, I know with complete and utter certainty that I have no connection whatsoever with such a crime. All those who are fair-minded know that I am not a person who would exploit religion for politics, In fact, my accusers know this. So why do they persist in persecuting me? Why have I been the object of such continuous oppression and persistent torture although I am innocent? Why have I been unable to be saved from this misfortune? Is this situation not opposed to divine justice?

For twenty-five years I could find no answer to these questions, but now I have understood the true reason for their persecution: I say with utter