est importance for the generations of fifty years hence, and to save them and this nation and country from grave danger. Those who are now struggling against us will then be dust in their graves. If to suppose the impossible that striving for well-being and happiness had been oppositional struggle, it would in any case have been futile to bother with those doomed to be dust in the grave.

Just as the laxity in social morality, religion, and the national character displayed by the libertarians [of the Second Constitutional Period] has resulted now twenty to thirty years later in the present state of religion and morality; so you may surely understand what the state fifty years hence will be of this religious, honourable, and heroic nation's sons in regard to religion and social morality. Although this self-sacrificing nation has for a thousand years displayed matchless heroism in the service of the Qur'an, the coming generations will besmirch its shining past; indeed, will destroy it. We therefore know it to be a national and patriotic duty of paramount importance to convey a truth like the Risale-i Nur to some of those people of the future in order to save them from such a ghastly decline, and so we think of them and not of the people now.

Sirs! It is true that the Risale-i Nur looks only to the hereafter and it's aim is God's pleasure and to save the belief of people, and its students strive to save themselves and others from eternal non-being and everlasting incarceration, but it also performs a vital service of secondary importance that concerns this world, which is to save this nation and country from the danger of anarchy and the wretched members of coming generations from absolute misguidance. For Muslims do not resemble other people; one who renounces his religion and loses his Islamic character falls into absolute misguidance and becomes an anarchist who can no longer be controlled.

Fifty per cent of people now received the old Islamic upbringing and fifty per cent are unconcerned with national and Islamic traditions, but in fifty years' time ninety per cent will follow only their own whims and desires and lead the nation and country into anarchy. The thought of this calamitous possibility and the search for a solution drove me twenty years ago to give up politics and prevented me entirely from struggling with the people of this century. So too it prevented the Risale-i Nur and its students from evincing any interest in current events; they neither engage in any struggle nor are involved in any way.

Since the truth is this, the courts should consider it their primary duty to protect the Risale-i Nur and its students, not to incriminate me and them. For they are defending a primary right of this nation and country, and in opposition to them, this nation and country's real enemies attack the