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and justice and general peace, is now wanting to infiltrate our wretched country. Strife is appearing, as though the beginnings of obdurately biased partisanship are being inculcated. The fundamental law is this:

Due to the mistake of a single member of a group, or of a movement or tribe, all the members of those groups are condemned and falsely imagined to be enemies and responsible. One mistake becomes thousands. Brotherhood and citizenship, and love and fellow-feeling, which are the foundations of unity and unanimity, are overturned. Yes, obdurate opposing forces that clash, lose their power. Then due to the weakness arising from this loss of power, the nation and country cannot be served justly. The forces are obliged to give material and other bribes, and in order to find supporters for themselves, irreligious currents utilize the cruel, savage, primitive fundamental law mentioned above, In the face of this, in accordance with the revealed, sacred verse, "No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another" (Q 6:164 etc.), which is pure justice, is a fundamental law of the Qur'an which ensures true love and brotherhood and saves this country from this danger. It says: "No one can be held responsible for another's fault. No one may be said to share in a crime committed by his brother even, or his tribe or group, or party. If he supports him somehow in the crime, it is a sin for which he will be answerable in the next world, not in this world." If this fundamental law is not promulgated swiftly, human society will fall to the very lowest of barbaric reactionism, equal in destruction to that perpetrated during the two world wars.

The following is the basis of the politics of those wretches who give the name of reactionism to such sacred fundamental laws of the Qur'an as the above and accept the fundamental law of barbarism and savagery: "Individuals may be sacrificed for the good of the community. Personal rights may be disregarded for the welfare of the country. Minor injustices may ignored in the interests of state policies." It considers permissible the killing of a thousand people because of one criminal. Thousands of innocents may be thrown into misery due to one man being wounded. On such pretexts, two hundred men being lined up and shot is overlooked. In the First World War, thirty million wretched human beings were wiped out due to the errors of three thousand. There are thousands of such examples. So to label "reactionary" and leave under suspicion those self-sacrificing believers and students of the Qur'an who oppose the awesome injustices of that barbaric reactionism and who strive to secure true justice, unity and brotherhood in line with the fundamental law taught by the verse, "And no bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another," which is one of hundreds of the Qur'an's fundamental principles, resembles preferring the

4–6 October 2026 · Istanbul

13th International Bediuzzaman Symposium

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