doing so." But they could find no evidence for these allegations in my calamitious new life and the thirty large collections of my writings. Since no court could find anything in these matters and could not convict me, for other courts to insistently seize on the same matter, is completely opposed to the law, reason, and customary practice. Indeed, those who exploit politics for irreligion direct these accusations at us as a screen for themselves. Whereas my sixty-year life of scholarship in the service of religion is certain proof and a decisive argument that throughout my life I have followed the principle of making politics, this world, and all social currents the tools, servants, and followers of religion. I have claimed and proved with decisive evidence in the courts that I would not exchange a single truth of belief for rule over the whole world, let alone exploit religion for politics. Although this is the case, certain members of the judiciary and politicians who occupy high places have imagined the accusation, which is in twenty ways opposed to the truth, to be the truth, and for twenty-eight years have acted unjustly towards me. Recently, I have understood the true reason for this, which is as follows:

The gravest danger that faced me in serving belief at this time of egotism, and my most serious offence and crime, was the possibility of exploiting the work I did in serving the Qur'an for my own material and spiritual progress and attainment. I offer endless thanks to Almighty God that outside my will over this long period of time I perceived a powerful, non-material obstacle preventing me from making my service a tool of anything at all, let alone of my spiritual progress and attainments, and a means of being saved from the torments of Hell, and even gaining everlasting happiness. I was always astonished at this. Why was I being prevented in my spirit from winning through good works the spiritual ranks and the happiness of the hereafter that everyone wants, although it is licit and harmful in no way? Then it was shown to me that to serve belief, seeking divine pleasure alone and as an innate, scholarly duty, was itself the wage.

For at the present time, such Qur'anic instruction is necessary as is the tool of nothing, and follows nothing, and teaches the truths of belief effectively to those in need, with innate worship and affording complete certainty to everyone, and following no other aim. This is the sole solution in these terrible times. Only in this way may it smash absolute disbelief and obdurate, perverse misguidance, A person may feel completely confident in such instruction in present conditions by knowing that it is being exploited for nothing, neither personal, worldly, or pertaining to the hereafter, or material or spiritual. For even if he has attained the highest spiritual rank, the person cannot counter the diabolical whisperings issuing