some instances of good in their postponement, one of which may be as follows:
With the Risale-i Nur beginning to show its effect abroad in the Islamic world and to spread, and with the politicians here inclining towards westernization a little as a bribe to Europe, to grant the Risale-i Nur complete freedom as is supposed, would cause doubts abroad in the Islamic world concerning its true sincerity. This would either force the Nurjus to be hypocritical, or would seriously diminish the Risale-i Nur's value due to the idea that they show no concern about those inclining to westernization and thus display weakness. The postponement allays such suspicions and proves that for the past thirty years the Nurjus have not bowed before anything that is opposed to the marks of Islam. ∗∗∗
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In His Name, be He glorified!
Some Notes Our Master Dictated,
and We Wrote Down
The underlying reason for the two trials this year need to be explained. The reason for the trial here was this:
Fifty years ago, I interpreted a Hadith about the Sufyan and the brimmed hat. Then much later the courts said that this was an attack on a commander. One reason for the severity of the sentence handed down to me by Afyon Court was shown to be that attack. But it had not been written at that time and the commander was not alive. Although the hundred million Muslims living under British rule repudiated both it and its religion, this was not held to be an offence. And the newspapers now strike at least twenty times more severely than I did with that Hadith at that commander, at those former leaders and commanders, yet they are not charged with offences and are free to do so. Fifty years ago I cast the stone of a Hadith and twenty years later it struck the head of a commander and broke it. He is now dead and gone and his relations with the government and this world are severed. Whereas now the assaults on the leaders of the former party (RPP) as deputies or officials and although they are connected with the government, are perhaps a hundred times greater than the slap the Risale-i Nur dealt, but the newspapers are free to publish them.
The truth about the books being seized is this: only one or two pages of