The Seventh: "He says that there is a renegade collective personality which incites dissension and teaches it, and its spectre has appeared. But he does not say who it is." The experts' committee put this forward as a chargeable offence. Do the satans among jinn and men ever cease to pursue their activities in the world? They are perpetually busy doing evil and getting others to do it, so those ill-informed experts failed to understand that they are attacking us pointlessly. Since by using the word "collective" (mânevî) he meant non-physical, non-material, and he did not state who it was, those who say they will send him to court for insulting a "non-physical" man; that is, insulting a Satan, for which no court in the world could try him, are uttering complete, meaningless nonsense.

The Eighth: They show to be an offence "the author's repeatedly and insistently explaining and claiming that he relies on the bases of the Risale-i Nur, which proceeds and issues directly from the miraculousness of the Qur'an of Miraculous Exposition's meanings (i'caz-ı mânevî) and thus bases his propaganda on religious evidences and persuasion."

As affirmed by all the readers of the Risale-i Nur, and particularly by famous scholars in Egypt, Damascus, Pakistan, and the Directorate of Religious Affairs, "The Risale-i Nur is a true commentary on the Qur'an, and belongs to the Qur'an, and consists of flashes from it." In which case, the reason for this error will be sought at the supreme tribunal at the Last Judgement, from those who show the above to be infringements of the law.

"God suffices us, and He is the best Disposer of Affairs" (Q 3:173).

S a i d   N u r s i,

who is ill, ∗∗∗

► (089) ◄ To the First Criminal Court

[The objections presented in 1952 to the court in Istanbul conducting the A Guide for Youth trial, in reply to the experts' committee.]

To the First Criminal Court

In connection with the printing and publication of A Guide for Youth, which is a part of the Risale-i Nur and due to which court proceedings have been opened against its author, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, we have studied the report of the experts' committee set up to investigate the work and seen that it completely distorts the facts and reflects the irreligious views of the Islam's enemies.