has lit up the universe for fourteen centuries and with its sacred, divine rules, illuminated the millions of your forefathers for a thousand years and guided them to Paradise, and belittles your mothers, grandmothers, and sisters, who have received the light of its training and preserved their fine morals and honour, and through their dress, conduct, and lives have demonstrated the true meaning of womanhood and true beauty. Declare that you reject such a document!

And now, those slanderers have seized the work of a champion of Islam who is eighty years old, suffering severe illness due to poison, and has been subjected to torments in prison because of his services to religion the work called A Guide for Youth, which teaches belief, high morals, and virtue to the youth in order to protect them from the immorality and vice that all the intellectuals and many educationalists and patriots are now complaining of, and makes them into useful members of the country and nation, and as the most powerful force for securing public order and security, serves this nation's happiness. They have seized this work and so as to convict its esteemed author, they are saying this:

"Bediuzzaman supports women wearing Islamic dress. He depicts those women who parade the streets half naked as troops under Satan's command in the war against Islam. He considers it a sin for women to participate in social life with bare legs. He believes that the immodest dress of the present is an obstacle to marriage and encourages immorality. According to him, what beautifies women and is their true adornment in social life, is not to exhibit their bodies but to conduct themselves in accordance with the norms and training of the Qur'an and Islam. He favours religious instruction. He says that thanks to the instruction given by the Risale-i Nur, convicts in prison are reformed in a space of two weeks, as is testified to by the prisons of Denizli and Afyon and their directors, guards, and judicial authorities. It is Bediuzzaman's opinion that youth who fall victim to alluring temptations can be saved through religious truths and the Risale-i Nur's teachings about belief."

They condemn him because of these ideas and say he should be convicted. And they are the professors and lecturers in law given the name of the experts' committee who teach the young people of this country justice, right, and freedom.

Judges! You, as the representatives of true justice, defend public law and national honour! If it is accepted that the instruction in belief and fine morals contained in A Guide for Youth constitutes an indictable offence, as asserted by the experts' committee's report, and its author is deemed guilty before the law, you have to concur with their insulting disparagement of