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gather around that tree of light and the rising everlasting rays of the Risale-i Nur will perpetuate your work in even more brilliant and magnificent form.

As the Risale-i Nur's interpreter, with the services you have performed for belief shining on the horizons of Islam, you are the chief guide of the present age!

Esteemed herald of the Noble Qur'an in the fourteenth Muhammadan (UWBP) century! Supreme devotee who has responded with the Qur'an's light in the face of the awesome darkness of this ghastly age! Our beloved heroic Master, who has published everywhere with the pens of his hundreds of thousands of students the hundreds of thousands of copies of the Risale-i Nur and has erected a Qur'anic barrier against irreligion and absolute disbelief!

With this sacred service of yours, which is a mercy for all the worlds and brings solace and deliverance to humanity, you give the good news to the believers of the great festival of Islam's supremacy which will embrace all the continents and the signs of which are just appearing. We congratulate you on this with all our spirits, and beseech Almighty God for your long life, and kiss your hands respectfully.

The Nur Students of Ankara University ∗∗∗

► (098) ◄ A Truth About the Life of Our Society Which Was Imparted to My Heart

A Truth About the Life of Our Society

Which Was Imparted to My Heart

There are now four parties in this country: one is the People's Party (Halk Partisi), another the Democrat (Demokrat Partisi), another the Nation (Millet Partisi), and the other Islamic Unity (İttihad-ı İslam Partisi). In the event of sixty or seventy per cent of the people being completely religious, the Islamic Unity Party may assume a leading role in present politics. But due to the deficient Islamic training of recent times the latter party would have to exploit religion for politics in the face of the malpractices of present politics, and should therefore not assume such a role.

As for the People's Party, since behind the screen of the law it has in truth given extraordinary, pleasurable, and widespread bribes to officials, and since together with all its own crimes of twenty-eight years the crimes of others and the evils of the Unionists (İttihadçılar) and their Masonic

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13th International Bediuzzaman Symposium

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