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[A letter written by our Master to the Prime Minister, Adnan Menderes, who approves of and appreciates the services rendered by the Risale-i Nur to the country, nation, and Islam.]

In His Name, be He glorified!

I would have liked to speak with a champion of Islam like Adnan Menderes, but my circumstances do not allow it, for I am very ill and not concerned with politics. I have therefore written this letter to speak in my place, instead of a face-to-face conversation.

I am going to elucidate a few very brief principles for Adnan Menderes, the champion of Islam:

The First is one of Islam's many fundamental laws and is a true meaning of the verse, "No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another" (Q 6:164 etc.). It is as follows:

No one, neither friends nor relations, can be held responsible for another's crime. Whereas the partisanship of present party politics causes people to acquiesce in and consent to numerous innocents suffering harm on account of a single criminal. Due to a single criminal's crime, the supporters and relatives of the innocent are also maligned and humiliated; and because this multiplies the crime a hundredfold, it gives rise to terrible hatred and enmity; and breeding malice and rancour, it forces retaliation in kind. This a poison that completely overturns the life of society and prepares the ground for the intervention of external enemies. It is understood that the events and crises experienced in Iran and Egypt arose from action of this kind. But the situation with them is not the situation here; with us, it is comparatively less severe, only one per cent. God protect us! If it had been like that here, it would have been terrible indeed.

The sole solution for this danger is to make Islamic brotherhood and primary Islamic nationhood the foundation of that force, for the protection of innocent people and to ensure that the crimes of criminals remain restricted to themselves.

The above fundamental law is also the foundation of public peace and security. For example, true justice and the fundamental law of public order and security demands that if one innocent person and ten criminals are found in a house or on a ship, the house or ship should not be attacked so that the innocent person may be saved and no harm comes to him. But when he is saved ...

Thus, according to this Qur'anic fundamental law, the disturbance of