internal order and violation of security thus casting into danger ninety innocents on account of ten criminals, is a means of attracting divine wrath. Since in these uncertain times, Almighty God has paved the way for a number of truly religious people to come to power, present circumstances warn that they should take this fundamental law of the Qur'an as a basis of action for themselves, to shield themselves against their malicious enemies.
Islam's Second Fundamental Law is the Hadith, "A people's ruler is its servant," [^57] which means that officialdom is service and should not lead to oppression and egotistical domination. But at the present time egotism has burgeoned due to the absence of Islamic training and deficient worship. And because officialdom has been made into ranks for the practice of arbitrary domination rather than service, justice cannot be administered and is in essence corrupted, like performing the prayers in any direction without the ablutions. And the people's rights are totally violated. The people's rights (hukuk-u ibad) do not become hukukullah (that is, they are not sanctioned), that they may be rights. On the contrary, they are the cause of selfish injustices.
[^57]:al-Maghribī, Jāmi' al-Shaml, i, 450, no. 1668; al-'Ajlūnī, Kashf al-Khafā', ii, 463. [Tr.]
Adnan Menderes has now said that they are going to enact whatever is required by the religion of Islam. But there is a strong possibility that in absolute opposition to the two above-mentioned fundamental laws, two awesome currents will go on the offensive in order to deceive the people with substantial bribes and will pave the way for foreign intervention.
The First Assault: In opposition to the first fundamental law, this has slaughtered forty innocent people due to one criminal and set fire to a village. Such absolute despotism bribes officials, granting them power and control and gratifying their souls, while religious lovers of freedom are persecuted.
The Second Assault: This is apparently a sort of nationalism which renounces the sacred nationhood of Islam, and like the previous one is able to trample the rights of a hundred innocents due to one criminal, but in reality, with its streak of racialism, strives against both the religious, freedom-loving Democrats, and the members of other races who constitute seventy per cent of this country's population, and the wretched Turks, and the policies followed by the Democrats, producing only a racist brotherhood as an inauspiciously pleasurable bribe for good-for-nothing egotists. Out of their drunkenness they do not perceive the extraordinary danger of