turning into enmity the true brotherhood which is a thousand times more beneficial than the thrills they get from that racist comradeship. For example, racialism causes to be lost for the trivial worldly benefits of four hundred useless loafers, the moral and spiritual assistance received every day from the universal prayer, "O God! Forgive all believing men and women," which is recited by four hundred million true brothers with a sense of Islamic nationhood. This is a grave danger for both this country, and the government, and the religious Democrats, and the Turks, and those who pursue it are not true Turks. The noble Turks avoid such errors. It is quite clear from their actions that these two groups are attempting to take advantage of everything and to overturn the religious Democrats, and they are being made to do so. The sole solution in the face of these opponents and the internal and external enemies and their destruction, which absolutely has to be implemented, is to rely on the unshakeable power of the Qur'anic reality, with which forty Companions of the Prophet (UWBP) challenged and prevailed over forty states and which for one thousand four hundred years has had three or four million students, and to depend on the worldly pleasures and pleasures of everlasting happiness in the hereafter yielded by that reality. Otherwise those pitiless internal and external enemies of yours will magnify one error you commit, and adding to it the crimes committed by the supporters of the former regime, will load them all on you, just as they did to others before you.

This constitutes a danger for both you and the country and nation the harms of which would be irreparable. In return for your services and your accepting these facts, I myself and our Nurju brothers will pray to Almighty God for your success in your works for the good of Islam and for your preservation from the above-mentioned dangers.

The Third: Another fundamental law related to the social life of Islam is the Hadith, "The believers are like a well-built structure with one firmly supporting the other." [^58] That is, to forget internal hostilities in the face of the aggression of external enemies and to support one another. Even the most primitive tribes have understood the advantages of this fundamental law, for when attacked by an enemy from outside, they desist from fighting against one another until the enemy is repulsed, even if the member of one tribe has killed the father or brother of someone belonging to another tribe, and they support one another. So it is with a thousand regrets that we say that incidents occur in which, as a consequence of the partisanship that

[^58]:Bukhārī, Ṣalāt, 88; Adab, 36; Maẓālim, 5; Muslim, Birr, 65; Tirmidhī, Birr, 18; Nasā'ī, Zakāt, 67; Musnad, iv, 405, 409. [Tr.]