and ensuring the maintenance of public order; and with its striving to apply the Qur'an's fundamental law, "No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another" (Q 6: 164 etc.), that is, no one is answerable for another's sins; and with none of its millions of readers having received any harm; it has been proved to be a miracle of the Qur'an at this time and a means of repulsing calamities from this country and nation. Despite this, although for the past twenty-five years secret, subversive societies that act on account of anarchy have attempted through their intrigues to incite the courts against us, and five major courts in five provinces have been unable to find a single indictable point having studied all the parts of the Risale-i Nur in the greatest detail and have acquitted it; and although twenty judiciaries in twenty places have also been involved with it, they decided that it contained nothing which constituted an offence, and Afyon Court twice ruled that the treatises should be returned to their owners; for five years due to the deceptions, stratagems, and excuses of secret societies, that same court has postponed returning them, despite their return and free publication are required legally. For, as has been noted by some of the major police headquarters and members of the policeforce, no harm has been observed in the hundreds of thousands of copies of the Risale-i Nur and no disturbance or incident involving the Nur students has been recorded, which proves that like acceptable almsgiving, the Risale-i Nur serves as a foundation of public order and security, and proceeding from the essential truth of the Qur'an, is a means of preserving this country from material, moral, and spiritual dangers.

A Guide for Youth is a most beneficial part of the Risale-i Nur that has trained and instructed thousands of youths to the advantage of this country, nation, and public order. In connection with its trial, during which one hundred and twenty police tried to disperse the crowd, and despite his illness, our Master twice attended the court which unanimously ruled that both himself and A Guide for Youth be acquitted. But then, although all the treatises among which was the Guide had been acquitted by five courts and it should have been returned in fifteen days, fifteen months later it still has not been returned. It may therefore be said that the present events, which have caused the country losses of one and a half thousand million liras, have come about due to the above and due to Afyon Court delaying for five years the return of the treatises in spite of the decisions of the criminal courts of Denizli and Ankara, and due to the seizure of the personal copies, paid for by himself, of a person who in respect of belief, religion, and public order, is more beneficial than a hundred preachers for the region of Diyarbakır and the eastern provinces, thus preventing his useful services to the