my door smashed in a way that I had never in my life seen in order to make me angry and provoke an incident; and in order to insult and degrade me, illegally and maliciously conducted a search and seized my copy of the Qur'an and some Arabic writings as though they were subversive papers. In domineering fashion he told the officials here to tell two gendarmes to force me to put on a peaked cap in order to make a public spectacle of me and to take me to have my statement taken, and to detain anyone who attempted to intervene. He said this during an important meeting when they were reading my absolutely true statement. There is no doubt at all that a malicious plan is being followed to make me angry with insults and abuse, so as to disturb public peace and security.

Unending thanks be to Almighty God that He has bestowed on me a state of mind whereby I would sacrifice my dignity and honour a thousand times over for the well-being of the wretched people of this country and to repulse calamities from them. So I decided to bear patiently all they did to me and the insults and abuse they intended. I am ready to sacrifice my life and honour a thousand times over for this nation's security and particularly for the worldly advantages and happiness in the next life of innocent children and the esteemed elderly and the wretched sick and poor.

One indication of their blowing up this matter out of all proportion is this: the governor of Afyon and chief of police coming five times in ten days and the public prosecutor coming once because of a sick, elderly, weak exile like myself who is all alone; and five aeroplanes following me for two days when I went out into the countryside; and five secret police being sent to join those who already spy on me and follow all my movements; and official orders being given to all the post offices to confiscate my correspondence; all this shows that they have been deluded into imagining an incident ten times more serious than the Shaykh Said and Menemen incidents, They must have made mountains out of molehills since they have adopted such a position. They supposed that I am like I was in my old life and that they could anger me by humiliating me. But they were wrong; we are striving with all our strength to build a Qur'anic barrier against anarchy, like the barrier of Dhu'l-Qarnayn. Those who harrass us are pre- paring the ground for anarchy and even for communism.

Indeed, if like in my early life in order to preserve the dignity of learning I had refused to accept insults, and my true duty had not been the next life alone and to save Muslims from the eternal nothingness of death; and like those who attack us we had worked solely for this world and negative politics; then those working on account of anarchy could have provoked an incident like the Shaykh Said and Menemen incidents.