the sciences of belief, and is approved and praised by the official religious scholars despite its offending them and challenging the former government, and has been acquitted by the courts. Evidence for this is the general peace and security it has ensured for this country and nation due to which the internal disturbances that have occurred in the Islamic countries, especially Morocco, Egypt, Syria, and Iran, have not happened here. Thus, the fact that the Risale-i Nur ensures public security despite there being more reasons for disturbances here, shows that the founding of the Eastern University will be a step towards bringing peace and reconciliation to humanity. For since at the present time the damage is moral and spiritual, a moral and spiritual atom bomb is needed to repair it. Decisive evidence for this is the fact that the Risale-i Nur — the source and seed of the university — has formed a barrier these last thirty years against the assaults of misguidance, scientistic philosophy, and irreligion. It has acted as a moral and spiritual atom bomb repairing the moral and spiritual destruction.

The Third: As a centre that will attract the world of Islam and all Asia, the eastern university is of paramount importance and if expenditure on its construction was sixty thousand million liras rather than sixty million, it would still be worth it.

Since the Yeni Ulus is a paper of the opposition, it wants to conceal this matter and smear with accusations of reactionism some of the leading officials of the new government who are working at it. The question, however, is one of progress, development, and general peace. Similarly to such marks of Islam as the Arabic call to prayer and religious instruction, an educational institution of that kind will strengthen this Islamic government considerably. Indeed, because of it, the government will be applauded in the future and praised in the history books.

This great service and the enlightenment that will result from the project's realization will afford an unprecedented brilliance to the Democrat government that will shine for all eternity and will gain for it international recognition.

The Nur students who are attending on our Master

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It was indeed a good thing that our case was postponed and transferred to Ankara Court. Now, both Isparta Court, and the return of Molla Hamid's books in Van and Mehmet Kaya's in Diyarbakir, and Afyon, all are look-