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[A reply to the fabricated news that our Master was touring the villages; it is nothing to worry about.]

A statement we presented to the police in Isparta, where our Master Said Nursi has been staying as a guest for the last two years.

1. Our Master Said Nursi has considered himself to be a guest of the police in all the provinces and towns of Anatolia in which he has stayed over the past thirty years, and the members of those police forces have always treated him kindly and protectively. Our Master began to compose the Risale-i Nur, a genuine, brilliant commentary on the Qur'an, thirty years ago in Isparta, and initiated a truly effective way of serving the truths of belief. One benefit of this service, which is turned to the hereafter, is its instilling in the heart by reason of belief, a permanent sense that restrains from evil. It is due to this that it is a means of maintaining public order. He also disseminated everywhere the Qur'anic principle which ensures true justice and is derived from the verse, "No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another" (Q 6:164 etc.), meaning that no one is answerable for another's errors. According to this and the principle that the rights of one innocent person may not be sacrificed for even a hundred wrongdoers, it is completely opposed to the Qur'an's injunctions to cause harm to ninety innocents because of ten criminals. And despite the injustices visited on himself, he stated that for the good of the Islamic nation he would sacrifice his life in the hereafter, let alone his life in this world, and he does say this.

As affirmed by those patriotic persons who are concerned with social tranquillity, by reason of both the Risale-i Nur's instruction in the truths of belief and the Qur'anic truths in his court defences which resulted in acquittals, our Master, who teaches those truths — which guide society to happiness in this world and the next — is the chief means of preserving public order and ensuring general security. He has been scrutinized in every respect by numerous investigations these last thirty years, yet absolutely nothing pertaining to him has been found to be indictable. Indeed, following the acquittals and his works being granted complete freedom, the works are spreading everywhere and meeting with approval and applause in Anatolia and in the centres of the Islamic world and some places in the West.

In the face of such aggressive, corrupting currents as communism, which opposing religion, morality, and tradition, have overrun with their destruction half Europe and China and which threaten the whole world and force governments to take preventative measures, and faced too by covert,