criminal societies which strive to create anarchy, our Master Said Nursi's works, the Risale-i Nur, have performed a disinterested, effective, and widespread service. Holding up as witnesses the good conduct of its readers, which with the spread of its hundreds of thousands of copies, have reached similar numbers, and citing the fact that, as affirmed by the police, not one of the Nur students has disturbed public order, we say that the Risale-i Nur is a Qur'anic barrier which will halt those destructive currents. Fair-minded members of the police attest to this. Let alone the benefits of service to belief that look to the hereafter, at one time our Master explained as follows a vital benefit for the nation, and time has shown just how right he was. He said then that there were two awesome currents that were threatening the happiness of this country and nation in respect of both this life and the afterlife.

The First was the irreligious current that had appeared to the north and was threatening to overrun this country; it had to be countered with the Qur'an's truths and the lights of belief, For since its destruction was moral and spiritual, the struggle against it had to be conducted by moral and spiritual means. The Risale-i Nur, which consists of flashes from the Qur'an's truths, could oppose that current of misguidance as a repairer of the force of an atom bomb, and it did oppose it.

Secondly: In order to dispel the Islamic world's hostility towards the Turkish nation, which for a thousand years was the standard-bearer and heroic army of Islam, it is to re-establish the idea of the Turks being its standard-bearer, as they were in former times. It is to perform a crucially important service for this nation's happiness by in this way winning for it four hundred million true brothers. By disseminating the truths of belief in this country, the Risale-i Nur has demonstrated this tremendous benefit in fact.

A Risale-i Nur student halted the Russians' propaganda in the eastern border regions with the treatises of the Risale-i Nur and the homilies he derived from them. In this way, a single student performed the services of an army for the country, nation, and public order. Since the aims and purposes of the Risale-i Nur look only to the hereafter and serve belief seeking divine pleasure alone, it is also most beneficial for the life of society by reason of the worldly benefits it reaps.

2. The following facts leave no need to say anything further: due to the thirty to forty years of isolation, solitude, illness, and imprisonment he has suffered, our Master cannot endure to meet with people unnecessarily and from the evening to the following morning does not allow even his assistants to approach him, and so has offended his friends who have come to