The judiciary here has twice acquitted those books and handed down the decision to return them, but despite this, for a number of reasons, they have remained in captivity. I inform you that sometimes in their entirety and sometimes in part, five courts of law have given the decision for their return and five police headquarters have handed them over to their owners. God willing, your justice and good will will ensure that they are returned this time too.

S a i d   N u r s i,

who is ill. ∗∗∗

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In His Name, be He glorified!

Esteemed Adnan Menderes !

Although our Master Bediuzzaman has given up politics these last thirty-five years, we members of the Democrat Party and Nur students are certain that he is now working with all his strength, his students, and his teachings to keep the Democrat Party in power, for the sake of the Qur'an and Islam and this country. We asked him why he is doing this and he replied:

"If the Democrat Party falls, either the People's Party or the Nation Party will come to power. But because of the crimes of the corrupt section of the Unionists (ittihadçılar) and because the greater part of the policies that the Republic's first leader was compelled by the Treaty of Sèvres and other political machinations to enact over fifteen years have been blamed on the People's Party, the noble Turkish nation will on no account voluntarily bring it to power. For if the People's Party comes to power, the communists will gain dominance over the country under cover of it. But Muslims can never be communists; at most, they become anarchists. Muslims cannot be compared to the Westerners. Hence, so that that party which thus forms a serious danger to our society and country, should not come to power, I am trying to protect the Democrat Party in the name of the Qur'an, Islam, and this country.

"As for the members of the Nation Party, if they take only Islam as the basis of their programme, [^67] they would assist the Democrat Party, and not oppose it and object to it and try to win power themselves. And if they take

[^67]:The nation of Islam suffices everything. If religion and language are shared, there is one nation. And there is still one nation if religion is shared. [Authors]