mous benefit for here and the Islamic world, and that they work for its publication. They will then win the support of the religious people of this country and it will be for their own good.

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► (130) ◄ An Instructive Lesson and Cause of Wonder and Thanks

An Instructive Lesson and

Cause of Wonder and Thanks

With all their plots and intrigues, the inimical secret societies which for fifty years have opposed me, have, for the last twenty-nine years, tried to incite the government and judiciary against me, and employing every device, have attracted the attention of the courts, to induce them to investigate and scrutinize my one hundred and thirty books and thousands of letters. Although five of those courts ruled for definite acquittals and the return of all the books since they contain nothing reprehensible, and although in connection with the recent Malatya Incident, our covert enemies again tried to direct the attention of the government and judiciary towards us, twenty-three courts stated that they could find nothing that constituted an offence. [^68] Nothing was found despite there being so many hostile people searching for pretexts in the one hundred and thirty books of a person like me who has very few relations with the worldly and sacrifices nothing for a truth like the Risale-i Nur. And apart from a single matter, Islamic dress, in Eskişehir Court, it was taken to be a discretionary matter after an explanation had been given. Whereas certainly something would have been found in the ten letters of a single person like a Nur student who practises God-consciousness (takvà) if they were to be studied for ten days. Thus, the fact that the courts have been unable to pinpoint anything indictable in so voluminous a work infers that it is not devoid of two things:

[^68]:In Denizli all the parts of the Risale-i Nur were returned, and in Istanbul and in Ankara all the parts were returned, and in Tarsus and Mersin all the parts they got hold of were returned, and Ankara gave the decision to acquit and return all the treatises it had scrutinized for four months, and the Court of Appeal four times ratified its acquittal and the return of the books, and Afyon, which contested the matter most, twice gave the decision after four years for their acquittal and return. All this shows that the courts executed their duties completely justly, and that these fresh events have no importance. [Author]

Certainly, it is either divine providence and protection, which shows its mercy and compassion for the Nur students, the servants of the Qur'an, so that all the courts that have dealt with us have acted with wondrous justice