An Extraordinary Event
An Extraordinary Event
15.04.1957
Especially recently, our Master Said Nursi has been afflicted with a condition due to which he will speak to absolutely no one, If he speaks with us, his assistants, for more than two minutes even, he is overcome by thirst. Some days he goes out into the countryside for fresh air and to find relief from this extraordinary condition. He goes nowhere where there are other people. He cannot go the mosque, even. On leaving his room he immediately gets into his private car [^70] together with one or two of his helpers. Sometimes, once or twice a week, he goes to the house in Eğirdir he has rented, and remaining several hours, he returns to his house in Isparta.
[^70]:Mostly when our Master goes out into the countryside, he pays the petrol money and then gets in the car. [Authors]
Today we again went to Eğirdir. We had just come to his house there when we encountered someone. He ordered us to return to Isparta immediately. We did not know who the person was. Later we understood that it was the new kaymakam, who a few days previously had arrived from a town in Van Province. Just when we were going to demand, "What law or instructions allow you to block our way and prevent our entering the town?" and to protest at his arbitrary, illegal move, our Master Said Nursi prevented us. He also ordered us to turn back in order to prevent an incident occurring due to this illegal act, for it was market day and crowded, and the people of the town and local villagers are devoted to him and hold him in the greatest respect.
Our opinion concerning this is as follows: although our Master Said Nursi has in no way been involved in politics and does not even meet with people, the facts that the Risale-i Nur is extremely popular in Anatolia and the eastern provinces, and also in the Islamic world, and its large collections have been printed in Ankara with the government's permission and backing, and it has been acquitted by all the courts, have all led the large numbers of people who are attached to the Risale-i Nur to support the Democrat Party. Since this is particularly open and obvious in the eastern provinces, certain covert atheists and supporters of the former party laid plans to poison relations between the Nur students and the government, and they used the new kaymakam here to incite such an incident and to cause a disturbance of the peace.