the country and nation. And following their predecessors, the courts of Aydın and Nazilli will exonerate the Nur students.

At present there are numerous positive and relieving developments: the Risale-i Nur being very favourably received everywhere in this country and also in the Islamic world and Europe, and the Turks' moves towards rebuilding unity with the Islamic world successfully producing worldly results unintended by the Nur students, and the government according a high value to Islam, religion, and freedom of conscience and its endeavouring to repair the destruction caused by the former government, and to pass a law dismissing those who aggress against sacred matters. We have absolutely no doubt that this baseless matter, which has appeared at the same time as the above, has been instigated by persons opposed to the government and to Islam.

The evidence refuting some of their lies:

Those unprincipled persons clearly calumniated our Master Said Nursi by saying that he "lives like a king on charity and donations." Whereas he is someone who refused his uncle's soup even, has never become indebted to anyone, and attaching no importance to the five thousand liras he was given, refused it and returned it, and has never in his life broken his rule of independence even when suffering the severest oppression and deprivation, in this way intending to preserve the dignity of Islam and honour of religion.

Yes, our Master's rule of not accepting gifts has been established by both his eighty-year lifetime, and the documents presented in numerous courts of law over thirty years. It has been clearly observable by friend and foe alike, We leave it to everyone with conscience to judge just how malicious and ill-willed are those who make such accusations at a time everyone has become aware of this clear fact.

Thanks to the justice of the Ankara Court, our Master Said Nursi's Risale-i Nur is now being printed. He gives as subsistence to those Nur students who have dedicated their lives to the Risale-i Nur and are unable to support themselves, a share of the profits gained from the sale of its books. As everyone now knows, he himself lives with the maximum frugality and contentment. We put forward his eighty-year lifetime as truthful evidence that he has always lived extraordinarily thriftily and frugally.

Another obvious lie given out by those newspapers which pursue plans to turn the people against the Democrat government is their distortion of a conversation between two innocent men in Nazilli about Ramadan and their twisting it into something political like "establishing an Islamic state." It was a naive calumny cooked up by those political imposters that