could not deceive a child even. Everyone knows what they are trying to achieve by employing such fictions.

It is lacking in conscience a hundred times over to put in the public eye with politicking fabrications an Islamic author who has never been to Nazilli and knows no one there, and for forty years has declared: "I seek refuge with God from Satan and politics" and has severed all relations with politics; has dedicated his life to the cause of saving belief through the Qur'an and the truths of belief and is quite unconcerned with any worldly affairs outside that; and who is eighty-seven years old and virtually bedridden, and having been poisoned on numerous occasions has come close to death and declares himself to be at the door of the grave, and is in great need of rest and peace of mind. It is terrible cruelty to invent such lies, and a low-minded iniquity.

To impute prophethood to any religious scholar on false pretexts is a direct attack on Islam and treachery towards the Qur'an.

Throughout his life, our Master Said Nursi has adhered to the Prophet's (UWBP) practices (Sunna) and has defied the death sentence so as not to act contrarily to it and has composed a work of one hundred and thirty parts in order to revive the Sunna and preserve belief. Risking his life, he engaged in the struggle against the vicious enemies of religion, and was finally victorious. Yes, thousands of copies have been published of a work he wrote about following the Prophet's (UWBP) practices. And his book, The Miracles of Muhammad (UWBP), is an outstanding work about the Most Noble Messenger (UWBP), the Glory of the Universe, and his being the true and final prophet. While that is the truth, it is understood just how far from truth and right, and fairness and conscience are those who level such accusations at Said Nursi.

There is a strong possibility that another reason for this affair was that because the Risale-i Nur gives great importance to family life and ensures that women pass their lives chastely, honourably, modestly, and happily, it is very popular with them, For example, some people hostile to religion saw a few articles for women that had been published and they launched an attack on account of communism on some cooked up pretexts. But they will in no way succeed. For contrary to their expectations, the Risale-i Nur is spreading wondrously among both men and women.

His students who are in attendance on him due to his illness,

Tahirî, Zübeyir, Ceylân, Bayram,

Sungur, Rüştü ∗∗∗