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In His Name, be He glorified!

"A Complaint to the Supreme Tribunal," my last word in a most important court case, has been published several times in the biography, and during the trial was sent to various offices in Ankara, the Court of Appeal, and to the chief judges. Now, because a strange, minor example of the incident that was the reason for the complaint has again happened to me, I am describing it as a short addendum to the complaint.

For three reasons, two days ago I visited Konya, which formerly was the medrese and learned centre of Anatolia, and I was very eager to go there. But this gave rise to a number of false allegations.

One: Despite their impecuniousness and the expenses, two of my true Nur brothers went to the court in Izmir. On their return, they visited me. So partly in order to save them from further expense, I took them in my private car as far as Konya.

The Second Reason: I intended to visit my brother and his children, who of all my brothers and relations is the only one still alive. He studied with me for fifteen years and worked as a mufti for nearly twenty years, and apart from once, I had not seen him for forty years.

The Third: I went to visit Mawlana Jalal al-Dīn, who, like Imam Rabbani and Imam al-Ghazali, is one of the chief masters of both the Old Said and the New Said and with whom I am closely concerned since his disciples, the Mevlevis, everywhere take an interest in the Risale-i Nur. However, as is written in the piece in the biography about my not meeting with people, just as Almighty God makes me ill to prevent my accepting gifts, so since visiting and being treated with great respect is a sort of gift, I lost my voice and through divine providence was prevented from speaking. As a result I did not go to my brother's house even, that I could have spoken.

I should have remained in Konya for at least two or three days, but in an hour I performed the prayers, and returned. While there, as though some- thing had happened, they published it in the newspapers. I was treated as though I had met with thousands of people, although I had not even been able to go to my brother's house to visit him and had anyway been unable to speak.

It is true that the orders given to the police were a serious mistake, because of that situation. But because those orders were congruent with my serious indisposition, I was not upset by the police; on the contrary, I for- gave them. "May God be pleased with you!" I said, and I thanked them.