who have found the key to Islamic brotherhood will make heard to the Islamic world this manifestation of the Qur'an's miraculousness.

Second Means: Sixty-five years ago I wanted to go to the University of al-Azhar. I said to myself, it is the medrese of the Islamic World, and I intended to study there. But it was not to be. However, in his mercy, Almighty God imparted an idea to my spirit: just as al-Azhar University is a universal medrese in Africa, however much larger Asia is than Africa, a place of learning, an Islamic University, proportionately larger is needed in Asia, It would both prevent racialism corrupting the Muslim peoples; for example, the nations of Arabia, India, Iran, Caucasia, Turkestan, and Kurdistan; and through Islamic nationhood, which is real, positive, sacred, and universal, true nationhood, it would manifest the total unfolding of the fundamental principle of the Qur'an: "Verily, the believers are brothers" (Q 49:10); and it would reconcile the sciences of philosophy and those of religion, and make peace between European civilization and the truths of Islam. It would also unite the people of the secular educational establishments and those of the medreses, the religious schools, so that they should assist each other. In the same way that I have worked for a full fifty-five years for the truths of the Risale-i Nur, so also have I worked for such a university in the centre of the eastern provinces between India, Arabia, Iran, Caucasia, and Turkestan — a university in the style of al-Azhar called the Medresetü'z-Zehra, which would be both a modern secular school and a religious school. The first to appreciate its value was Sultan Reşad (May God grant him mercy), who donated twenty thousand gold liras, just for its construction, Then when I returned from captivity in the Great War, in Ankara one hundred and sixty-three deputies out of the two hundred present agreed to allot one hundred and fifty thousand liras to the university at that time when funds were so scarce, and put their signatures to it. Mustafa Kemal was one of them. That is to say, through assigning to it what is almost equivalent to five million liras at the present time, the deputies demonstrated the surpassing importance of founding such a university. A number of them signed it, even, who were extremely negligent in religion and were in favour of westernizing and stripping off all traditions. Only two of them said: "We are now in greater need of westernization and civilization than traditional learning and the sciences of religion." I replied to them:

"Even if to suppose the impossible you were in no need of them, as is indicated by the fact that most of the prophets have appeared in Asia and the East and most of the philosophers in the West, it is the sense of religion rather than the effects of science and philosophy that will be the spring of true progress of Asia. If you do not take this natural law into consideration,