► (042) ◄ To the Chief of the General Police Headquarters in Ankara
To the Chief of the General Police Headquarters in Ankara
[If you wish to meet with a person who for twenty years has kept silent despite being held unofficially totally alone in solitary confinement subject to unprecedented oppression due to groundless suspicions, and to speak honestly and seriously, I shall say the following to you briefly.]
Firstly: It is an irrefutable, recorded proof that two courts having for two years scrutinized my works and letters of twenty years could find nothing that opposed the government or infringed public security, so acquitted all my books, both confidential and otherwise, together with myself.
Evidence that my life twenty years ago was spent devotedly for this country and nation was the commander-in-chief of the army's applauding my services as the commander of a militia force in the Great War, and the leaders of the Ankara government applauding my service to the national movement and the Parliament greeting me on seeing me there. This means that the torments meted out to me these twenty years are altogether arbitrary and illegal. In the course of these years I have spent forty religious festivals all alone in seclusion. Enough now! I'm at the door of the grave, so don't make me look to the world!
Moreover, as chief of the police headquarters, you should support my services. For as has been established by courts of law, when the lessons of the Risale-i Nur look to this world, they preserve with all their strength the foundations of public security and protect them against corruption and prevent revolution. The fact that the police of three provinces have understood this is proof that the Risale-i Nur's lessons resemble sacred moral police.
Recently, the officials have expended considerable effort to scare the people away from me, and I have understood that they did this in order to deter public attention, which I anyway do not deserve. So I tell you as I have told my closest brothers confidentially in letters, that I in no way accept public regard for my person; in fact, I reject it absolutely since it is opposed to our way and our sincerity. I have even offended some of my close brothers in connection with this. All I have accepted are the predictions made by certain persons of olden times that allude to the value of the Risale-i Nur, which expounds the All-Wise Qur'an's truth superlatively. As for myself, I have proved that I am merely a common servant. Even to suppose the impossible I had sought public attention, it would have aided public security and been beneficial for the police.