Büyük Cihad

The Master's Return to Emirdağ After the Master Bediüzzaman's trial in Istanbul ended with his acquittal, he returned to Emirdağ. On a day of the month of Ramadan in Emirdağ, when he went out, a chief constable and three armed gendarmes were sent to him, and as stated in the following paragraph, they offered him a hat to wear. Because of this, he was taken to the police station. In response, the Master wrote a letter and sent it to the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of the Interior. At the same time, he sent it to one of his students in Ankara, informing them to inform the relevant officials about the incident. The students in Ankara sent a copy of this letter to the widely circulated Büyük Cihad newspaper in Samsun. The article was published in Büyük Cihad under the title "The Greatest Proof" with an added footnote. Later, Nur students at Ankara and Istanbul Universities also wrote two or three articles and sent them to the Büyük Cihad newspaper, which published them. At this time, the Malatya incident occurred; a series of lies, slanders, and fabricated propaganda against the religious people began. Some individuals, influenced by these provocations, tried to find points of accusation from religious newspapers. In Samsun, due to the article titled "The Greatest Proof" and the articles written by the University Nur students, the newspaper's editor-in-chief and a Nur student who had sent some of these articles from Ankara were arrested and taken to court. Statements and opinions were published in newspapers against the development of Nurism in the country. Investigations were carried out in about twenty-five places in Turkey, and some of them led to lawsuits, aiming to sentence about six hundred Nur students. In the end, it was concluded that there was no accusation or evidence against the Risale-i Nur and the Nur students.

Tarihçe-i Hayat ·Isparta Hayati ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

In the Name of Allah, the Most High 1 I received an invitation from the Samsun Court of Inquiry and the Public Prosecutor to be transferred to the Samsun High Criminal Court regarding a complaint about the dissemination of a statement in the Büyük Cihad. They read it to me. I found only four points in it that seem to be of importance: First: The responsible editor of Büyük Cihad stated in court that: "Said Nursî sent me that article. I published it." The truth of this matter is as follows: When I was ill, my brothers from Emirdağ came to me. We discussed the unjust incident that had happened to me in Emirdağ. In a state of illness and anger, I said some things in the form of a statement to Ankara. My servant who was with me wrote it down. Then, through the efforts of the Nur students, it was sent to one or two Nur students in Ankara, and some pious officials were shown it, so that they would not cause me distress during my illness. It was sent. Some officials saw it. Then, without my knowledge, it was sent to the editor of Büyük Cihad by someone unknown to me. I do not know who sent it from that time until now. However, after it was published, a copy came here. Since I did not know the new alphabet, someone read it to me. I was satisfied and said, "May Allah be pleased with those who published it." Although I had abandoned politics thirty-five years ago, I was grateful to that purely religious journal Büyük Cihad and to its owner and editors for the sake of religion, and I said, "May Allah be pleased with them." Without my knowledge and without payment, that blessed newspaper was always sent to me. Second point: This concerns my being transferred to the Samsun High Criminal Court. I declare with certainty that I wanted to go there to visit my blessed brothers in the hereafter, especially the blessed brothers affiliated with the Büyük Cihad office and the Nur students. However, according to the doctors' reports, my condition is so weak that I cannot go even for five minutes in front of the court, which is the origin and basis of this matter, despite having been informed of this issue for one and a half years. By necessity, the public prosecutor and the investigating judge came to me.

Emirdağ Lâhikası - II ·Mektup 104 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

(Our master Bediüzzaman Said Nursî, this defense, which was published in the widely circulated Büyük Cihad newspaper in Samsun and where the trial was held there, he read it in the Istanbul court and the court ended with acquittal.) Our secret enemies, during this noble Ramadan, once again directed the judiciary against me. The matter is related to a secret communist committee. One person, entirely and completely against the law, sent three armed gendarmes and a chief constable to me while I was living alone in the mountains and the wilderness. They forced me to the police station, saying, "You are not wearing a hat on your head." I say to all the judiciaries that target justice: A person who commits lawlessness in five ways and breaks Islamic laws in five ways under the name of law must be accused of real lawlessness. However, because of their strange lawlessness and excuses, they have caused me spiritual suffering for two years. Therefore, they will certainly face the punishment in the great court of the Day of Judgment. Yes, what law in the world allows accusing a man who has been secluded for thirty-five years and has never walked through the markets or towns, saying, "You are not wearing a French cap"? For twenty-eight years, the five provinces, five courts, and the records of the five provinces have not been brought against him. Yet, especially this time, in the Istanbul criminal court, in front of more than a hundred police officers' eyes, while he walked on foot for two months and no police officer approached him, and the Court of Cassation decided that "wearing a hat is not mandatory," and since all women and those who walk with their heads uncovered, and all military personnel and officials with duties are not required to wear it and there is no benefit in wearing it, and since I have no official duty—which is an official uniform—those who wear it are also not held responsible. However, especially a man who is secluded and does not mingle with people, who during the noble Ramadan, in order not to be troubled by the worst illegal thing and not to remember the world, even avoids meeting his close friends, and even when he is seriously ill, to avoid being troubled by his body and heart, takes medicine to...

Emirdağ Lâhikası - II ·Mektup 99 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)