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The reason I did not respond to the indictment is to preserve the honor and not betray the three just courts that acquitted us. Because those courts, after thoroughly examining every detail of the issues in the indictment, have declared us innocent. To disregard their acquittal would be an affront to the honor of the judiciary. Second point: The prosecution office, through its indictment, accuses us of a few issues within thousands of pages, assigning meanings that we never intended. However, those writings are found in the major collections of Nur. The scholars of Cairo's Al-Azhar University, the great scholars of Damascus, the learned teachers of Mecca and Medina, and the scholars of Aleppo and others, especially the learned scholars of the Presidency of Religious Affairs, have examined them and given them their full approval and endorsement with great admiration. I was surprised and dismayed to see some scholarly objections in this indictment. Even if there are some mistakes, if these are real, they are mistakes that thousands of scholars did not notice or object to. Therefore, they cannot be considered as crimes, but only as scholarly errors. Moreover, three courts have acquitted us and all of the Risale-i Nur. Only the Eskisehir Court, citing fifteen words from the Twenty-Fourth Letter regarding a women's dress issue, imposed a minor penalty on me and fifteen percent of my friends. In my objection letter that I submitted to you, I wrote that if there is any justice on earth, I would not accept this judgment, which is based on the rulings of three hundred and fifty thousand interpretations. The prosecution office, like drawing water from a thousand rivers, has tried to turn some sentences from books and letters written over twenty years with its intelligence against us. However, in this matter, it is not three but perhaps five or six courts that acquitted us of this alleged crime. I would like to remind the prosecution office that I must not offend the honor of those just courts.

Şualar ·On Dorduncu Sua ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

Although I have not written to my brother in my homeland for twenty years, the indictment accused me of violating security and, by reviving the old cliché with the help of cerbeze, claimed that I was "against the revolution." In response to this, we say: The fact that twenty thousand people, who have read twenty thousand copies of Nur with interest and acceptance, have not been recorded by six courts and the records of ten provinces as having committed any act of violating security shows that the authorities are considering our case with only one possibility out of thousands of possibilities, as if it were an absolute certainty. However, if it were only one possibility out of two or three, and if the act were not observed, then there would be no crime at all. Moreover, it is not even one possibility out of thousands, but perhaps every person, and those who accuse me could kill many people, disrupt security and public order as anarchists or communists, and thus commit acts of violating security. Therefore, using such extremely strange and exaggerated possibilities at the scene of the incident is an act of betrayal against justice and the law. Also, in every government, there are opponents. Merely opposing a government in thought is not a crime. The government looks outward, not into the heart. And especially those who have rendered numerous beneficial and useful services to the country and the people, who do not interfere in social life, who live in complete seclusion, and whose works have been met with the highest praise and appreciation in the most important centers of the Islamic world—such a person as the SHAHID—those who make such strange and baseless accusations against him are worried that he might be unknowingly used for anarchism or even communism.

Şualar ·On Dorduncu Sua ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

The second charge in the indictment is as follows: We obtained acquittal from three courts and forty years ago, when explaining a miraculous interpretation of a hadith, the Grand Mufti Sheikhulislam Zembilli Ali Efendi said, "There is no permission, even jokingly, to put a hat on one's head," and all the Grand Muftis and all the Islamic scholars did not permit it. However, when the common Muslim people were compelled to wear it, those great scholars did not assist them, and they were in danger, that is, either to abandon their religion or to rebel. But forty years ago, the fifth paragraph of the fifth Suva said, "The hat will come on the head and will say to go to prostration. But the faith in the head will also bring that hat to prostration and will make it a Muslim, insha'Allah." This statement saved the common Muslim people from both rebellion and revolution and from abandoning their faith and religion out of fear. No law has ever proposed such things to the Jews. For twenty years, six governments did not compel me to wear it. Also, all the officials in their offices, women, children, and those in the mosques and most villagers were not compelled to wear it. Now, it has officially been removed from the head of the army. While knitted and woven hats are not banned in many provinces, yet both me and my brothers have been shown to have a charge. Can any law, any interest, any procedure in the world consider this very meaningless accusation as a crime? Third charge of accusation: Encouraging the violation of security in Emirdag. The objection to this is: First: This objection is given to this court and also to the six authorities of Ankara with the information and permission of this court and has not been rejected. I now declare it as an objection to the indictment. Second: In Emirdag, after my acquittal, I have completely refrained from worldly politics and seclusion. Indeed, I even stopped writing and correspondence. I only repeated the Qur'an and wrote two points about the angels. I wrote one letter a week to a place to encourage the Nurlar. Even my own mufti

Şualar ·On Dorduncu Sua ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

This is the appeal and draft of the defense submitted to six authorities in Ankara and the Afyon Heavy Penal Court. I declare to the Afyon Court: Enough is enough; I have no more patience or tolerance. For twenty-two years, without any cause, I have been subjected to constant harassment, including total isolation and solitary confinement. Although six courts have not found any responsibility in the 100 books of the Risale-i Nur for more than two or three issues, they have unjustly imprisoned us three times and caused Nur followers hundreds of thousands of lira in damage, all due to suspicions and the use of our capabilities at the scene. This is an unprecedented crime in the world, and future generations will strongly curse these cruel perpetrators. We have tolerated this so far with some degree of comfort and silence, believing firmly that in the great court of the future, they will condemn these oppressors and cast them into the lowest depths of Hell. Indeed, over the course of fifteen years, six courts examined our Nur writings and letters for twenty years, yet none acquitted us in any way. Only the Eskisehir Court, using as an excuse just five or ten sentences from a small essay on women's modesty, imposed a minor punishment under a flexible law. After the Court of Cassation, I officially wrote to Ankara in my appeal for correction, stating that the only example of illegality was: "For thirteen hundred fifty years, with a sacred tradition of three hundred seventy million, a strong and continuous Islamic custom of teaching and commanding modesty, an interpretation of the verse on modesty was made in accordance with the consensus of three hundred seventy thousand commentaries and their rulings, following the tradition of our ancestors over thirteen hundred fifty years. If there is justice in the world, this ruling will certainly be overturned and this strange stain will be erased from the judiciary of this Islamic government," I wrote in my appeal for correction.

Şualar ·On Dorduncu Sua ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

I begged my warden very much, saying, "Please give me one of my books." He had promised but did not give it. They are forcing me to remain idle in a large, locked, cold cell alone, and instead of the staff and guards showing me friendship and comfort, they are encouraging them to look at me as if I were an enemy. Here is a small example: I wrote a letter to the director, the warden, and the judge. I sent it to one of my brothers, so that he could write it in the new alphabet. He did write it, and it was given to them. They nailed my windows shut, as if I had committed a great crime. The smoke was suffocating me, and I did not leave a single window unnailed. Now they have nailed this one as well. Although the strict isolation has lasted only about fifteen days, they have kept me in absolute isolation for three and a half months without allowing me to have any contact with my friends. Moreover, for the past three months, a forty-page indictment has been written against me and shown to me. Since I do not know the new alphabet, and because I am unwell and my handwriting is very poor, I begged very much, saying, "Please allow me two people who can read my language and are among my students to read the indictment and write my defense." They did not allow it. They said, "Let a lawyer come and read it." Then they did not allow even that. They only allowed one brother and said, "Translate it into the old alphabet and give it to him." But in fact, writing those forty pages would take only five or six days. Extending the reading of it to five or six days, so that no one can have contact with me, is a very terrifying tyranny that completely nullifies all my legal defense. In the world, even a man guilty of a hundred murders who is to be hanged would not receive such treatment. I am suffering greatly because I truly do not know the reason for this unprecedented torture. I have heard that the Chief Judge is conscientious and compassionate. Based on this belief, I have written this petition and appeal to you as my first and last attempt. Sick and exhausted in absolute isolation Said Nursî • • •

Şualar ·On Dorduncu Sua ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

Objection to the Indictment To the honorable court and the public prosecutor! In this indictment, for each article of accusation, there are answers in my defense, which I have submitted to you in the course of the investigation. In particular, I am submitting to you instead of an objection, a thirty-five page defense titled "My Final Defense." I say this in order to draw your attention to the point of justice and fairness: For ten years in the Isparta province, under pressure and in a victimized manner, there has been no sign, no demonstration whatsoever that would harm internal security and public safety, yet who can allow me to be accused of attempting to violate internal security? If the meaning of the sixty-third article of the law is interpreted as applicable to our case, then it would necessarily apply to the Directorate of Religious Affairs, all the imams, preachers, and speakers, because we are together in promoting religious life. If the idea of promoting religion being necessarily an act of violating internal security is put forward, it would be applicable to the public in general. Yes, there is one aspect in which I am above them, and that is the explanation of the absolute, unquestionable, and certain religious truths. If, hypothetically, an objection were raised by the general religious community, this situation would free us from the objection. Despite such extensive investigations against me, nothing has yet been established; even if something were established, it would not constitute a real crime at the point of true justice; and even if it did constitute a crime, to imprison and cause suffering to about twenty innocent and guiltless people, separating them from their families and their jobs, certainly does not conform to the court's sense of justice. Many innocent and helpless people who had contact with me have suffered serious losses due to their detention.

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