In the Name of Him, the Sublime, 1
They have considered it as if we have formed a party of the Qur'an, like a great bounty, by following the Islamic tradition current from the time of Saadi to now, and collected one hundred famous verses which are the special sources of the Risale-i Nur, and accused us of "distorting religion."
They are trying to accuse us as if the Risale on Modesty, which was secretly kept, was taken out from under the wood piles as recorded in the official records, and which I was imprisoned for one year, was written and published this year. Also, in Ankara, the government authority (Mustafa Kemal) did not respond to my objections and harsh words, but remained silent. After his death, my natural and necessary and secret criticisms, which reveal the recent truth about his mistake, have been considered as a matter of responsibility. Where is the memory of a deceased person whose connection with the government has been cut off? And where are the laws of justice, which are the manifestation of the sovereignty of the Almighty and the memory of the government and the nation?
Also, the principle of freedom of conscience, on which we rely most and which we use to defend ourselves against the government and its principles, has been considered as a matter of responsibility against us. As if we are going against the principle of freedom of conscience!
Also, because I criticized the virtues and faults of civilization, they attribute to me in the official records something that is not remembered or imagined: As if I reject the use of radio, airplanes, and submarines, and thus I am held responsible for being against modern progress!
Şualar
·On Ikinci Sua
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In the Name of Allah, the Sublime, 1
This is our objection against the accusations made by the Afyon Court.
My objection is not directed against the Afyon Prosecutor and Court, but rather against the corrupt and biased officials who, through false and incomplete records of other public prosecutors and informants and investigators in other places, have turned the strange situation here and in the interrogation office against us.
Firstly: To accuse and bring before the court innocent students of the Risale-i Nur, who have no political organization, no connection to it, and whose only purpose is faith and the hereafter, merely because they have read or written the Risale-i Nur, or taught it, and to consider them as members, active members, or publishers of that organization, is a clear proof of how far this is from the essence of justice:
While those who read the absurd works of Dr. Duzi and other atheists, which are against the Quran, are not considered guilty under the principles of freedom of thought and freedom of science, reading and writing the Risale-i Nur—which shines like the sun for those who are very in need and eager to learn the truth of the Quran and faith—is considered a crime. Moreover, before the courts even announced their decisions, we had kept only two or three of the hundred treatises secret to avoid misinterpretation, and the prosecution has used only a few sentences from them as an excuse for the accusation. However, the Afyon Court examined one of these treatises, looked into the matter, and only touched upon one or two issues in the Treatise on Modesty. The exception was fully and clearly answered in my defense and objection, and in the Afyon Court, it was firmly proven twenty times over that "We have light in our hands, not a political ball," and the Denizli Court examined all the treatises without exception and found nothing in any of them. Yet these unjust prosecutors have attributed three or four sentences from those two or three treatises to the entire Risale-i Nur, and even confiscated the four-hundred-page Zülfikâr for just two pages, and have accused those who read and write the Risale-i Nur, and me as well, of fighting against the government.
Şualar
·On Dorduncu Sua
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The accusations and denunciations made by those who wrote to the Son Posta newspaper and those who compelled the court to impose a penalty on us, their errors and mistakes.
1. In the Seventh Request, I said, "The death of four or five old men and the caliphate monarchy made me sad." Fourteen years ago, the Eskisehir Court referred to this word. I said, "It was not the death of the monarchy, perhaps the death of the caliphate monarchy. You did not read an 'n'." Then they fell silent.
2. It was not the adoption of Latin letters, but perhaps twenty years ago I objected in a confidential treatise to the prohibition of the study of the letters of the Qur'an.
3. Thirty or forty years ago, in defense of the truths of the Qur'an, following all the Islamic scholars and exegetes, I interpreted the explicit verses of the Qur'an regarding inheritance and modesty. After my interpretations were examined by the government four or five times and only the Treatise on Modesty was returned to us, the Son Posta newspaper, which imposed a light penalty on me not by law but perhaps by a sense of conscience, should consider how many errors exist in that publication. It is necessary not to deceive the general opinion.
4. The giving of a particular opinion of one of Nur's disciples to all Nur followers, the assumption that an ordinary letter written by one person to a particular friend is the expression of a supposed secret society, and the extension of thirty or forty words from three or four confidential treatises written over thirty or forty years to all one hundred thousand words of the one hundred and thirty treatises of the Risale-i Nur, and holding all of them responsible, and the governments, judicial authorities, and records of five or six provinces that have kept me under surveillance and supervision for twenty-three years, sent me to four or five courts, and after suppressing most of the copies of the Risale-i Nur five or six times, returned them to us, fully share in our supposed and baseless accusations.
Şualar
·On Dorduncu Sua
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In the Name of Allah, the Most High 1
Reis Bey, in the decree three points have been taken as a basis: First, a society. I testify with my own eyes to all the Risale-i Nur students here and to those who have met with me or read and written with me. Ask them if I have ever said to anyone: "We will establish a political society or a Nakshi society." I have always said this: "We will try to save our faith." All the believers are included in a sacred Islamic community, which numbers more than three hundred million members, and there is no other community mentioned in our midst, and we consider ourselves part of the "Party of Allah" as mentioned in the Qur'an, and because of the unity of all believers, we have found ourselves in the circle of Hizbü’l-Kur’ân, Hizbullah, in service to the Qur'an. If this meaning is intended in the decree, we confess with all our soul and with great pride. If other meanings are intended, we have no knowledge of them!
Second point: By the decree's acknowledgment and the report and confirmation of the Kastamonu police, some sentences from books such as the Tesettür, Hücumat-ı Sitte, and Zeyli, which were kept secret, hidden under piles of wood and coal, in locked boxes, examined and criticized by the Eskisehir Court, and for which we accepted a mild punishment, are being misinterpreted. They are trying to bring us back to nine years ago and accuse us of the crime for which we were punished.
Third point: In the decree, in several places, expressions such as "may or can violate the security of the state" have been used, applying the possibility to the occurrence. Everyone could possibly commit a murder. Should one be held responsible for this possibility?
The Accused
Said Nursî
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Şualar
·On Ikinci Sua
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Fourth: After six months of investigation in the Eskişehir Court, and the reason being also society and brotherhood, on the pretext of that false accusation, a great leader encouraged some judicial officials against him with personal bias, yet he was acquitted in the matter of society, brotherhood, and the Risale-i Nur, and only the small part of the Risale-i Nur, the Book of Dress, was taken as an excuse. They imposed a six-month sentence not by law but by conscience, and among one hundred students, five or ten were sentenced to six months. Before the investigation period, four months were suspended, so they spent one and a half months in prison. Then, ten years later, the Denizli Court, again for nine months, on the pretext of society and brotherhood and a few other excuses, examined all his twenty years of letters and writings in detail, and while they were under investigation in the Ankara and Denizli Courts, those courts collectively acquitted him in the matter of society and brotherhood and other excuses, returned his books and letters to him as they were, and acquitted him and his friends. Yet, to accuse him from a political society perspective and in the style of a scheming political figure, and to direct judicial officials against him in the matter of society and brotherhood, how unlawful this is, those who are not silent about humanity know.
Fifth: For example, I, out of compassion, which is the foundation of the Risale-i Nur and has been my life principle for thirty years, do not associate with criminals who have wronged me, not even to curse them. Indeed, even though I feel anger toward the most wicked criminals and perhaps even those who are godless oppressors, out of that compassion, I am prevented from associating with them, not even in words or perhaps even in curses. Because, for the sake of preventing those wicked and cruel people from causing material and spiritual harm to either elderly, innocent people like their father and mother or innocent children like their own, I refrain from associating with them, and sometimes even forgive them, in memory of those four innocent people.
This is the secret of that compassion, for which we have not associated with the administration and the police in any way, and I have advised all my friends in the same way, so much so that I have convinced the just officials of three provinces.
Emirdağ Lâhikası - I
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