Since Sheikh Sinasî did not know the Kurdish language, they placed me in his place with a salary of three hundred liras as a general preacher in the southern provinces, and I was both a member of the Grand National Assembly and in the office of the Directorate of Religious Affairs, working alongside the members of the House of Wisdom, fulfilling my old duties and being satisfied with them. The foundation of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ, which I laid in Van, and the Dârülfünun of the East, received from Sultan Reşad nineteen thousand gold liras, and was accepted with one hundred and fifty thousand banknotes, signed by one hundred and sixty-three of the two hundred members. But I saw part of the news given by the original of the Fifth Letter in that place, in a man. I was forced to leave those very important duties. And saying, "This man cannot be dealt with, he cannot be opposed," I gave up the world, politics, and social life, and spent my time trying to save my faith alone. But some cruel and unjust officials forced me to write two or three essays to look at the world.
Later, some people, in connection with questioning similar hadiths that announce the events of the Last Days, I revised the original of that old essay. It took the name of the Fifth Letter of the Risale-i Nur. The numbering of the Risale-i Nur is not according to the order of composition. For example, the Thirty-Third Letter was composed before the First Letter, and the original of this Fifth Letter and some parts of the Risale-i Nur were composed before the Risale-i Nur itself. Whatever the case, in this position, the general loyalty of a certain person to Mustafa Kemal, with his fanatical friendship, forced me to make these unnecessary, illegal, and incorrect objections and questions to me, and to explain this simple explanation. I am giving as an example his completely personal and illegal statement under the name of the law of the judiciary.
He said: "Have you never felt any regret in your heart for calling the Fifth Letter a water pump like rakı and wine, and thus mocking it?" I say to him, in its entirety, senseless and wrong, and in response to his fanatical friendship: The victory and honor of the heroic army cannot be given to him alone, only a share of it can be given to him. Just as it would be an injustice, a terrible injustice, to give the spoils, goods, and supplies of the army to a single commander.
Şualar
·On Dorduncu Sua
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A significant question deserves a truthful answer.
Some of the high-ranking officials asked me: "Why did you not accept Mustafa Kemal's offer of a 300-lira salary to become the general preacher in Kurdistan and the Eastern provinces instead of Sheikh Sinusi? If you had accepted, you could have saved the lives of ten thousand people who were killed because of the revolution," they said.
I replied to them: "I did not spare twenty or thirty years of worldly life for those people, but the Risale-i Nur, which I have given to millions of citizens, has earned them millions of years of spiritual life. This has more than compensated for that loss. If I had accepted that offer, the Risale-i Nur, which carries the sincerity of faith and is independent and not subject to any authority, would never have emerged. Indeed, while in prison, I told my esteemed brothers: If those people in Ankara who condemned me to death for the strong blows of the Risale-i Nur, had instead saved their faith through the Risale-i Nur and escaped eternal death, you will be witnesses that I would forgive them with my soul and life."
After my release, I told those who harassed me with surveillance in Denizli, their high-ranking officers, and the police chief and inspectors: "The miraculous nature of the Risale-i Nur is undeniable. For twenty years of my life of oppression, in a hundred of my writings and letters, and in thousands of my students, there was not a single current, society, or internal or external committee, not a single document or connection found during nine months of investigation. Is it within the power of any idea or plan to achieve such a miraculous situation? If the secret matters of just one man over a few years had been revealed, certainly twenty charges would have been found to hold him responsible and guilty. Since the truth is this, you will either say, 'This is a very extraordinary and invincible genius who has done this,' or you will say, 'It is a very divine protection.' Indeed, it is wrong to fight such a genius. It is a great harm to the nation and the country; and to oppose such divine protection and divine care is a Pharaonic rebellion."
If you say: "If we release you and stop the surveillance and
Emirdağ Lâhikası - I
·Mektup 2
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Or this foreign account is a cunning and sly trick that seeks to cut and destroy the lifeblood of this nation, which deceives the government and confuses the judiciary, so that the spiritual weapons we have used so far against those devils, pharaohs, and anarchists may now be turned against our brothers and our homeland or be broken.
The Accused
Said Nursî
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Ladies and gentlemen; For thirty to forty years, in the name of foreign interests and under the pretext of atheism and disbelief, there has been a secret committee of corruption that aims to corrupt this nation and break apart this homeland, constantly attacking the truths of the Qur'an and the truths of faith in every possible way, taking on many forms. Addressing these merciless and careless officials who have used themselves as a screen in this matter, and their propagandists who have deceived this court while wearing the veil of Islam, I ask for permission to speak a few words to you in your presence. (But on the second day, the acquittal decision postponed that terrifying speech.)
In complete isolation and
solitary confinement,
the accused Said Nursî
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Şualar
·On Ikinci Sua
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