A Conversation with the Emirdağ Police

I have a ouestion: What is the reason I have been treated in this extraordinary way because I sought my rights in the name of humanity?

Firstly: I did not present the complaint I wrote and have held it for a year. But now I have sent it to someone so that it may be passed to the Ankara authorities by way of the police. I said that the Afyon police chief is fair‑minded and I sent him a copy by hand. But while awaiting a favourable result and improvement of my situation, he evidently wrote to the people who pressurize me here, saying: “This fine handwriting isn't his; investigate who wrote it!”

But to disregard a serious and absolutely right complaint and evince curiosity about an unimportant, harmless note and disturb myself, is like disregarding a thousand liras and placing paramount importance on five para. Is that not so? What law demands that people who write out the hundred and thirty treatises of the Risale‑i Nur be investigated, despite the fact that three courts have scrutinized every part of them and most of those who wrote them out were in court with me, and the treatises were found to contain not an atom's worth of anything reprehensible? What benefit is there is this? What need is there to summon an unfortunate like myself to the police station, particularly in response to a denunciation? But I say to you that if I so wished, thousands of people would copy out my writings. And they are writing them out everywhere so that the nation and country may benefit from them.

Secondly: I request from you in the name of humanity that until the festival (bayram) you do not turn my attention towards this world. I don't think of you, so don't you think of me. Don't force an unfortunate like myself who is weary of this world to be preoccupied during these blessed months with quite worthless worldly matters.