Part of a Conversation with the Interior Minister
I have been the target of an injustice that has been unprecedented in history on the face of the earth, and cruelty and oppression that are illegal in ten respects. It is as follows:
How does it profit you to inflict the police on an extremely weak elderly seventy‑one-year-old who is severely ill from being poisoned as a result of a conspiracy;
is alone in piteous exile;
impoverished to the extent that he had to sell his sack coat, vest, and slippers to secure his needs;
a solitary recluse who for twenty‑five years is able to meet with only one completely loyal person out of a thousand;
an innocent man whose life and works of twenty years have been ruled by three courts and the Ankara experts' committee to be beneficial, not harmful, for the country and nation;
a son of this land who performed important services in the Great War;
a patriot who has striven with all his strength with his effective works to save this nation and country from anarchy and the corruption of foreigners; and as has been testified to by seventy witnesses in court, has not read a newspaper for twenty‑five years nor been curious about the news; has taken no interest in the Second World War, nor has asked about it nor known about it; and as is proved in his works has completely cut all his ties with politics, and as has been admitted officially by your judiciary, has not interfered in your world?
How does it benefit you to set foremost yourself, the Interior Minister, and the governor of Afyon and the Emirdağ police on this wretched Said, who flees desperately from public regard lest harm should come to his life in the hereafter and his sincerity, and dislikes and shrinks from his brothers' good opinions about him and their praise; what profit is there in making him suffer in one day the torments of a month's solitary confinement, compelling him to remain all alone and solitary in anguish? I ask, What law permits this ghastly cruelty? and I declare the above to the Interior Minister by way of the Ministry of Justice, which protects the rights of the public.
Saîd Nursî,who is unjustly deprived of all civil and human rightsand the right to live.