To the Government Ministry!
We are disclosing to your esteemed self on the subject of this nation's fate, a plan against the Democrats which is of the utmost seriousness and which Satan even could not have hatched. It is as follows:
The cunning fanatics of the People's Party have understood that the numerous students of the Nur community are protecting the Democrat Party. The community was formed by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, who, with extraordinary self‑sacrifice has for twenty-seven years striven unobtrusively with his works against the irreligion, absolute despotism, and severe tyranny in this country. Even, in the regions the Nur students were most numerous, they covertly planted İsmet to spy on them and investigate them.
The Nur students have, with powerful faith, devotedly served Islam and the nation's belief in every part of Anatolia and have been a means of the tyrants' dominion crumbling. In consequence, in order to turn the Nur students against the Democrats and make them hate them, the Isparta judiciary took the decision to burn the Staff of Moses and Zülfikar collections. Yet these works save lives in this world and the next, and have illuminated and given guidance to hundreds of thousands of believers and numbers of university‑educated youths, and have met with approval and applause in Arabia and Egypt and out of respect have been placed on the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad (Upom whom be blessings and peace) and on the Black Stone in the Ka'ba. We received news of this decision, which would bring the heavens and earth to anger and cause all creatures to weep. How- ever, these two lengthy works from the one-hundred-and-nineteen-part Risale-i Nur were acquitted unanimously in 1944 by Denizli Court and its decision was ratified by the Appeal Court. The case became res judicata and all the works were returned to their esteemed author and their owners. The vindictive decision given latterly by Afyon Court on the particular orders of the communist deputy of the People's Party was quashed by the former just chairman of the Court of Appeal. Finally, with the general amnesty, a veil was drawn over their attempted slanderous accusations and the case was dropped.
While the truth of the matter is this and numerous defamatory publications are being freely disseminated, these moves are being made to destroy the truly veracious four‑hundred-page collection on the pretext of two pages of commentary on a verse from the Qur'an, and charges are being made of its violating the law. The purpose of this, which is being carried out directly on account of the former tyrannical party, is to turn the hundreds of thousands of Nur students against the Democrats, to eliminate this powerful source of support for them, and to bring down the Democrat government. We are informing you of this diabolical plan in order to thwart it, and we offer our respects.
In the name of the university Nur students,Yusuf Ziya Arun