A Pleasant Memory from Prison
While we were in prison, there would sometimes be talk of an amnesty, put about by the former cruel despots in order to deceive, and the miserable prisoners would ask me if this would happen.
I would tell them that they were only saying it to hoodwink them. However, the Nur students had been sent to prison three times for the purpose of consoling the prisoners and getting ninety per cent of them to perform the prayers. I therefore hoped from divine mercy with powerful hope that it was a sign that a full amnesty would be granted to the prisons, and I gave good news of this. On many occasions I consoled many men with this. Endless thanks be to Almighty God that the heroic Democrats confirmed my hopes and predictions and were the means of saving many innocent prisoners from torments, for they were being crushed on the pretext of arbitrary, biased laws and certain hostile officials' partisanship. They also made the bold sections of the nation supporters of themselves and of public order. It led also to numerous prisoners completely reforming by reason of their attachment to the Risale‑i Nur and the Nurjus, and their becoming useful — rather than harmful members of the nation and country.
Saîd Nursî