A Copy of the Letter Our Master Sent the Panel of Judges at Afyon Court
I have come to Afyon today to thank and congratulate you. I thank you for holding our books for so long so that they did not get lost, and congratulate you on now sending them to Ankara. A number of private letters which were written ten years ago by unknown persons to other unknown persons, and some of which were written in my name but were not signed by me and were not published, have been scrutinized by your court and disregarded since they contained nothing reprehensible, So to again take into consideration unpublished letters written long ago about which I know nothing and are covered by the Amnesty Laws and which have nothing to do with the Risale‑i Nur, is to preoccupy both the judiciary and the experts' committee unnecessarily. So to avoid that and not to delay our case, I request that those private letters are not associated with the books of the Risale-i Nur.
The judiciary here has twice acquitted those books and handed down the decision to return them, but despite this, for a number of reasons, they have remained in captivity. I inform you that sometimes in their entirety and sometimes in part, five courts of law have given the decision for their return and five police headquarters have handed them over to their owners. God willing, your justice and good will will ensure that they are returned this time too.
Saîd Nursî,who is ill