In His Name, be He glorified!
Esteemed Adnan Menderes!
Although our Master Bediuzzaman has given up politics these last thirty‑five years, we members of the Democrat Party and Nur students are certain that he is now working with all his strength, his students, and his teachings to keep the Democrat Party in power, for the sake of the Qur'an and Islam and this country.
We asked him why he is doing this
and he replied: "If the Democrat Party falls, either the People's Party or the Nation Party will come to power. But because of the crimes of the corrupt section of the Unionists (ittihadçılar) and because the greater part of the policies that the Republic's first leader was compelled by the Treaty of Sèvres and other political machinations to enact over fifteen years have been blamed on the People's Party, the noble Turkish nation will on no account voluntarily bring it to power. For if the People's Party comes to power, the communists will gain dominance over the country under cover of it. But Muslims can never be communists; at most, they become anarchists. Muslims cannot be compared to the Westerners. Hence, so that that party which thus forms a serious danger to our society and country, should not come to power, I am trying to protect the Democrat Party in the name of the Qur'an, Islam, and this country.
“As for the members of the Nation Party, if they take only Islam as the basis of their programme, they would assist the Democrat Party, and not oppose it and object to it and try to win power themselves. And if they take racism and Turkism as the basis of their policies, only three out of ten people in this country are true Turks; the majority are of mixed descent. Then as at the beginning of the Second Constitutional Period, a nationalistic partisanship will arise in opposition to this noble and innocent Turkish nation, and the true Turks will be compelled to enter under the yoke of foreigners. Or composed of the other Turkified nations (elements) and impelled by the racialism and racism that exists in this country, relying on foreigners, they will gain supremacy over the innocent Turkish nation. Because such a situation would be fraught with dangers, I teach on account of the Qur'an and the country and nation, that they should ensure the Democrat Party's remaining in power, since it is religious and respectful towards religion.”
Respected Adnan Menderes!
Our Master Bediuzzaman's sole purpose is to strive for the well‑being of the country and nation and and to teach this. We are quite certain that members of the People's Party and Nation Party who are jealous of the assistance for the Democrat Party of such an esteemed person oppress him on every sort of pretext as though he had brought it to power, and they devise every sort of scheme to make him withdraw his support for it.
We request you with all due respect that as a Prime Minister who has stated: “We shall do whatever religion requires” and “religion presents no problems for this country,” you ensure that our Master, who has done so much for our party for the sake of this country, nation, and Islam, is left completely free together with his books, and that he is never again disturbed.
Nur students and members of the Democrats,Mustafa, Nuri, Nuri, Hamza, Süleyman, Hasan, Seyda, Receb, İbrahim, Faruk, Muzaffer, Tahir, Sâdık, Mehmed.