In His Name, be He glorified!
Our Master said the following:
The newspaper Cumhuriyet, which opposes us, completely misreported due to his severe illness and the infirmities of old age my defence speech and distorted the meaning, including such nonsensical sentences as “to save ten innocent people from darkness because of one criminal” instead of, “so that no harm should come to ten innocent people due to one criminal,” Moreover, although the answer I wrote was stated exactly five or six years ago in the Istanbul Second Magistrates' Court and was part of my defence which earned an acquittal in the matter which holds most importance for me, a month or two ago during my trip to Istanbul, completely meaninglessly and maliciously and in order to provoke a storm in a teacup, a public prosecutor handed over the case to the Isparta public prosecutor and officially sent two policemen to take my statement. I told them that the matter had been replied to five years previously and that my reply was still the same. They accepted this and had it written by typewriter, and they sent it to the wretch.
Now, someone esle has evidently again meaninglessly given it to a kaymakam a long way off from us. Then the calumniating newspaper wanted to raise suspicions among some weak Nur students by saying that “the kaymakam gave it to the public prosecutor.” The Risale‑i Nur's many lawyers must write refutations of this article. There are four reports from the Istanbul health authorities about the matter involved. I had not condescended to show them to anyone since it was unimportant. And it is still unnecessary.
Saîd Nursî
Postscript:
I send many greetings to the two police chiefs in Ankara. They should attach no importance to such matters‥