In His Name, be He glorified!
One of the main reasons I have come to Ankara this time is to see Namık Gedik, the Interior Minister, who is a serious supporter of Islam, and to say the following to the hero of Islam, Adnan Bey, and prominent persons like Tevfik İleri.
In order to greatly strengthen the Democrats as did the Arabic call to prayer, and to win support for them as did permitting the Risale‑i Nur's publication, and to please the Islamic world and even some Christian states, it is to cleanse Aya Sophia of extraneous matters and make it suitable for worship. It was just for the sake of this question that I wanted to see Namık Gedik, although I have given up politics for thirty years, so I came. For the sakes of Adnan Bey, Namık Gedik, and Tevfik İleri I did not go elsewhere.
Moreover, just as in accordance with a fundamental law of the Qur'an, the Risale‑i Nur has silenced communism with its five hundred thousand copies; so too, evidence that it has ensured public peace and security in Anatolia and the eastern provinces is this:
ten years or so ago, the Afyon public prosecutor said: “He's got six hundred thousand devoted students and has published five hundred thousand copies of the Risale‑i Nur; per- haps he'll disturb public order.”
So Said replied to him: “It's true he's got six hundred thousand devoted students, and these last fifteen years they have been persecuted mercilessly, but neither the police nor the courts have discovered any such incident.”
I also said: “Public prosecutor! If the Risale‑i Nur has not assisted in maintaining public order as much as a thousand public prosecutors and a thousand police chiefs, may God damn me! You can give me any penalty you wish!” He could find nothing to say in reply to this.
Only, a year or two after this, a young student of the Risale‑i Nur was going to commit suicide because he imagined that harm would come to the Risale-i Nur because of him. But his Master prevented him and a very minor incident occurred, but the two were reconciled.
Whereas if a master has ten devoted students, then one of them greets someone and receives a blow in return and another kisses someone's hand and is then treated with contempt, they all remain silent so as not to create a disturbance. For they had heard from Said: “If I had a thousand lives, I would sacrifice them all to maintain public order and security.” Therefore, in accordance with the fundamental law, No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another , so that no harm should come to ninety innocents due to five criminals and in order not to treat unjustly ten innocent children and parents because of one criminal, the Risale‑i Nur ensures public order with the services it performs for the cause of belief and lodges a prohibitor in everyone's hearts against wrongdoing. The biography proves that if I had a thousand lives, I would sacrifice all of them for this fundamental law of the Qur'an, and it is there for all to see. And courts of law have also concurred with this.
He even looks on public demonstration of oneself as hypocrisy, self‑ advertisement, and egotism, and so has given up meeting with the people, and through the grace of divine mercy he has lost his voice too so that he is not obliged to meet with his friends and they are not offended.
Saîd Nursî