My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

I gave the students’ written objections to the prison governor. I told him: “We want to send this, together with the end part of my written objections, to the Directorate of Religious Affairs and Ankara Criminal Court, which acquitted us and our treatises, and if it’s appropriate, to send too the list of errors and corrections, but privately and just for the information.” He said: “It is appropriate.” Now you may ask the lawyer to prepare several copies of the students’ written objections and two copies of the list.

Also, write to the Directorate of Religious Affairs and say: since you wrote perfectly correctly in the report about Said and his friends you sent to Afyon this time that it is your duty to defend scholars of religion, both the oppressed Said and his innocent companions are extremely grateful to your department. Anyway, our case is related to religion and learning, so the Department of Religious Affairs should be concerned with it before the police, judiciary, or any other department. For this reason, both in Denizli and Afyon, we applied firstly to your department, sending our complaints to the scholars there. Write a paragraph expressing this meaning.

Said Nursi