Especially recently, our Master Said Nursi has been afflicted with a condition due to which he will speak to absolutely no one, If he speaks with us, his assistants, for more than two minutes even, he is overcome by thirst. Some days he goes out into the countryside for fresh air and to find relief from this extraordinary condition. He goes nowhere where there are other people. He cannot go the mosque, even. On leaving his room he immediately gets into his private car {(*):} together with one or two of his helpers. Sometimes, once or twice a week, he goes to the house in Eğirdir he has rented, and remaining several hours, he returns to his house in Isparta.

Today we again went to Eğirdir. We had just come to his house there when we encountered someone. He ordered us to return to Isparta immediately. We did not know who the person was. Later we understood that it was the new kaymakam, who a few days previously had arrived from a town in Van Province. Just when we were going to demand, "What law or instructions allow you to block our way and prevent our entering the town?" and to protest at his arbitrary, illegal move, our Master Said Nursi prevented us. He also ordered us to turn back in order to prevent an incident occurring due to this illegal act, for it was market day and crowded, and the people of the town and local villagers are devoted to him and hold him in the greatest respect.

Our opinion concerning this is as follows: although our Master Said Nursi has in no way been involved in politics and does not even meet with people, the facts that the Risale-i Nur is extremely popular in Anatolia and the eastern provinces, and also in the Islamic world, and its large collections have been printed in Ankara with the government's permission and backing, and it has been acquitted by all the courts, have all led the large numbers of people who are attached to the Risale-i Nur to support the Democrat Party. Since this is particularly open and obvious in the eastern provinces, certain covert atheists and supporters of the former party laid plans to poison relations between the Nur students and the government, and they used the new kaymakam here to incite such an incident and to cause a disturbance of the peace.

Formerly, in order to preserve the dignity of Islam, our Master would never bow before even the most ruthless tyrants and to uphold the honour of religion did not rise to his feet before the Russian commander-in-chief when he was a prisoner-of-war and even preferred execution. But despite this, so that public order and security in this blessed country should not be disturbed, he remains silent in the face of the disrespectful, rude treatment of the lowliest gendarme, and meets it with patience. The reason for this is that in accordance with the fundamental rule of the Qur'an, "No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another (Q 6:164 etc.), no one is answerable for another's crime, not even the perpetrator's brother.

With the lessons of the Risale-i Nur, Said Nursi tells those who read it, especially those in the eastern provinces: "Disturbing public order means causing harm to ninety innocent people because of ten criminals, and is tyranny. Therefore, those who read the Risale-i Nur must preserve public order, not disturb it." It is for this reason that he does not interfere in politics and endeavours to preserve public order with all his strength. Also, today he was not angry with the kaymakam because of that regretable incident, On the contrary, he sent his greetings and said he had forgiven him. Before everyone, the Isparta authorities and the Democrat Party here should recognize the value of their elderly guest who is a revered champion of Islam so heroic he is ready to sacrifice his pride to preserve public order and security, and his own world and even his hereafter for this nation, and they should defend his rights.