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HARUN YAHYA

ignorance, our greatest foe. Stop your efforts, for it would
come to nothing. It is likely that, because of a few killers,
thousands of innocent men and women perish.”
Despite everything, together with many leaders of the dis-
trict, an official inquiry about Bediuzzaman was opened and he
was brought to Istanbul. Then he was exiled to Barla, a village
of Egridir. In this village, he wrote three-quarters of the Risale-i
Nur Collection, a famous commentary of the Qur’an.
As the number of his followers increased, he was sent to
Eskisehir, where he underwent trial again and was sentenced
to eleven months imprisonment. Pressure upon him increased
gradually. In 1934, he was sent from Barla to Isparta. After
serving his sentence together with his 120 friends, he was
exiled to Kastamonu. He was arrested again in 1943 and sent
back to Ankara. Following this, investigations about him were
opened in Isparta and Denizli. Following his detention for nine
months together with over a hundred friends, he was acquit-
ted of all charges. Despite the decision of acquittal, pressures
did not relent. The sentence passed, that of twenty months of
imprisonment, was annulled by a higher court.
When, in 1951, he was sued in relation to one of his articles
in a journal, he found the opportunity to come to Istanbul,
where he had not been to for twenty-seven years. He was
acquitted again.
In 1956, the publishing of the Risale-i Nur Collection was allowed,
for no one could find any element of crime in it. During the last
days of his life, he traveled all around the country and after a long
journey from Istanbul to Urfa, he passed away in 1960. Following
the coup of 27 May, his funeral was taken from Urfa by plane to
Isparta, where he was buried at an unknown place.

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