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A Believer Confined In The School Of Yusuf Is Student And Teacher

Through certain, verified belief, they leave in everyone’s head
who reads the Risale-i Nur something that restrains them from
committing misdemeanors. They work to maintain public
order.”

An example of this was Denizli Prison. When the Risale-i Nur en-
tered there and the Fruits of Belief was written for the prisoners,
within a space of three or four months more than two hundred
of those prisoners became so extraordinarily obedient and ac-

quired such religious and righteous conduct that a man who
had murdered three or four people held back from even killing
bedbugs. They became completely compassionate, harmless
members of the nation. The officials were astonished at this situa-
tion and looked on in appreciation. Some youths even said before
receiving their sentences: “If the Nurjus remain in prison, we shall
try to have ourselves convicted so that we can be taught by them
and become like them. We shall reform ourselves through their in-
struction.”

So those who accuse the Risale-i Nur students, who are thus, of dis-
turbing public order are surely seriously deceived, or have been
fooled, or knowingly or unknowingly are deceiving the govern-

ment on account of anarchy, and try to crush and repress us. 24
In another instance, Bediuzzaman said that the Nur students
taught by their manner and behavior, as they were forbidden to speak
with others, and offered to teach the other inmates the morality of the
Qur’an:

One reason for the justice of Divine Determining driving us to
the Denizli School of Joseph is both its prisoners, and its people,
and perhaps also its officials and judiciary being in greater need
of the Risale-i Nur and its students than people anywhere else. It

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