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THE SCHOOL OF YUSUF

Those before them plotted but all plotting belongs to Allah.
He knows what each self earns, and the disbelievers will
soon know who has the Ultimate Abode. (Surat ar-Ra‘d, 42)
Bediuzzaman was cleared of all these allegations, while those
who slandered him were publicly humiliated.

His Exile
The ruling circle of those of his people who were arrogant
said, “We will drive you out of our city, Shu‘ayb, you and

those who believe along with you, unless you return to our
religion.” He [Shu‘ayb] said, “What, even though we detest
it?” (Surat al-A‘raf, 88)
They said, “Lut, if you do not desist you will be expelled.”
(Surat ash- Shu‘ara’, 167)
Allah reveals in many verses of the Qur’an, as the ones quoted
above, that believers were forced into exile. Bediuzzaman was
punished with exile on more than one occasion. Certain circles, like
the Freemasons, that could not confront him on an ideological

basis, found the solution in having him exiled to remote regions,
such as Barla, Kastamonu, Emirdag and Isparta.
He was ordered to remote corners in towns and villages, he was
kept under inhumane conditions, and he was forbidden to leave
the village of his exile, in order to prevent contact with the outside
world. Two days before his death, he arrived in Urfa quite ill, but
still they sought to evict him from there nonetheless. With the in-

tervention of his students, and other conscientious people, he was
allowed to remain there, but he finally died.

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