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Bediuzzaman Said Nursi: The Great Scholar Of Islam Who Learned
And Taught In The School Of Yusuf
Harassed by Hypocrites

One of the methods used to stop Bediuzzaman and his students
was to have hypocrites infiltrate their community. It was the re-
sponsibility of these individuals to inform certain irreligious circles
of what went on among them, and to provide material for propa-
ganda by the media they controlled.
An example of this was the serial article “Inanc Somuruculeri”

(Belief Exploitatives) published in 1964 by the newspaper
Cumhuriyet. Yilmaz Cetiner assumed a religious identity in order to
infiltrate the Nur community. He was with Bediuzzaman on a num-
ber of occasions, and was to produce the most devastating smear
campaign against the Nur community. Bediuzzaman speaks in the
following way about a spy among them:
There was an evil spy among us who worked to have the stu-

dents of Nur imprisoned. This man one day admitted freely that
he had found nothing to secure their imprisonment and said if
he were to find something he would most definitely have them
imprisoned. Two days later, he himself did something that got
him imprisoned for two years. 36

Bediuzzaman never compromised in his struggle, in spite of all
the conspiracies, attacks and slander waged against him. What was
done onto him and his students served only to strengthen their de-
termination. As the Qur’an promised, the unbelievers’ conspiracies
were foiled. Allah states in these verses that He will thwart the plots
of the unbelievers:
They desire to extinguish Allah’s Light with their mouths.
But Allah refuses to do other than perfect His Light, even
though the disbelievers detest it. It is He Who sent His

Messenger with guidance and the Religion of Truth to exalt

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