Page 59 - Slanders on Muslims in History

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar 57

Accused of Madness

One of the most common accusations faced by Muslims
is that of madness. In 1908, Bediuzzaman was taken to court
under an artificially created pretext. There, the report by the
court-commissioned doctors concluded that he was mentally
disturbed. The doctor at the mental institution to which he
was sent, however, spoke to Bediuzzaman and then pro-
claimed: “If this man is mad, there is no sane person on
Earth,” thereby thoroughly discrediting the earlier report.
From then on, Bediuzzaman was frequently accused of
madness by the media outlets owned by his opponents.
These publications against religious morality tried, in their
own eyes, to discredit this great Islamic leader in people's
eyes by making such misleading comments as: “Said Nursi
has been an inmate in a lunatic asylum.” But, like all the traps
set by unbelievers for believers, it never achieved any mea-
sure of success.

Accused of Misleading People
One of the accusations made against Bediuzzaman and
his students was published in a newspaper as a serial entitled
“Religious Exploiters.” In these articles, his students were
alleged to be “affected by magic,” just like in the stories relat-
ed in the Qur'an. It was further suggested that their loyalty to
him was based on religious bigotry, that their ears and minds
could perceive nothing else, and that they no longer under-
stood anything else. As we can see, these accusations are
exactly the same as those suffered by earlier believers. It is