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motivation, cheerfulness, and determination were exemplary.
He relates in the Risale-i Nur Collection the positive and
beneficial aspects of the above-mentioned prison term and
cruelties inflicted upon him:
A number of officials made false accusations, which no
one at all could believe. They tried to spread around the
most extraordinary slander, but they could not make
anyone believe it.
Then they arrested me during the most intensely cold
days of winter on some trite pretext, and put me into soli-
tary confinement in prison in a large and extremely cold
ward, leaving me for two days without a stove. Having
been accustomed to light my stove several times a day
in my small room, and always having live coals in the bra-
zier, with my illness and weakness I was only able to
endure it with difficulty. While struggling in this situation,
suffering from both a fever from the cold and a dreadful
distress and anger, through Divine grace a truth unfold-
ed in my heart. It uttered the following warning to my
spirit:
“You called prison the ‘Medrese-i Yusufiya’—the School
of the Prophet Joseph. And while in Denizli, things like
relief a thousand times greater than your distress, and
spiritual profit, and the other prisoners there benefiting
from the Risale-i Nur, and its conquests on a larger scale,
all made you offer endless thanks instead of complain-
ing. They made each hour of your imprisonment and
hardship like ten hours’ worship, and made those pass-
ing hours eternal. (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Risale-i Nur