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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

Nursi to be put under house arrest in Emirdag (Afyon province).
There, he was placed in a room across the street from the govern-
ment building and kept under observation. He was not even allowed
to go to the mosque, and was constantly followed and watched. This
exile was even worse than the one in Denizli. His opponents, who
could not silence him legally, tried to poison him. Of the 23 attempts on
his life, three occurred in Emirdag. But during these years, his students
copied the Risales, both by hand and by machine, and so the message of
the Qur'an was communicated to a wide audience.

In 1944, when the decision by the Denizli Criminal Court was con-
firmed by the Supreme Court of Appeals, Said Nursi was released.
Every day that passed saw the distribution of the Risales to the public,

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