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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

three and a half months, and they did not allow any of my friends to
have any contact with me. Also, three months ago a forty-page indict-
ment was written against me. They showed it to me. But I do not know
the new letters, and I was ill, and my own writing is very poor, so I
pleaded with them to let two of my students come, who know my lan-

guage and could read the indictment and write out my objections to it.
But they did not permit it. They said: "The defence lawyer should come
and read it." Then they did not permit him [to do so] either. Only, they
told one of my brothers to write it out in the old letters and give it to me.
But it would take six or seven days to write out those forty pages. To
make the hour's work of reading me the indictment stretch over six or
seven days, just so that no one should have contact with me, is ap-
palling repression and deprives me of my right of defence entirely. A
multiple murderer condemned to be hanged does not receive such treat-
ment. 69
But Said Nursi never regarded these difficulties as confining. He
often expressed this attitude in his writings, some selections of which
are presented here:

Since we have submitted to destiny, we know that these troubles are the
most auspicious of matters and a spiritual blessing, the secret indicat-
ing the acquisition of merit. Generally, the end of transitory worldly
troubles comes with well-being and goodness. Since we have such an el-
evated degree of belief and have dedicated our life to such a reality, it is
brighter than the sun, as beautiful as Paradise, and as charming as eter-
nal happiness. Of course we are engaged in a spiritual struggle, taking
pride in and giving thanks for these woes, and so must not complain. 70

Do they think I am so self-important and thinking of saving myself? I
have sacrificed the world and the Hereafter for the sake of saving the

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