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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

His students told about the difficulties he had experienced in
those days and his resolve to be self-sacrificial while enduring them:

Winter. Everywhere was frozen. Afyon was cut off and the railway was
closed. No food or fuel had reached the city for 15-20 days. No water
flowed. The blessed Master's windows were broken, floorboards were
spaced out, and it was impossible to get warm. That day I saw that the
Master had curled up under a double blanket in front of a gas jar with
some coal in it and a tea kettle. 72

Even if we met with the Master most times, it was impossible for us to
know him as most of the other students know him. We sometimes be-
came aware of him being kept in bitter cold, stoveless rooms, given
deadly poisons. I saw the Master suffering—who knows after what tor-
ment and suffering? A strange day and a strange winter. 73

On the other hand, the aged and sick Bediuzzaman was regarded as
worthy of all kinds of ruthless treatment. They would not even let him
approach the window to take some air. Since the prison's water was on
the bottom floor, they generally left the Master without water. The
Master was patient in the face of all this treatment and did not even
curse them. 74
I sometimes entered the prison and visited the Master. At one visit, his

temperature had risen to forty degrees [centigrade]. Even under those
conditions he was busy with writing and rectification of texts. His dis-
ciples were at his side. They too had suffered much sickness. 75
The esteemed Master had genuinely suffered much. He saw Allah's

grace in suffering. He was deprived of everything. The washing room
was fifty meters away, with no roof and no electricity. During winter,
sometimes there was no wood in the house. In Barla, everything was

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