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Light." Each trea tise is a book pub lished in many edi -
tions. If, there fore, he open ly states, "I know I am not
a say y id" in his works, then it would be a vile insult and
slan der against Bediuzzaman Said Nursi for cer tain
peo ple to say: "Bediuzzaman's state ments are untrue;
he called us one day and said that he was both a say -
y id and the Mahdi." Because this would be equiv a lent
to claim ing that what such a wor thy and moral indi vid -
u al as Bediuzzaman had writ ten was a "lie." A claim to
the effect that, con tra ry to what he wrote over hun dreds
of pages, Bediuzzaman "only told two or three peo ple
that what he had writ ten was a lie," is a grave impu ta -
tion against those who make such claims. No claim to
the effect that "Bediuzzaman deceived mil lions of peo -
ple, but only told a hand ful of peo ple the truth," is com -
plete ly unac cept a ble.
On the other hand, it is suf fi cient for Bediuzzaman
to say, "I am not the Mahdi" to put the record straight.
It is non sen si cal to main tain that such a holy per son -
age "wrote detailed and com pre hen sive lies over hun -
dreds of pages, and what he wrote is all a decep tion."
Such a grave insult is unac cept a ble, even if made out
of love.
It is com plete ly out of the ques tion for a reviv er of
such deep faith as Bediuzzaman to have writ ten the
exact oppo site of what he thought and believed in his
works. Therefore, it is a grave slan der, albe it made out

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