"Later he said: `Would you tell the driver to please stop the bus. There's no compulsion in religion. I have a few words of advice for the passengers.' So the driver stopped the bus and Hoca Efendi immediately started to address the passengers:
" `Tonight is most likely the Night of Power. When recited on other days each letter of the Qur'an yields ten rewards, in Ramazan, a thousand rewards, and on the Night of Power, thirty thousand rewards. If you were told you would be given five gold liras in return for doing something, wouldn't you want to obtain them?' The passengers replied that they would, so the Hoca continued: `You spend all your strength and energy to gain five gold liras for this transitory life, don't you want to prepare some provisions for your provisions-bag for eternal life?' Again the passengers replied in the affirmative. So Bediuzzaman said: `In that case, if each Muslim recites Sure el-Ihlas three times, Sure e1-Fatiha once, and Ayetü’-l-Kürsi once, he will have prepared some provisions for his bag for eternal life.'
"The driver, Rizeli Lütfü, and the passengers thanked Bediuzzaman, and soon after it was time to break the fast. He stopped the bus at a famous spring in the pine forests in the Ilgaz mountains for a break. There, Hoca Efendi gave me the food given to him by the Town Council and I gave him mine, and we broke the fast in that way. We performed the evening prayers together. In Ilgaz I left Hoca Efendi and went to work. But a while later they arrested me and sent me to Denizli. They still had not brought Hoca Efendi there when I arrived. When the fiends in the prison asked me anxiously if I had seen Ustad Hazretleri, I remembered the verse he had got me to write in the bus on the way to Ilgaz. I got it out and read it to them and related what had happened on the journey. They were greatly consoled and pleased."
Assigned to accompany Bediuzzaman from Kastamonu to Isparta was a non-commissioned gendarme officer called Ismail Tunçdogan. He noted that on reaching Ankara, he and Bediuzzaman put up at a hotel in the Samanpazari district. Soon after arriving, in a manner entirely outside the normal course of events,