it was the Çali?kan family who took it on themselves to see to his needs and assist him. One of these six brothers, Hasan, was Bediuzzaman's first visitor in Emirdag. Thereafter, they and their families attended to all his personal needs, such as sending his food, for which he always paid, as well as doing everything necessary for the work of the Risale-i Nur to continue. In 1945, Bediuzzaman adopted as his `spiritual son', Ceylan, the exceptionally intelligent twelve-year-old son of Mehmed Çaliskan. He remained with Bediuzzaman, and in future years became one of the leading students of the Risale-i Nur.

The house that was found for Bediuzzaman was in the centre of the town, in a busy street near the police station and Municipal Buildings. With the guards posted permanently at his door and windows, it was extremely difficult to visit him. At one point when even the boy Ceylan was forbidden to assist him, the Çaliskan's made a hole into Bediuzzaman's house from the neighbouring shop, in order to reach him. One of the immediate reasons for the renewed vigour of the repressive measures taken against him, was that he refused the offers of a pension that the Government now made him. On the acquittals, initially they had planned to follow a new line in order to silence Bediuzzaman; they planned to buy him off by offering him a regular pension, to build him a house according to his own specifications and also sent him the travelling allowance mentioned above. After due consideration, Bediuzzaman wrote by way of consulting his students, that in order not to break his life-long rule, and also to preserve sincerity, he had refused these offers. The authorities were annoyed at his, and stepped up their harassment as a result. Life became so hard for him that he also wrote that he suffered in one day in Emirdag what he had suffered in a month a Denizli Prison.
As far as he was able, Ceylan attended to Bediuzzaman's needs in the house, such as making his tea and writing out his letters. As ever Bediuzzaman like to spend as much time as possible in the countryside, particularly in the spring and summer, and would walk out into the open stone-wall country around Emirdag taking copies of the Risale-i Nur to be corrected with him. He was always followed