interest many quarters in this work. Later, in 1955 Abdülmecid translated Bediuzzaman's Qur'anic commentary written during the First World War, Signs of Miraculousness (Isarat’ul-I’caz), and his Mesnevî-i Nuriye, from Arabic into Turkish. The Turkish translation of Isârâtü’I-I’caz was then printed in Ankara in the new letters, that is, the Latin alphabet.

• The Risale-i Nur's `Positive' Method of Service and Relations with the Democrat Government

Even if still under threat of police action, the legal and open printing of the Risale-i Nur was a tremendous victory for Bediuzzaman and his students over those who for thirty years had employed every means to eliminate and silence them, and vindicated the method of service they had followed and adhered to. The Risale-i Nur and its way of `positive action', the patient and silent struggle to save and strengthen belief in God and the other truths of religion by peaceful means - primarily that of the written word - and non-involvement in politics had prevailed over the forces seeking to eradicate Islam and extinguish belief, and by creating anarchy in society, to destroy it and subjugate the Turkish nation to communism and irreligion. The unique function of the Risale-i Nur in the renewal of belief and revitalisation of Islam demanded this method, which had few counterparts in the Islamic world, where attempts to serve Islam were often by `direct', violent, or political methods.
As described in the Introduction to the present chapter, the way of the Risale-i Nur was peaceful cihad or `cihad of the word' (mânevî cihad) in the struggle against aggressive atheism and irreligion. By working solely for the spread and strengthening of belief, it was to work also for the preservation of internal order and peace and stability in society in the face of the moral and spiritual destruction of communism and the forces of irreligion which aimed to destabilise society and create anarchy, and to form "a barrier' against them. Since the Democrat Party also understood the dangers which these posed and took a positive stand against them, and