Yes, some of them are snakes,  some are dogs.  The one who  spied on us on that blessed  night  when,  with  a  blessed  guest  we  were  reciting  blessed  prayers,  and informed on us as though we were commiting some crime, and raided us, certainly deserves the blow dealt by the above poem.

Third Point

Q  u  e  s  t  i o  n  :  Since  you  rely on  the  Qur’an’s  saintly  influence  and  its effulgence and light to reform and guide the most obstinate of the godless, and you actually do this, why do  you not call to religion those  aggressive  people that are around you, and guide them?

T h e  A n s w e r : An important principle of the Shari‘a is “The person who knowingly consents to harm should not be condoned.” Relying on the strength of the Qur’an, I say that on condition even the most obdurate irreligious person is not utterly vile and does not enjoy spreading the poison of misguidance like a snake, if I do not convince him in a few hours, I am ready to try. However, to speak of truth and realit y to a conscience that has fallen to the very lowest degree of baseness, to snakes in human form that have reached such a degree of hypocrisy that they knowingly sell religion for the world and knowingly exchange the diamonds of reality for vile and harmful fragments of glass, would be disrespectful towards those truths. It would be like the proverb “Casting pearls before swine.” For those who do these things have several times heard the truth from the Risale-i Nur, and they knowingly try to refute its  truths  before  the  misguidance  of  atheism.  Such  people  receive  pleasure  from poison, like snakes.

Fourth Point

The treatment  I have received  this seven  years  has been purely arbitrary and outside the law. For the laws concerning exiles and captives and those in prison are clear. By law, they can meet with their relatives and they should not be prevented from mixing with people. In every country, with every people, worship and prayer are immune  from  interference.  Others  like  me  stayed  together  with  their  friends  and relations in towns. They were prevented neither from mixing with others, nor from communicating, nor from moving about freely. I was prevented. And my mosque and my worship even were raided. And while it is Sunna according to the Shafi‘i School to repeat the words, “There is no god but God” in the prayers following the prescribed prayers, they tried to make me give them up. Even, one of the old exiles in Burdur, an illiterate called Şebab, and his mother-in-law,  came here for a change of air. They visited me because we come from the same place. They were summoned from the mosque by three armed gendarmes. The official then tried to hide that he had made a mistake and acted unlawfully,  and apologized,  saying: