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Bediuzzaman was exiled to Barla in the years 1925-1926. These years marked the early period of the implementation of absolute despotism in Turkey that lasted for twenty-five years. The covert irreligious committees were pushing for their plans to confiscate all copies of the Qur’an, destroy them and extinguish the Islamic rûh by repealing Shaâ’er one by one. Thinking shaytanically that this plan could not be achieved, they devised a new strategy that would result in the Qur’an being demolished by the hands of the future generation that would come thirty years later; they started to implement this plan. To destroy Islam, unprecedented destruction and aggression in history were carried out.

All efforts were made to break all kinds of ties of the Turkish nation and children of this country — who for six hundred years challenged the whole world as a flag bearer of Al-Qur’an Al-Hakîm, indeed for a thousand years since the Abbasids — with the Muslim identity to distance and deprive them of Islam, and they were indeed successful. It was not a particular event but a universal one concerning the entire Muslim world. It was a large-scale universal event concerning the îmân and belief of millions of people, especially the youths and the millions of innocents and students, and the catastrophe that would befall them in the world and âkhirah, and it was connected with the eternal lives of the people of Anatolia until the qiyâmah. At that time and during those years, terrible revolutions and destruction were taking place against Islam and the Quran in the life of a heroic nation that has held the highest exalted rank as the flag bearer of the Qur’an with the testimony of its thousand-year shining history. The future generations and students were made to forget their honourable ancestors buried in history and the glorious past of the world’s most renowned army, which spanned a thousand years of jihâd. The ground was being prepared for the communist regime by severing all their ties to the past and deceiving them with apparently glittering veiled words! In place of the most elevated principles of civilisation and the highest material and ma’nawî development that are already present in the haqiqahs of Islam, the covert communists, Freemasons and irreligious people were indoctrinating principles from the swamp of irreligious philosophy that had no nûr and ideologies of intellectuals and philosophers who had no virtue. These principles and ideologies were being taught on a very vast scale through the education system. The main aim of the enemies of Islam, especially the British and the French, was to exploit and deteriorate the Islamic world from the material and ma’nawî aspects. And they planned to sever the heroic Turkish nation from any religious ties and bring it to a state that is totally contrary to Islam in terms of customs, traditions and morality. Unfortunately, these plans have already been implemented!

Thus, the years that Bediuzzaman Said Nursî began his Qur’anic service and his service for îmân in Anatolia with the Risale-i Nur as a hero of Islam striving self-sacrificingly were the beginning and establishment of an extremely terrible era of irreligion that had never been witnessed on earth before; therefore, it is necessary to keep such a terrifying time in mind when Bediuzzaman and his service with the Risale-i Nur are considered.