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This is a conversation with the Deputy Minister of Justice and the judges of the courts concerned with the Risale-i Nur.

Sirs! Why are you bothering the Risale-i Nur and us without reason? I absolutely assure you that, let alone struggling with you, it is outside of my duty and the duty of Risale-i Nur to even think of you. Because the Risale-i Nur and its true students are working to provide a great service to future generations, who will come fifty years later1, and to save them from a great destruction, as well as saving the nation and the homeland from a great peril. Those who are bothering us now will certainly become earth in the grave at that time. Even if, hypothetically, that service for happiness and salâmât were a struggle, it should not concern those who are on the verge of becoming earth in their graves.

Yes, the current results in terms of religion, morality, and dignity emerged twenty to thirty years later, after the display of indifference in social morality, religion, and national character by pseudo-freedom seekers. You can certainly understand how the present state of society will shape the religious character and social morality of future generations of this pious, honourable and heroic nation in fifty years. For a thousand years, this self-sacrificing nation has displayed unparalleled heroism in the Quranic service with all its heart and rûh. We consider it our greatest national and patriotic duty to give a haqiqah, such as the Risale-i Nur, into the hands of a segment of the future generations coming fifty years later, who will terribly tarnish and even destroy their glorious past, and to save them from that terrible decline. Therefore, we do not think of the people of this time but of the people of that time.

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Although fifty per cent of those who received the old Islamic tarbiyyah are present everywhere, the other fifty per cent display indifference towards national and Islamic traditions; therefore, thinking of the possibility of ninety per cent of the people following the nafs al-ammarah and leading the nation and country into anarchy after fifty years, and searching for a remedy against that calamity completely prevented me from politics and struggling with the people of this century twenty years ago. Similarly, the connection of the Risale-i Nur and its students with the present time has been severed; they do not struggle or engage themselves with the people of this time.