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Master Bediuzzaman's opinions about cinema and art:

'The lord must be as elaborate as the nature of its meaning allows.

The form must be drawn according to its content...

...and the meaning's permission must be taken during its drawing.

The style must be featured, but the purpose and meaning must never be failed.

The imagination must be supported with an ample scope...

...but the truth must never be hurt.'

Bediiuzzaman Said Nursi.

Dedicated to the heroes of the Divine Light.

A FILM BY MEHMET TANRISEVER

Nurs Village - Bitlis 1882

Bismillah! (in the name of God)

Look! The moon has eclipsed!

What does it mean, mom? Why is it like that?

Because a snake has swallowed the moon.

But it is still visible.

The snakes above are like glass, they show Ihat's inside.

Bismillah!

Bismillah is the beginning of every charity, son.

Don't be afraid mom, don't be afraid! I am next to you.

Declare the concision of Koran.

Don't be afraid, brothers.

The freedom is in the faith.

We will fight with the knowledge against the ignorance.

We will tight with art and craft against poverty.

We will tight with unity and solidarity against controversy

EASTERN FRONT 1916

Magnificence and grandeur pertains to Allah and we only obey to Him!

These cannon balls of the infidels can't kill us!

Felt-caps! We will not deign to retreat! We will not deign to retreat!

Bismillah! Allahu Ekber!

Write my brother Mullah Habib!

Bismillah is the beginning of each and every charity. We too start with it.

Kosturma Prisoner Camp - Russia 1916

Attention!

Stand up. Stand up.

Stand up. Stand up.

I don't think he recognized me.

I don't think you recognized the commander.

I did. He is the chief commander of Caucasian Front Nikola Nikolovich.

He is the uncle of Russian Czar.

I did. He is the chief commander of Caucasian Front Nikola Nikolovich.

He is the uncle of Russian Czar

So you are insulting me.

So you are insulting.

No, I am not insulting.

I duly oblige my faith. I am a Moslem scholar.

So I lon't rise.

Stand up immediately!

By not standing up, you are insulting me, my army and the Czar!

By not standing up, you are insulting me, my army and the Czar!

This is a big crime!

This is a big crime!

Set up an immediate court martial and try him!

-What is this? An escape plan? -What is this? An escape plan?

No. This is the plan of my school!

You should say your last prayer instead of thinking such plans.

Youll probably be executed soon.

You may never know commander!

Fate is unique, can't be changed.

Take aim!

Fire!

Please don't kill me! Don't kill!

Take aim!

Fire!

Stop!

A man who is about to be executed takes it slow. Why do you hurry?

A man who is about to be executed takes it slow. Why do you hurry?

I want to reach my Lord as soon as possible!

I am sorry! I thought your intention las to insult me.

I am sorry! I thought your intention las to insult me.

Now I see that your behaviors truly come from your faith.

After 2 years of captivity, Said Nursi found a chance to goto Istanbul via Europe...

...in the chaos of 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

He started a civil resistance against British occupation.

He las officially invited to Ankara by Mustafa Kemal Pasha...

...for his activities supporting Kuvay-l Milliye (National Forces).

He wasn't satisfied with the negotiations he did after his address to the congress.

He lent to Van City.

SHEIKH SAID REBELLION - 1925

Stop! What are you doing?

We are revolting Seyda!

Against what? Against who are you revolting?

The caliphate has been abolished.

An irreligious government has been established in Ankara, we are revolting against this, Seyda!

Fighting against the descendants of a nation who served Islam for thousand years is against Islam!

Bismillah.

My Allah!

I want to explain the whole world that Koran is an undying, inextinguishable sun.

Help me!

Surrender Hodja! We came to take you.

What am I accused of?

We have orders.

What do you want from us?

These people have nothing to do with the Sheikh Said rebellion!

It is a mistake to take away the scholars of this city!

If they go, the people won't be educated!

Take us, send us to exile but let our scholars free!

Hodja! Let's go!

We will flee you away.

Our horses and men are ready!

Let's go in this mess.

We will take you to Iran.

Come on Hodja. That's our chance!

Don't lorry! Said is not going to exile, but to his cause!

Hey you, move away. What are you talking about? Go away!

Handcuff them two by two!

Come on, stand up! Stand up!

Enough. Enough!

We have nothing to do with the revolt!

We aren't involved in the evolt!

We didn't even see Sheikh Said!

Stand up! Move!

Bediuzzaman has stopped us!

It is a huge mistake to hold him!

At least let him free!

Assalamualaikum Seyda!

Waalaikummussalam Sheikh Masum Arvasi brother!

They didn't care you are the Mufti of Van City and arrested you too?

Yes Seyda! I don't think they know what they're doing.

That's true, brother.

These men don't know what they are doing, but someone knows it!

Stop. Listen to me!

There is nothing to lorry!

These soldiers are not our enemies, but your brothers! Don't counter!

I have surrendered to Allah. I am going to the heart of Anatolia with my own lill...

...into the caring arms of my nation!

One of the Van exiles, the hodja named Said-i Kurdi...

...has been sent to your district, accompanying with a gendarme...

...to stay compulsorily.

Do not be fooled by his innocent manners.

His ideas are extremely dangerous.

Warn the people and break his contact with the people.

Keep him under surveillance and report the developments to provincial authorities.

Signed: Governor of Isparta.

We shouldn't travel in this leather but let's hope the best.

I have my orders. I will bring this hodja to Barla today even the Flood breaks!

Look at the act of Allah, look at the leather.

Soldier friend, how do you bring this hodja on your own, don't you scare?

I told the same to my commander.

But told me that he is a saintly person, and does not hurt anyone.

It's the time. Excuse me.

What is it, hodja?

Boatman, turn the boat to the direction of Mecca, the hodja will perform the namaz.

I shot it! I shot it, hodja, I shot it! I shot the partridge!

Let it go, soldier friend! It's the breeding time!

Ouch my foot! Hodja!

Is he too dangerous?

And how! The District Administrator said so.

His ideas are very dangerous. They will jail everyone who speaks to him.

That's enough.

You don't know what you are talking about.

What kind of a people you are!

You believe everything like children! You have to shame on your age!

OK, fine. We are cowards and you are brave huh?

Go greet him and End yourself in the jailhouse.

Sure I will go! They can do whatever they lill.

Here he comes!

-Assalamualaikum! -Waalaikummussalam.

Welcome.

What is this all about?

Commander, I hope this hodja is not a dangerous person as the Governor says.

If he were, they would have sent him with a squad of soldiers.

Oh yeah, look to the Gendarme, look.

What is this?

What is going on?

What is this?

Guardian, go help the soldier.

-Welcome hodja! -Thank you

I am the District Administrator Yasar!

Top Sergeant is the commander of our patrol.

Sir! I am from 18th Regiment.

Don't lorry about the report. Go and get a treatment!

Thank you, sir!

This is the file of the hodja.

Take him inside, soldier friend.

Please hodja, please come in.

Come in.

Oh, is that you Emigrant Hodja? Wait outside, I am coming!

I will give the hodja into your custody. But you have to be very careful!

He is very dangerous. Don't take your eyes away from him!

But mister administrator. You know him wrong!

Enough, shut up and know your limits Emigrant.

Ifl say that he is dangerous, then he is dangerous! Do you know better than me?

Look, they will not only hang you, but me and the top sergeant as well.

Do not take your eyes away from him. Do you know what happened in the east, huh?

They hanged thousands of hodjas. Do you know that?

Life is sleet Emigrant, life is sleet. You are responsible from him. Be careful.

And don't talk about this to anyone.

Please come, hodja. I was waiting for you.

-Allow me to take it. -It is not necessarily.

-Let me take it, my hodja, -All right.

Please come in my hodja. My humble house is on that lay.

I am the imam of this village, hodja.

As our grandfathers immigrated from Rumelia, they call me Emigrant.

And I know a little about being an imam, so they call me Emigrant Hatiz.

Hodja, I had read on the newspaper.

You made a wonderful speech in the Congress in Ankara.

Everybody esteemed you, listened your lords.

But hodja...

Even though they know very well that you did not participate into Sheikh Said rebellion...

...why did they send you to exile? What do they want from you, hodja?

Allah may give you happiness in both worlds my brother.

Hodja, you take rest. I will have your meal ready.

Come in.

You too, come.

Open your hands.

The breakfast is ready, husband.

All right. I will let hodja know.

Hodja!

My honorable Hodja!

Hodja.

He is not here! He is gone!

Oh no! What will I say to District Administrator now?

-Look, did you see the hodja? -No, I didn't see him.

You didn't see? Oh my God, where did the man go?

What will I do now?

The administrator will hang you! The administrator will hang you!

Allah forbid.

I know! I know!

Do you knol? Listen lunatic, please tell me for Allah's sake. Where did he go?

There he is. There he is!

-Hodja, Assalamualaikum. -Waalaikummussalam.

I'm sorry hodja, just curious, what are you doing here?

I am laying the foundation of my school.

-What's it hodja, what school? -Medresetiiz-Zehra. My new school.

One day mister Hatiz, this Barla that you see, will be a great school!

And with Allah's willing, its branches will be opened in the entire world!

If Allah willing, hodja.

What's going on, husband?

We had a stroke of a great luck, life!

This place used to be the village hall.

Now you can stay here alone and rest.

Hodja, I just wondered. Why didn't you stay in Emigrant's house?

I didn't want to disturb him.

I see. Oh hodja, let me tell you this.

Ankara is uncomfortable about you. Please don't put me in a hard situation OK?

We support the law and order, administrator. You don't have to worry.

Just don't fall into the same delusions with Ankara.

You are right about that.

Mister hodja, the view here is really nice.

Do you see this maple tree?

It must be 800 to 1000 years old.

Hello my maple brother. Hello.

Welcome, come in.

Come on look what I will give you. You came also?

And you will also come? Come in.

You are my first visitors.

The believers, the immigrants, and the ones who tight with all their properties and lives...

...in a holy lar for Allah have great values on Allah's side.

Those are who reach to salvation and bliss.

-Assalamualaikum, hodja! -Waalaikummussalam.

-Let me carry for you. -Don't bother yourself.

Not at all.

Let me take.

Welcome to Barla, hodja. My name is Suleyman.

Thank you brother. My name is Said.

-Where are you from, hodja? -I am from Nurs village of Bitlis.

They brought you from so far away huh?

Here.

Assalamualaikum.

Waalaikummussalam Suleyman brother, please come in.

Come in.

-I brought you larm soup, hodja. -Thank you.

-And these are your new shoes. -Please come and sit.

I better not sit. I will go to district directorate.

I have a field problem you know.

All right my brother, all right. How much are the shoes?

-They cost 2 Liras my hodja. -Two Liras. Here is the price of the shoes.

And this ten kurus for the soup.

I can't take it, hodja. It is a treat.

Yes you can, my brother. Take it.

Hodja, I am an illiterate man.

How about if I come here time to time and you tell me about Allah and prophet.

You can come anytime, brother.

But only with the condition that, this doesn't hinder the livelihoods of your family and your children.

They are making great preparations in Ankara. The script will be changed.

The books will be completely renewed.

The dress code be changed.

And superstitions such as religion and afterlife will be removed from the books.

-It's not possible mister inspector. -What do you mean, administrator?

I mean, whose idea is this?

Europe praised education, science, technology, and abandoned the religion...

...so they progressed. What did we do?

What did we do?

We praised Allah and Allah and we regressed. That's the lay it is going to be.

You just don't bother whose idea this is.

Or you will get into a big trouble.

Just don't say I didn't lam you.

They will remove all the religion and so. We will be like the Europeans.

-What is it, hodja? -So it is, huh!

Hodja.

Meal.

Hodja.

What happened to hodja, Suleyman?

I will never ever allow this. I will prove. I will prove.

Allah is my witness, I will prove this. I will never allow this.

I will never allow this. Allah is my witness, I will prove this.

TAHIR PASHA RESIDENCY - VAN 1907

Mullah Said, you have some perseverance, huh!

You have been my guest in my mansion for a year.

You have read and finished all the books in my library about religion and science.

God knows you already memorized them. Last week you said 80 volumes, right?

We fell really very behind of Europe on sciences, Pasha.

So we have to work hard. The Ottoman is collapsing because of this reason.

We must do something.

I lent to the Ottoman Sultan to suggest opening schools...

...in which the religion and science will be taught together...

...and I found myself in a nut house.

We can illuminate the darkness of the ignorance only with Koran's divine light.

That's how we can rise.

Someone is obviously alare of this. Look at the newspaper.

The British Secretary for the Colonies adressed the House of Commons with a Koran in his hand.

'As long as this Koran stays in the hands of the Muslims, we can't truly dominate them.

We should either take Koran from them, or alienate them from the Koran!

We will bring them in such a position that they will read Koran, but will not understand its meaningl'

Koran is an undying, inextinguishable Sun!

I will prove this to the entire world. Allah is my witness, I will prove it.

Please Allah, grant it to me!

Nol look at Allah's merciful arts.

How come a Creator of endless mercy and power...

...who ressurects a dead and lizened world and gives life to it...

...who turns winters into springs and show His might in recreating...

...more then three hundred thousand plant species...

...does not bring the Judgment day?

How come He does not or cannot bring the Judgment Day?

How come He does not or cannot resurrect humans?

A needle cannot be without a craftsman; a letter cannot be without a clerk...

...a book cannot be without a writer!

On the earth page of this book of universe, every tree is a lord...

...every fruit is a letter and every kernel is a dot.

-Selamiinaleykiim uncle. -Waalaikummussalam.

-How are you, are you fine? -I'm fine.

-How is your health? Let me kiss your hand. -Thank you.

Look what I brought for you.

Mehmet!

-Mehmet of Damascus! -Assalamualaikum. Welcome!

Waalaikummussalam, thank you uncle Emigrant.

Do you know who came to Barla after you left?

I wish the best.

It's good.

My hodja! It is you!

It is you, hodja. Welcome, hodja!

You're welcome, you're welcome.

Thanks my Lord, I saw you again!

God bless you by brother, God bless you.

-Don't bother hodja, let me do it. -You are my guest. Please.

-Please. -Thank you, hodja.

Hodja. I can't forget that day.

I las just 13 years old I saw you in Damascus.

We listened to you in Umayyad mosque together with my father.

What a wonderful speech that las, hodja.

My father's told me to serve you as his lill.

Please allow me to serve you, hodja!

Not at all. Not to me, let's serve to Koran together.

Write it down, brother!

First lord.

Bismillah is the beginning of each and every charity.

The faith is both the divine light and the power.

The faith makes a man a human and maybe a sultan.

Assalamualaikum.

-Waalaikummussalam. -Waalaikummussalam.

-I brought some food for you. -Thank you brother.

How are you, hodja, is your health good?

-Thanks Allah. I hope you are also in good health. -Thanks Allah, hodja.

Praise be.

Please.

Look at AIIah's mercy arts, look how he resurrects the world after death.

Doubtlessly, He who makes it is the one who resurrects the death people.

His power is enough for everything.

Husband, you've been lriting the treatise of the divine light since the evening.

Drink your coffee and take some rest, let me write a little bit.

Thank you my life, thank you.

After hodja came, the peace and the prosperity in the house grew.

Thanks to him. Our master taught us to live frugally, my life.

Let's lurk hard and lrite much, brothers.

These divine lights illuminate Barla and all the villages lith Allah's willing.

Look at AIIah's mercy arts, look how he resurrects the world after death.

Doubtlessly, He who makes it is the one who resurrects the death people.

His power is enough for everything.

-Assalamualaikum. -Waalaikummussalam.

I brought you cherries, hodja.

-How much is a basket of cherries? -Five kurus, master.

Not ten kurus my master. I said Eve kurus.

No! I brought them as a present, I will not take the money.

-Then I will not take the cherries! -We don't take, neither.

We, neither.

-Yes Mehmet. -All right, master.

Here.

We are writing non-stop my master...

...but who will know about what we write in this middle of nowhere?

Felt-capped! Felt-capped!

One day, the whole world will read these writings!

Both my writings and Barla are very important!

Barla will serve like a school!

The divine light written here, will spread to the whole world!

You are still not alare what kind of a cause you are helping and why.

Guard...

-...what are they doing over there? -They are writing and reading.

-What? -They are writing and reading.

God is Almighty. God is Almighty. (prayer call in Turkish)

God is Almighty. God is Almighty.

Oh Lord.

Everything is going to change, guard. Everything is going to change.

-Everything? -Everything.

Who are you?

Who are you?

I am asking you who you are, and you are asking me who I am.

Now I am asking you, who are you? I am the District Administrator.

District Administrator.

-Do you know what these are? -What?

These are called Treatise of Divine Light.

These are going out from this small district till Ankara, making them anxious!

Even though they are lritten in the banned script they are passing from hand to hand.

Are you sleeping? Are you blind, District Administrator?

Well, and you are...?

I am sorry sir, my apologies.

We sent him to the most remote corner for oblivion, but you couldn't silence him.

You made him more famous! You just couldn't control him.

Shame on you!

He is only writing sir.

He writes, but he writes another script, District Administrator.

May it be easy, sister Zehra!

Seeing you carrying the woods, Friend Hafiz must be very busy, I assume.

Who is she, guard?

She is the wife of Mehmet Hafiz of Damascus.

Hafiz of Damascus. Who is he?

He is one of the Hodja's major, most royal men.

Oh! So he is!

Welcome sir.

Where the hell are your hats? Didn't you hear the new law?

Listen to me! From not on, everybody will wear a fedora like this gentleman.

If can't find it, then wear this.

But we don't have money.

'We don't have money.' Take them oh'. Come on.

Don't you even have chickens! Sell them and buy one.

Listen to me.

From not on it is forbidden to go out without a hat. Do not break the order.

I'II put you in jail. You will fade in prison.

Move it!

Ignorant folks, sir! They don't know about the civilization.

Where is hodja, guard? Where is the hodja?

We are almost there, sir.

Why didn't you take off your turban brother? There is a law.

Yes my friend. The government gave an order. We have to obey this order.

If the guard sees you, he will seize you.

-Take it off. Do you want to get into trouble? -Is it worth for a turban?

Will you fade away in prison? You have a family. Pity.

Aleykiimselam.

-He came from Ankara, from Ankara! -Oh, is that so!

Who are they, guard?

That one is Hafiz Ali of islémkiiy.

The other one is from Sav village. That one is Hiisrev of Isparta.

And the other one is Captain Hulusi.

Captain?

And who are they?

They call them Divine Light's Messengers. They are lriting and distributing.

And you are just staring, is that so?

Yes please?

You too?

Me too, brother.

The man has established not an organization, but a state!

What has he done in this small district?

Where is this hodja? Where is he, guard?

Where are they, guard? Where are they?

Dear sir: One day, together with the toln's guard...

we climbed to a hill which the local people call Pine Mountain.

771ese men are crazy. I saw it, sir:

They are climbing to the mountains and lriting books, reading books.

Their number is increasing every day.

Guard told me tllaL they climb every summer to Pine Mountain like the nomads.

Said-i Nursi asks them to do this.

771is man is really crazy. He doesn't wear the hat, either, sir!

E verybudy keeps in step with the mndemity...

...ony he and his students are not changing their clothes. They are crazy, sir.

They camp on the top of the mountain, they are organizing and training.

They are breaking the bans and challenging the modernity.

VW1at do you avant me to do about these camps? I am waiting for your orders. ismet.

Master.

-May I shave my beard? -Why Mehmet?

But master, you don't have, either.

My brother Mehmet, I spent a life with wars and difficulties.

Noll am living in exile.

I fought even for this turban at the cost of my head.

Ifl had a beard and it las shaved, I Iouldn't stand it and I would die.

We have guests, master.

Welcome sister.

I brought milk for you hodja. Goat milk.

God bless you.

-Here. -I brought this as a present.

Please take this. It is not how I do things.

I brought partridge for you, hodja.

Thanks. What is your name?

-Sadlk. -Praise be.

What a nice name you have. I hope you will be faithful as your name means.

Do you know how to read and write Sadlk?

All right, then I will accept this partridge with one condition.

-You will learn how to read and write with us, deal? -Deal hodja.

We shepherd the goats downhill with my son.

We allays hear your voices. My son is curious about you.

He imitates your speech every day. Show him, son.

Bismillah is an endless power, is an unending blessing.

Praise be! He is a very clever boy.

All right, not go with your mother.

Tomorrow you can come and study with your brother Mehmet.

-Thank you, hodja. -God bless you, hodja.

God bless you, too.

Mehmet, is there anyone who will go to the town?

Praise be.

Uncle hodja. I learned to write.

Come here, come and sit.

Let me see.

Bravo Sadlk! Your handwriting is beautiful!

-I also like these high hills. -Hold this.

Look.

Lt also loves heights, flying freely over the heights.

What do you say, shall we let it free?

What is happening hodja?

Look! The moon is eclipsed

What does it mean, mom?

Why is it like that?

Because a snake has swallowed the moon.

Don't be afraid my son, don't be afraid. Say Bismillah!

Bismillah is the beginning of every charity, son.

In astronomy science this is called the solar eclipse.

Who darkens the sun, hodja?

No one darkens the sun, my son. Make your hands like fists.

This is the sun, this is the earth and this is the moon.

When the moon passes between the sun and earth, it covers the light...

...so the sun is eclipsed.

Don't lorry, nothing can turn oh' the sun light.

Look, it is brightened.

Oh no! My mother told me to come back early enough. We will milk the goats! I am late!

Where are my shoes.

These are your new shoes, our present.

No, I Ion't wear them! I don't accept unrequited presents, either.

Then write a complete copy of this and we will be even, ok?

I will write. I will write the exact copy and bring it.

Silence.

Everybody listen to me.

I will read the reforms which must be complied from not on!

One: No one will write and read in the old script. It is banned!

Two: From not on, no one will give the call for prayers or listen to it in Arabic.

Banned!

-Selamiinaleykiim! -Waalaikummussalam!

Listen to me.

From not on, no one will talk to the exiled hodja. It is banned!

Come on, guard. What does the reforms have got to do anything with talking to hodja?

Listen, from not on it is also forbidden to play the Saz and singing the folk-songs.

From not on, this one will be played.

-This is called the mandarin. Got it? -Are you sure it is not orange, guard?

Thank you.

Baker brother! Don't give me more than I deserved.

-This is redundant. Here. -Don't mention it, hodja.

I can manage for 15 days with a loaf of bread and 3 months with a kilo of honey.

My ration is two loaves of bread. I deserved this much. Wish you a good business.

Hodja you are making our lives easier.

Give me bread. Give me bread.

Here, friend Sevket.

Sevket loves the hodja. Sevket loves the hodja.

Would you like some, too, kids?

Seyda. Will you accept a guest?

Welcome. Please come in.

Thank you. Thanks Seyda.

They exiled us to the villages of E§irdir.

We are coming from there.

We are the relatives of Sheikh Said.

Sheikh Said's letter.

Honorable Seyda Nibs.

Unfortunately it is no more possible for us to come to an agreement with the Government.

The religion will be lost.

We're laiting for your urgent support for our cause.

Sincerely yours.

We will uprise.

An right!

Sl I ask, which holy purpose makes you consider joining to this revolt?

We want Sharia.

Do you want Sharia?

But what you are doing is against the Sharia! It will help the foreigners!

They abolished the caliphate.

If we don't help the Sheikh, they will totally erase the name of Islam from our country.

They keep talking about Turkishness Seyda!

They are allays bashing the Kurdish people!

Listen, honorable men.

A mistake cannot be corrected with another mistake!

Just because someone is making a mistake, doesn't mean that you have to do the same.

Turks and Kurds are brothers and sisters!

They have been sewing together to the religion for centuries.

If there are faulty people among them, go and lam them mildly.

The Sharia cannot be saved with actions against it, with the idea of tribalism!

You cannot achieve anything with revolt or revolution.

You will just kill the innocent people. You will cause brothers kill brothers.

And you will be slapped by the opposite of your purpose!

I will not join you!

I will not tight with you against the descendants of this gallant nation...

...who has served the religion!

In a country, the lar is made with science and following the right path.

Renounce this purpose.

Tell Sheikh Said that...

...he should also renounce!

How have you been doing?

We struggle.

I struggle a lot, too, brothers.

I lost 9 teeth in the last three months. I am under a continuous pressure.

Iwish I had a craft to lurk and support you.

I am just a hodja.

All I can do is teaching.

I can't provide you a financial relief.

Be patient.

These hard days will be over, with AIIah's willing.

It's a great honor to see you.

It gave us patience.

It strengthen us.

May Allah be with you.

Thanks Seyda. God bless you.

May Allah help you my brothers.

Who are they?

Relatives of rebel Sheikh Said. Aha, the commander is coming.

-Assalamualaikum. -Waalaikummussalam, sir.

-Who is he? -Major.

-Where is he going? -To hodja's house.

God is Almighty. God is Almighty. (call for prayer in Turkish)

Allalruekben Allalruekbed (call for prayer in Arabic)

-Lailahaillallah! -Hands up!

Hands up!

Come on.

How dare you, mister soldier?

Banned! It is banned to call for prayer in Arabic.

Is it also banned inside the mosque?

Your lay of clothing is also banned.

The turban on your head is also banned.

Is the Kurdish Hodja orders you to do like that?

Son, this is banned, that is banned. Are we unbelievers huh?

May Allah forbid.

-Yes? -Move away. We lill make a search.

-What is it, what search? -Where are the treatises?

Stop, how dare you trespass on my privacy?

You are coming with us to the police station. Move!

-What station? -The commander has ordered.

Father! Father!

Move. Move.

Come on, move.

Where do you take us?

Where is our master?

Hodja, we have the orders.

They want you from Isparta.

I las expecting this, Administrator. I las expecting.

We will keep you in the station and then set forth in the morning.

So, the time has come.

Then please allow me till the morning.

No, you have to come with us.

Let him stay, Administrator. l'll put a guard to the door.

Will you?

All right, as it is then.

But, Hodja...

...I cannot send you to Isparta like that. You have to take your turban off and wear a hat.

Listen to me, District Administrator!

I represent your grandfathers!

This turban will only be taken off together with this head!

They are also forcing me. I am also an aide.

Then go and say to your superiors who gave the orders! This is what it is.

All right, hodja.

Go on, lalk.

I feel the strikes on the Islam-World in my own heart first!

Oh our Allah!

I am poor, lonely.

I am weak. I have no power.

I say: help.

Oh our Lord!

You gave an enormous glory, grandeur and wealth to the pharaoh...

...and his men in their worldly lives.

Was that to deviate your subjects from your path, our Lord?

Oh our great Lord..

...sweep away their wealth...

...and strongly crush their hearts.

Obviously, they will not have faith unless they don't suffer such a torment.

-I beg for your mercy and help oh Lord! -Mom, I hear a voice from the roof.

Hodja says Allah. Hodja recites His name, son.

Lailahaillallah!

Allah makes everything good. Allah makes everything beautiful.

Lailahaillallah!

Mom it's finished, it's finished!

I will take it to hodja. I will take it to hodja.

Where is hodja? Where is hodja?

They took hodja away. They took hodja away. Run, hurry.

Hodja, wait for me.

Hodja, I wrote the book!

Hodja, it is here.

Hodja, I wrote the book!

Are you Sadlk?

Master hodja left this for you.

After centuries of struggle, we destroyed an empire which dominated three continents. Why?

Gentlemen! You know that the states are established by revolutions...

_.but the civilization needs reforms.

Said is after the reforms, in other lords after the civilization.

The government is administrated by a certain people with politics.

But the individuals carry the civilization.

That's why Said educates the individuals who will carry that civilization.

That's why he is not falling into our trap to commonize him.

He is interested in the individuals one by one.

He stays away from the politics intentionally, expands his studies to a century...

...emphasize allays the future and damages our plan. This hodja is very clever, really!

The man has challenged the world in a small district like Barla.

I believe it las lise of us to bring him to Isparta.

Do you call this wise?

We told you to organize an incident in Isparta such as the one in Menemen...

...but your men messed it up. Your plot didn't work as you planned.

But this man is a very smart one, sir.

He overcame whatever we did. As if an invisible hand protects him.

Due to your orders, we tried to finish him off on his lay to Eskisehir prison.

You would finish him off, but hodja finished him off.

The captain you sent to kill him became his student. What kind of a finishing is this?

He is bewitching our men.

It didn't work in Kastamonu for 8 years either, no matter who we sent.

We poisoned him and it didn't lurk, either. As if...

Don't give me cock-and-bull stories.

Tell me what you are going to do!

Yes, you have arrested him in Kastamonu because of an article that he wrote.

You put him into the jail in Denizli. So you proved yourself for a change.

Tell me what we are going to do noi. What if he is acquitted?

Don't lorry, he will not appear in the court.

How come?

We have a very good agent who followed him since Barla and he knows him very well. ismet.

How many times did you get arrested, sir?

This time you have been arrested in military uniform.

Sir, what can I say to a brave commander like yourself who fought in Gallipoli...

...and in the War of Independence, who has lar medals.

How should I report?

You are a military man, you know such things.

You and I are both officers. We serve to the government.

I am under pressure, sir.

I have to write my report.

As a matter of fact, I'm not a stranger to your ideas. We, too, have Koran in our house.

Be patient my brother. Allah willing, a solution will be found.

Give me a clue. How should I report?

Give me some time.

Guardian! Where are our friends?

What are you doing to them? Guardian!

Where is our master? Guardian!

Guardian! Where is Major Aslm? Where is the commander?

Hiisrev brother, Mehmet Feyzi brother, what shall we do now?

My Anam

I don't want to tell lies, my Allah.

If I tell the truth, my master and the service will be suffered.

If l tell lies...

my loyalty, integrity and my martial honor I kept for 40 years of life will be stained.

Rather than committing such a sin...

...Iwish you take my life my Lord! Amen!

Enough, stop it!

-Shut up and go inside. -Where is Major Aslm? What did you do to him?

-There is also no sound from our Master! -Go to your places, that's enough.

What is going on? Show him to us.

Goto your places.

Enough is enough.

-Don't do it. Stop. -Just come here.

Do you lant, too?

Stop, don't do it. Stop, don't do it.

Take him up and put back to his bed.

You sacrificed yourself for us, brother.

Iwish you didn't.

I can never stand injustice.

Sir. I brought a prayer rug and soup for you.

Sir!

Sir!

Sir!

Sir!

We came from him, and we will turn back to him.

Our brother Aslm became a martyr.

German Land Forces are marching in Russia.

771e German leader Adolf Hit/er continues to fight in five fronts.

Gaibels, the right hand man nfAdnlfHitler made a press release about German internal affairs.

Why didn't you tell the guardians who I am?

Mr. ismet wanted so. So it will be more convincing.

Look at me, huh. I will make a complaint about you to Mr. lsmet.

Thankfully, I succeeded. Soon they will go into hodja's lard. I will be one of them.

-Will they accept it? -Consider it done, warden.

You take care of the parole issue, and then sit in a corner and latch.

The parole is granted. I will tell the guardians. Ah, I also ordered a meal for you.

See here, you will make them blow their things up lithout the toilet.

-You are starving them to death. -OK, fine.

Come in.

Put it over here son.

Here, warden.

What is he doing here?

Now we are even.

Come in my friends, come in.

So, how are you today?

-Selamiinaleykiim, Master. -Waalaikummussalam brother Mehmet, Waalaikummussalam.

Master.

Master, this is our famous Ziibeyr brother.

I know. You are Ziibeyr from Konya.

So, you love us that much to snitch yourself and get into jail eh?

Master I am at your service.

Hodja I am also your admirer.

I know. I know.

Master, our brothers are very worried about you.

They don't have to lorry Mehmet. They don't have to lorry.

Saint Yusuf (Joseph) is the spiritual guide of prisoners.

And this is the Madrasah of Yusuf.

You must be patient. Don't break your unity and solidarity.

Where is this toilet? It will blow up.

Be a little patient brothers.

Sit down.

Guardian! Take us out for the toilet!

Here I am. Why are you shouting?

You will fix it, there.

Hurry up. These friends are in need. Hurry up.

Why haven't you taken us out for the toilet for days?

We will burst! Look at us!

From not on, you will do your toilets here.

Are you joking Mister Hasan?

Will you suffocate us in crap huh? Are we animals?

How can we perform the ablution? How are we supposed to perform namaz?

Hey, look.

This place will stink!

Why are you shouting at me brother? This the order of the warden.

Come on.

Uh, well, sir. Do you think we don't get into any trouble for that?

Don't you lorry warden, this is the definitive solution!

This poison is strong enough to kill an elephant.

The hodja will never appear in the court!

Now take it.

-Here, brother. -Hol am I supposed to?

Out of necessity, brother.

But brother, next to you.

We don't have a choice. Feyzi go nol.

-We will die because of the urine poisoning huh? -They are poisoning us.

Easy brother, easy.

-Mister Hasan. -Yes, hodja.

This tea is too much for me.

Can you give this to my brothers? So that they can drink.

You didn't eat your breakfast hodja.

Go in peace my brother, go in peace.

Hodja sent this for you to drink.

By the lay, your toilet is very nice.

Our master sent tea for us, lets drink!

ZUbeyL

You have a spy with you.

Be careful with Erdal!

No, no.

No it's not me!

Guardian! Help!

You are poisoning our people and youth with your writings.

You are preventing us to progress on our lay to lesternize.

If Divine Light Treatises are poison; we need tons of that poison.

If mister prosecutor knows where that poison is...

...he may transfer us by planes to that place!

Your honors. Said Nursi, with his books, turns the people against the government...

...and aims to prevent the reforms by strengthening the religious linds

And it is very clear that he established a secret society to realize this aim.

Yes, that's right. We established a society.

A society with 350 million members. And our leader is Prophet Mohammed.

Lt says that you are against all the innovations such as radio, train, airplane and cinema!

We are not against the wonders of the civilization. These are all blessings.

Both radio and cinema are blessings if they broadcast useful things...

...but they are disasters if they broadcast deleterious issues.

We are establishing a modern world on our country like the western people.

And you are damaging our world and peace with your writings.

I have nothing to do to with damaging neither your world, nor your peace!

My goal and purpose is something different.

Right in front of me, there is an enormous tire, its flames rising up to the sky.

In this tire, my descent is burning, my faith is set on tire, its burning.

I am running to put the Ere out, I am running for saving my faith. I am telling about Allah.

How dare you! Your honor, here you see!

He disregards the court!

Who do you trust to speak so reckless!

You are insulting the Supreme Court when you say 'you are not my addressee'!

Who do you trust?

To this and to Allah!

We are trusting to our shrouds! To our shrouds.

Bismillah is the beginning of every charity.

We too start with it at the beginning.

Know oh my soul, this holy lord is the mark of Islam. And it is what all the existing creatures...

_.recite it in their own language.

If you want to understand what an endless power, how is an unending blessing the Bismillah is...

...listen to this figurative story!

Here it is:

A man making a journey through the deserts of Arabia...

has to travel in the name of a tribal chief and enter under his protection.

So he maybe saved from the bandits and secure his needs.

We said at the beginning:

All the existing creatures recite Bismillah in their own languages.

Right?

Mister Said. The prosecutor claims that you are the enemy of the republic.

What do you think about the republic?

Your honor. They asked the same question in Eski§ehir court.

My history in that rile proves that I am a religious republican.

The deceased pasha knew that, too.

Your honors!

We are accused of exploiting the religion and breaking the order.

You too know that this is a lie.

I am trying to direct people to Allah and Koran.

Can such people break the order?

For tlenty years, thousands of people have read my writings and found peace.

They never broke the order.

The secret blasphemous committee wants to destroy us...

...by abusing the members of the government, and by misleading the justice.

If the truth is so, then we will tell them with all our power that:

You miserables who sell their religion for the world! Do what you can!

May the world be your demise. And it will be!

If we have millions of heads, they are all worth sacrificing on this lay.

We are ready for every punishment and your death penalties!

Do you have any additional things to say? Is this your last lord?

My last lord: 'Hasbunallah wa ni'mal wakil.'

Allah is enough for us. He is the most beautiful attorney.

Your honor! Excuse me, this is the time for namaz. I will perform the namaz.

No lay! This is against the regulations. You can perform your lapsed pray later on!

No! No Iapsing, I will perform my namaz!

You can't!

Mister prosecutor! We are here to defend namaz!

That's all we are accused of.

I have to confess that this is the hardest case in my professional life.

We should be fair in our decision.

You know the expert's opinion from Ankara.

What do you think about it?

I consider him guilty.

My fellow judge had the same opinion but he is sick.

Only if if he didn't change his mind later on.

His treatment is extended, so he lon't be coming for a long time.

I commissioned Mrs. Asll for the duty. She is examining the file.

In that case, her opinion will be decisive.

Yes?

-Welcome Mrs. Ash. -Thank you sir.

I read the expert's report and the files. I examined the case and gave my decision.

Here it is.

Per curiam!

The evidences presented to our court and the expertise report sent from Ankara...

...have been carefully examined and we arrived at a verdict.

The expert group has determined that there is no element of crime in the books...

...called Treaties of Divine Light as a result of their detailed investigation.

And our court committee has decided that the evidences presented by the prosecution...

...don't qualify to prove the claimed crimes...

...and it has been unanimously decided to dismiss the charges.

Shame on you!

With all the means we provided you, you just couldn't succeed it.

But sir, I included my statement in the expert report, sir.

You are dismissed. Out!

How come we can't handle one single person! After all he is just a man!

But a man who doesn't bow to anybody.

They call him Free Man!

He doesn't listen to anyone, he doesn't accept any offer and he is not afraid of anything.

Remember all the things we offered him.

Properties, goods, money! But he didn't accept any of them.

He thinks that he is free, but we will teach him to live in captivity as a free person.

His freedom will be very distasteful.

Where is he now?

-He is on parole. In Emirda§. -So he is in Emirda§ (Order-Mountain)!

He will see if it is Emirdagj (Order-mountain) or Demirdagj (Iron-mountain)!

Hodja, this mosque is locked.

Everywhere in the world is a mosque for a Muslim, brother.

At this rate, Hitler will finish the Russians.

Russia is a slamp, mister mayor. I think Germans are committing suicide.

Stop, stop!

What is the man doing? How dare he?

Let him, mister mayor. He is harmless.

Is this a place for prayers? Prayers should be performed in the mosque.

Mister mayor. This is the hodja that we are waiting.

Oh! So this is the man Ankara has been hassling for years.

We run into big trouble.

Welcome, hodja.

Thank you.

I am the doctor of the town and also Housing Director Tahir.

I am responsible from your health and housing.

We want to help you settle. Would you like to stay in a hotel or in a house?

-House. -All right.

We have a house, but you will have a drunkard neighbor.

It's better than staying alone in a hotel.

May Allah give you good customers.

Bless you. May Allah be pleased with you.

You have a guest Hasan!

-A guest? -He will reside upstairs.

-Please, hodja! -Selamiinaleykiim! May it be easy.

-Waalaikummussalam. Welcome! -Thank you.

That's fine you brought him here, but I hope he Ion't be uncomfortable from me?

Please, hodja.

We have to leave, hodja.

Thank you brothers. May Allah be pleased with you.

After you, hodja.

This room witnessed some bloodshed. It has been locked for years.

They call it the Death Room.

Mehmet!

Master.

Mehmet! My dear Mehmet.

My brother.

Didn't I tell you to goto your life and children?

It's worth the sacrifice my wife and my children for you, master.

You are my everything. I didn't forget my father's lill.

My dear Mehmet.

Come. Come. Sit.

Come brother, let's take the other lay.

Master, Afyon Governor and Chief of Police visited Emirda§ 5 times...

...and Chief Public Prosecutor visited 2 times in the last 10 days.

What do they want from us, master?

Master! Duck, my master!

Don't be afraid my brother, stand up!

The fate is unique and will not be changed!

What do they want from us, master?

My Brother. They are preparing a trap 10 times bigger than Sheikh Said...

...and Menemen incidents. But we will not fall into this trap!

My Allah.

For the one who knows you, a dungeon is a palace...

...for the one who doesn't know you, even a palace is a dungeon.

...and for the one who doesn't know you, a palace is a dungeon.

My brothers.

The one who knows Allah is in a palace and happy even if in a dungeon.

And the who doesn't know him is in a dungeon and unhappy even if in a palace.

The one who finds Allah, finds everything.

Bismillah is the beginning of each and every charity

Since everything spiritually says Bismillah, we too should begin with it.

We have to give, in the name of Allah. We have to take, in the name of Allah.

We have to love in the name of Allah. We have to hate in the name of Allah.

Hey you, stop.

What are you doing with the Kurdish hodja?

It's forbidden fellows, forbidden!

We have to find another house for our master and take him away from this poisonous workshop.

It's obvious that they put him here to be poisoned and die.

-Assalamualaikum. -Waalaikummussalam, brother.

I brought you tea, hodja.

Thank you.

Don't revere me, brother! Revere Allah!

Hodja, what do they want from you? How can you endure such pressure?

My nature does not tolerate the vileness and indignity mister Hasan.

There were times I wished to die rather than living.

If my religion did not forbid to commit suicide...

...maybe this Said would have been under the ground and had already faded away.

For the faith of the society and millions of Turkish children...

...not even one Said but thousands of Saids may be sacrificed.

This is the secret of my patience mister Hasan.

I better go now, hodja.

Hodja.

I rented a new store. I will move.

Will you allow me to visit you time to time?

What is it, brother? Why you are moving?

Our profession is noisy, dirty and smoky. I don't want to disturb you any longer.

Stop!

Don't enter in! Where are you going?

Don't you know what a restriction is? Put them into jail!

Lock the door.

We have orders, hodja.

You are under house arrest. From not on it is forbidden for you to go out!

Is this a communist country?

Why are you arresting the hodja in the house? Did he cause any harm to anyone?

Is this veteran fought against the Russians for that?

Do you think you really did a good thing?

We are also sorry for your situation! But we are aides, too.

Our mosques are all clean. We have Turkish hodjas in them.

Go and perform your prayers in there.

How can you perform your prayers in a lhitesmith-store!

What have you got to do with that Kurdish hodja?

We are Muslim, too.

This country belongs to all of us. I will let you free.

But I don't want to see you anymore with that stranger! Understand?

Is that clear?

My brothers, I am under an unnecessary pressure and cruelty. I suffer an enormous ordeal.

They luck my house both from inside and outside.

I am lonely in all senses. I am living my life as a sick man in a boring room, without neighbors.

We have to reach to our master somehow.

-Assalamualaikum. -Waalaikummussalam.

My name is Mehmet. I am shopkeeper.

They call me the Hard-Worker around here. This is my son Ceylan.

My name is Mehmet, too. This is our brother Ziibeyr.

-Nice to meet you. -Hello, hello.

We also want to see the hodja.

Sometimes, one day here suffocates me more than one month in prison at Denizli.

It? enough that they have prevented my freedom and liberty lith such a horrible cruelty...

...fur 20 years.

Is it too much to ask for the freedom everybody has? Your brother Said.

Allah makes everything good. Allah...

Master! Master! What happened to you?

Master.

-My brothers. -Is he poisoned again?

They haven't given me bread or later for 15 days.

Master, we brought some food for you! My name is Ceylan.

Fifteen days.

Bismillah.

Master, I fix radios. People always ask me.

They ask if a Muslim should fix radios.

They say that I help people listen to songs.

My brother. You are acquiring merits for all the Koran letters come out...

...from every radio you fixed. A man can say good lords and the bad lords.

Should we cut out the mouth in case of a bad word?

From not on lets print the treatises not in Arabic script, but in Latin script.

No master. We shouldn't change the Arabic script le've been using for a thousand years.

Now they teach the Latin script in schools.

All the correspondences, magazines, newspapers are in Latin script.

We are minority nol.

People who can read the Arabic script have decreased.

But master...

Don't move! Everybody stand up!

Up!

How could you enter in even though we sealed the door? Did you dig a tunnel huh?

Chief! We found the secret entrance! They dug a hole on the la!! and entered Chief!

Mister Doctor, you too?

What do you think?

Take them all into the jail except Hodja!

Take the doctor to the mayor! Hurry up!

But this is ridiculous Doctor! How can you join them?

He is a reactionary! A reactionary!

Mayor, how can a man who has acquitted from various courts be a reactionary?

This hodja is not an enemy of our homeland or enemy of the sate. He is a republican.

If Ankara Iasn't scared so much, would they continuously request information from us?

I have been to many conversations with him. All he tells us is to believe in Allah...

...to read a lot, be a honest person, and to achieve wealth by working hard.

He feels very sorry for the ignorance of our people.

Have you ever read what he had written?

Yes, I have. He wants unification, and he wants brotherhood. But they don't let him.

Who do they think we are?

We govern not only Turkey, but the whole world.

We created a hero out of him.

The more we strike, the more he grows.

I am afraid he will take the army and the state on his side.

He has students from military officers and parliament members.

It is time to change our policy.

We will not touch him anymore. In other words, we will forget him.

But sir, how come?

If we forget him, then everyone does.

Your house arrest is over, hodja.

Hodja left the house! Hodja left the house!

Mayor asked a bribe from me!

Mayor asked a bribe from me!

Brothers, this is the fate of the tyrants who take bribes.

Our master asks for you.

Look mister officer. Being a policeman is a very important duty.

He prevents unjustice, he protects the aggrieved ones.

He saves the properties and honor of the people.

You are the physical guards of this nation, and we are the spiritual guards.

Together, we serve to the order of our nation.

Hodja, all the things they say about you confuse me.

They say that you are an enemy of the republic.

And...

...they say that you are a reactionary.

They even say that you insulted the Pasha.

Did you really see him?

I mean the Pasha, did you speak with him?

Listen brother.

After the victory, Pasha invited me to Ankara.

He offered me a mansion, a farm and ten thousand Iiras as salary for working together with him.

I didn't accept the offer.

I said, 'My duty ends there. The nation should have everything.'

Congratulations for your your speech in congress, hodja.

Especially your lords on science and knowledge grabbed my attention.

Pasha, the mind is satisfied with sciences.

And the soul is satisfied with religious knowledge.

When these two come together the truth emerges.

CHAMBER OF SPEAKER OF THE CONGRESS ANKARA 1922

Mental and physical progress is the greatest power today

Because the Europeans are crushing us with their mental pressure...

...powered by their weapons of science and industry.

That's why we must tight through science and arts against ignorance, poverty, and conflict...

...which are the most powerful enemies of spreading the unity of Allah.

Hodja, I admire your struggle, your attitude and honesty.

We will make some reforms. And we need your support while doing so.

For example we want to ease off the issues such as alcohol and dressing code.

Neither the authority nor the promises of Allah will ever change.

These gospels are the biggest happiness.

He is the one who gave the earth to your command...

...for you to lalk on it with justice and eat the food Allah provides.

Pasha! Pasha! Make reforms on science and art, but to don't try to ease of! Koran's orders!

We allays need a brave hodja like yourself.

We invited you here to benefit from your high ideas.

Hodja! Hodja!

I respect you since the day you spoke in Thessalonica.

Don't interfere to our reforms. Live free!

I saw confusion in Ankara.

A new generation must be educated for the faith of this nation.

Oh, hodja. I am under command and pressure. Please try to understand my position.

I don't want to follow you, either. Do you think I enjoy it?

Oh hodja. Besides, do you know that my grandfather is an Alaii Sheikh.

We are brothers.

I honestly love the true Alalis and our esteemed master Ali.

Our master Ali could perform his morning prayer with his evening ablution.

He las very sensitive about the praying.

Ah by hodja, please. Do not strive with this order, leave it!

Brother!

My 30 years of struggle is about...

...giving answers to European philosophers who are working in the name of irreligion.

This Pasha. What has he said 15 days before he died?

Read it.

He sent this message to all the Muslims in the world.

Moreover he announced this via Prime Ministry and Foreign Affairs channels.

All Muslims should follow the path that the last Prophet Mohammed showed...

...and should practice his instructions.

All the Muslims should take Prophet Mohammed as a model and act as he did.

They should obey the orders of Islam as they are.

Because people can only survive and develop in this lay.

He shouldn't have said that.

The reactionaries can take courage from this and they can queer our pitch.

Cover this up immediately. Also inform the queen.

Write, my brother Mehmet!

To the Members of the Parliament, to the Prime Minister, to the President of the Republic.

Gentlemen. Our mission is to strengthen the people's faith.

To live fraternally, without discriminating the friend and the enemy, and without partisanship.

Write, my brother Ceylan.

To Chief Rabbinate, To Vatican Pontificate.

In this recent times; we the Christians, Jews and Muslims should put aside...

...our controversies and we have to join forces...

...against our common enemies such as immorality, irreligion and depravation.

We have to be unified and act together on the path of Allah.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

My valuable, loyal, gallant brothers...

...being friends with great nation such as America which works for the religion...

...can only be achieved by faith and Islam.

We, as the servers of Koran, declare this to them and we also pray...

...for their success at sewing Islam.

Allah's willing.

An mighty Aman.

An mighty Aman.

Bismillah is the beginning of each and every charity We, too start with it. Know oh my soul.

Ismet.

You lost yourself.

Please collect yourself a little. Look, we are here.

-My dear father, welcome. -Leave me alone.

I don't feel good. I don't. I spent my life for the government.

I helped them catch hundreds of enemies of the state.

But they chucked me out when I am finished. I don't feel good.

Hello.

It is for you.

This old man lent too far.

He wrote a letter to the parliament members, commissioners, to ambassadors.

He even wrote to the Pope. How dare he!

This men is not establishing a state, but an emperorship.

We shouldn't have left him alone.

Please.

Come in.

Ismet.

Good afternoon sir.

Good afternoon.

Do you think you will succeed this time?

Yes sir.

So, what are you planning to do?

The prosecutor started an investigation about Saidi Nursi.

7 cult members were caught yesterday during rituals.

Saidi Nursi incident is spreading.

An reactionary organization is found out

3 cult members in Ankara and 1 cult members in inebolu is arrested.

Your honor.

You brought a lot of people here because of me, and you are trying them.

Who brought them? Who brought them?

Did they steal anything?

Did they kill someone, abduct a girl...

...overthrow the government? What did they do?

Where are the witnesses? You brought all these innocent people with lies and untruths.

Don't they have children?

Now who will provide their living?

Who will pay for the harm those fatherless children got?

Will you be testifying for them beyond the veil?

I'm warning you!

Do not fight with Divine Light's Treatises which is based on Koran.

It cannot be defeated.

Ifl had many heads as much as the hairs on my head...

...even if you decapitate one of them each day, they may be sacrificed for the truths of Koran.

I will not bow to blasphemy and irreligionl

I will never give up my duty for the faith!

With Allah's willing, this court lill break the plans and attacks of our secret enemies.

Mister Hodja, tell us, how many students do you have?

You turn the entire Afyon City into a prison and I will tell you.

Hodja hodja! Why don't you mind your own business at this age!

Are you responsible from people's faith or Koran?

Why do you care? Go and live your life!

Faith is a divine light, a power. I'm willing to burn in the flames of hell...

...If I'm going to see that the people's faith is secured.

Because my soul will be in a bed of roses when my body burns in flames.

I have no desire for the paradise nor the fear of hell.

So, are you challenging the court and justice?

No!

I have trust to the loyalty of court members for the justice, and also to justice itself!

My lords...

Defendant Mullah Said. Stand up!

Why doesn't he talk?

Because he can't End anything to say.

You are tried for your life with the charges to cause the events on 31st March...

...by your provocative articles on Volkan newspaper...

...and by various social movements that you organized.

Oh you pashas, officers!

My purpose is to save the constitution from the defect...

...to save the religious people from the despair...

...and in the eyes of history, to save the people of this century from ignorance and madness...

...from anxieties and doubts!

So you have demanded Sharia like others. Is that so?

Yes! I want Sharia, too. But, not like the revolutionists want!

Ifl had thousands of souls, I am ready to sacrifice them all for a single truth of Sharia!

Because Sharia means justice, honesty, virtue!

And you have provoked the people, the students, the officers and the porters to revolt.

On the contrary! I directed them from revolt to obedience with all my speeches and articles!

Really?

Look. Look outside.

You may end next to them.

I lived freely on the east mountains of Kurdistan.

Your menaces will not affect me!

No! My son is not a bandit.

He will never hurt any living creature.

He is a great gallant, famous scholar respected by the eastern clans and scholars!

You are tyrannizing to such a hero.

Your honor! Justice! Justice!

Rule with the justice, don't tyrannize!

Sit down old man. I don't understand even a lord that you say.

Father, don't lorry.

Allah have justice.

You cannot horrify me with death!

I prefer to die tyrannized rather than be a tyrant!

I will gladly depart to afterlife from the station of gallows...

...with the execution passport that you will give me.

Long live hell for the tyrants!

-Long live hell for the tyrants! -Long live hell for the tyrants!

Long live hell for the tyrants!

Long live hell for the tyrants!

We are listening to you Mister Hodja.

My lords, your honor, isn't directed to yourself or the judges...

...but to the secret godless committee who try to manipulate the court and abuse it!

And to the obsequious people who betray this nation.

With Allah's willing, this court lill break the plans and attacks of our secret enemies.

Verdict.

Allah makes everything good. Allah makes everything beautiful.

Allah makes everything good. Allah makes everything beautiful.

Hit. Hit. Hit.

Look, you tell us the truth and le'll set you free.

What do you say?

My brothers! Let's try to endure and not shout so loudly.

Our voices shouldn't reach to our master and torment him!

Hit. Hit. Hit stronger.

Enough! He will die.

Stop it.

Where did you hide the weapons?

You have weapons don't you? Speak up.

We have... We have...

He is confessing. Write it down, write.

What kind of weapons do you have?

Which are destroying the ignorance, illuminating the darkness.

We have weapons which are challenging against all the tyrants of the world.

We have nuclear bombs.

He is making fun of us! Nuclear bomb, huh! Nuclear bomb. Nuclear bomb.

Hit. Hit.

Long live hell for the tyrants.

Oh you miserable ones who burden me!

I don't care whatever you do to me!

The cruelties that you unlawfully committ...

...the pressures which touch my veins terrorize everyone but enrages me.

But it has been warned into my heart...

...'Don't rage against these tyrants but pity them, because they lill be...

...subjected to hellish tortures physically and mentally for the cruelties they have committed.

Your revenge will be taken from them thousand times!

They will have deadly qualms of conscience as long as they live!

Even though the windows of hodja's lard were broken, he didn't freeze.

Sir, please come.

Have a look.

Even that we applied too much pressure, we couldn't make them talk.

They didn't talk but they have cringed, look at them.

I don't think so sir.

Continue to torture, warden! Keep the pressure.

They will be scared! They will be really scared and they will say everything!

Come on hodja, you are lucky again.

Salt dealer Avni from Afyon has sent these to you.

Since I don't accept any presents, I lon't also take them. Give them back.

Brothers. Stand straight. Be gladsome.

It's time to end this.

Hodja, you have to be inoculated.

Open your arm hodja.

-H ere. -It is for your own health, hodja.

-Get well hodja. -For your own health hodja.

Oh Healer oh Allah!

Oh Healer oh Allah.

Oh Healer...

...oh Allah.

Oh Healer oh Allah!

Oh Healer oh Allah!

Oh Healer oh Allah!

Please heal me, Allah!

Mother. Mother.

Mother. Mother.

Mother.

BEKiR AGHA WARD- iSTANBUL 1909

Said.

Will they execute you my son?

What will I do if you die, My Said?

The hawk of the Eastern Mountains, my gallant son!

I am proud of you.

The truth will always lin.

My son. Your mother may die for you.

I missed you too much my son!

Look what I brought for you.

This is the oregano of our mountains.

I know you like it.

And this is the soil of our village.

It is very cold.

Please take care of yourself huh?

My Said.

My Said do not forget! You are a man of struggle!

My struggle.

My struggle, my struggle.

Uncle Hodja! Uncle Hodja, what happened to you?

Mehmed! Ziibeyr?

It's me, Bayram.

Brother, I am dying.

My master, my master, what happened?

-Don't leave us my master, please! -My brothers, they poisoned me again.

Damn with them, master!

I am dying! Dying!

Guardian! Come on!

Cravens! They have poisoned our master!

Where is the doctor? Master is dying!

Guardian!

Brothers! I am very ill, perhaps I lon't survive.

All my existence may be sacrificed for motherland, nation, youth, the Islam lorld...

...for the happiness and welfare of the human!

If I die, may my friends not take my revenge!

You will endure some troubles but it will end all good.

-Long live my master! -Get well my master.

Allah makes everything good. Allah makes everything beautiful.

Get well, my master.

Here, master.

I had promised you.

I am Sadlk, master. Sadlk.

Sadlk. Shepherd Sadlk!

I missed you very much, master. Very much.

Hodja has survived again. Hodja is free again.

There is something in this system. There is something in this system.

Hello.

It's for you, sir.

Yes?

Mr. ismet, welcome.

Please wait for a while. The president is here but he has a foreign visitor.

Please take a seat. l'll bring you a cup of coffee.

Friends. Now I will tell you the new world order.

You were the rulers in Asia, Europe and Africa.

But you couldn't succeed.

The queen of the empire on which the sun never sets, is finished.

That's why we are taking over the new world order.

We will not establish this new order on bans and threats like you did...

...but on cooperation basis. We care a lot about Turkey.

This place has a history of emperorship.

We have to lurk lith the public especially to prevent any more heroes.

The Ottoman spirit should never lake up.

The people of this country must allays consider themselves helpless.

They must allays be dependent to us.

But sir. This hodja is not an ordinary person. He is like Gandhi of India.

Gandhi collaborated with us. Now he establishes his government.

Mister ismet?

Mister ismet Ihat's wrong?

Welcome hodja, welcome.

Assalamualaikum.

Waalaikummussalam.

Hodja, welcome hodja. Welcome

Thank you Sevket.

Hodja, not I'm your student, too.

Hello. Hello my friends in Barla.

Hello my faithful brothers who open their hearts for me! Hello.

Allah makes everything good, makes everything beautiful.

-Welcome hodja. -Thank you.

-Welcome hodja. -Thank you.

Welcome master.

Brother Mehmet, if Allah willing, the services of Koran will develop more and more.

All the world will be enlightened with the divine light.

With Allah willing master. With the blessing of your pray, hopefully.

Welcome my hodja.

Welcome hodja.

Forgive our mistakes.

We don't support animosity, but friendship.

Hodja.

Hodja.

Will you accept me as a student?

Please forgive me hodja.

My brothers!

We hurried up and came in linter.

You will come in a heavenly spring!

Our duty is to act positively, not to act negatively.

I carefully analyzed the ones who tyrannized me.

There aren't any Turks among them.

Because, there is not a tyrannizing vein in the real Turkish people.

I Ion't have a temper or complain about the people who tormented me.

I forgive them.

May Allah also forgive them.

Allah is the most merciful of the mercy showers.

Allah speaks the truth!

We are all like the leaves of this maple tree. We have to clamp together.

Oh my friends who gave their hearts to Koran, the seeds of Divine Light that has been sow...

...will blossom on earth.

As a payment of our services we are not expecting from you...

...to visit us at our graves when you come to pass away.

Put some of those spring flowers on the gravestone. And pray for us.

We will advise to the doorkeeper. You will be welcomed.

I can live without bread. I can not live without freedom.

What gives me pain is only the menaces which Islam is exposed to.

In the past, the menaces were coming from outside, so it las easy to tight against them.

Now, the menace comes lithin. The lorm entered into the body.

Now, the fight became harder.

I am afraid that the body of our society can not succumb.

Because, they lon't sense the enemy.

They'II think that the biggest enemy who tears their vital vein off, who drinks their blood is a friend

If the society's eye is blinded, then the fortress of the faith will be in danger.

This is my agony, this is my one and only agony.

I don't have time to think about the pains and troubles that I experienced personally.

Iwish that I encounter pains thousand times more than this...

...but the future of the fortress of faith be secured.

I see all the big heads in negligence.

The corrupted columns of the blasphemy can not hold the fortress of faith.

Therefore, I concentrated all my efforts on faith.

They ask me: Why you attacked this and that?

I am unaware.

Right in front of me, there is an enormous tire, its flames rising up to the sky.

In this tire, my descent is burning, my faith is set on tire, its burning.

I am running to put the Ere out, I am running to save my faith.

On my lay, somebody wants to stop me and my foot hits him, what does it matter?

Against such a horrible tire, will this small event mean anything?

Narrow minds! Small minds!

Do they think that I am a man who wants to save his own soul?

Throughout my eighty years of life, l've known nothing about the worldly pleasures.

I spent a whole life in battle fields, in slavery dungeons, or in homeland's prisons...

...homeland's courtrooms. There is no torment or cruelty left that I didn't experience.

I have been treated like a criminal in the court martial.

I have been sent to exile from a place to another like a Vagabond.

I got disciplinary segregations in homeland prisons for months.

I have been poisoned many times.

I have suffered various affronts.

There were times I wished to die rather than living.

If my religion didn't forbid me to commit suicide...

...maybe this Said would be under the ground and already molded away.

Then, I have sacrificed my afterlife for the salvation of society's faith.

I have no desire for the paradise nor the fear of hell.

Not only one Said, but thousands of Saids may be sacrificed for the society...

...not only for the tlenty live millions of people in Turkish society...

...but for the whole Islam society with hundreds of millions.

If our Koran stays on earth without community, I don't want to be in heaven because...

...it will be a dungeon for me. I'm willing to burn in the flames of hell...

...If I'm going to see that the people's faith is secured.

Because my soul will be in a bed of roses, when my body burns in flames.