Translations:Yirmi Sekizinci Mektup/151/en

The officials here utilize government influence for their own personal grudges. But I offer a hundred thousand thanks to Almight y God, and by way of making known His bounties, I say this: All this oppression and tyranny of theirs is like pieces of wood for the fire of ardour and endeavour which illuminates the lights of the Qur’an; it makes them flare up and shine. And those lights of the Qur’an, which have suffered this persecution of theirs and have spread with the heat of endeavour, have made this province, indeed, most of the country, into a medrese in place of Barla. They supposed me to a prisoner in a village. On the contrary, in spite of the atheists, Barla has become the teaching desk, and many places, like Isparta, have become the medrese.