in a thronging mass to carry the body the short distance to the Dergah. Everyone wanted to touch the bier, and it was passed from hand to hand as is the custom; after close on two hours it was only with the assistance of soldiers and police, who opened up the way, that it was brought finally to the Dergah and buried.
It was still raining. That night the recitations of the Qur'an continued unccasingly over the grave. Bediuzzaman was now resting near the Patriarch Abraham, the Friend of the Most Merciful. The tomb in which he had been laid had been built in 1954 by a local Seyh called Seyh Muslim, while repairs were being made to the Dergah. He three times had a dream in which he was told that the tomb belonged to another, as a result of which he ordered that on his death he be buried in the general graveyard. And so they buried Bediuzzaman in the tomb, but it was to be only a temporary resting-place for him.

• The Military Junta Orders the Removal of Bediuzzaman's, Remains to on Unknown Spot

The military coup Bediuzzaman had foretold occurred on 27 May ,1960. Foremost Menderes and leading members of his Government, and Democrat Deputies, officials, and sympathizers were all rounded up and placed in various camps and prisons. A campaign against the Risale-i Nur Students and movement was embarked on. Once again the searches, confiscations, arrests, imprisonment, and court cases began. Hundreds of Risale-i Nur Students were subject to this new wave of vengeful repression. The country was now governed by the so-called `National Unity Committee', and the decision was taken to move Bediuzzaman's remains to an unknown spot. They could not Ieave him in peace in his grave even, just as they had hounded and harassed him up to his last moments in this world. Bediuzzaman's brother writes:
"It was in early July and three and a half months since my elder brother's death. I had performed the midday prayers on time in the house I rented near Mevlana’s tomb in Konya when the Special Branch Chief, whose name I learnt was Ibrahim Yüksel, came. He told me that the Govemor wanted me. Together we went to the