While they were doing this, I looked around, and although I could not see very well, the place resembled a mountain-side. There was a wall about a metre in height. I climbed onto it and looked around; there was not a light to be seen. Everywhere was in complete darkness.
"They buried the coffin. The work was finished. An N.C.O. said to me: `Do you want to stay here tonight, Hoca, or do you want to return home?' I thought, what shall I do if I stay here... A short time later a black car arrived. The driver was a soldier. I got in and it set off. After travelling for about one and a half hours we approached a town with lights. I asked the driver where the lights were, what town. He replied, `Egridir.' We continued on our way and I returned to my house in Konya at eight or nine o'clock."
Thus. due to this barbaric act, Bediuzzaman found his final resting-place in his beloved Isparta in accordance with his wishes, and so too, with the exception of two or three of his closest students, and a small number of offcials bound to secrecy by oath, the location of his grave remains unknown.
Finally, in some couplets entitled Eddai (The Supplicant), included in the introduction to Leme'at, a sizeable collection of pieces written in `semiverse' and first published in 1921, Bediuzzaman foretold both the year of his death and that his grave would be demolished. A literal translation is as follows:
My demolished grave in which is heaped up*
Seventy-nine dead Said's** with his sins and sorrows.
The eightieth is a gravestone to a grave;
Altogether they weep*** at Islam's decline.
Together with my gravestone and moaning grave of dead Said's
I go forward to the field of tomorrow's future.
I am certain that the skies of the future and Asia
Will together surrender to Islam's clean, shining hand.
For it promises the prosperity of belief;
It affords peace and security to mankind.
Bediuzzaman's footnotes are as follows; the second and third he added in the 1950's:
* This line is his signature.
** Since the body is renewed twice every year, it means that (each year) two Said’s have died . Also ,this year Said is in his seventy-ninth year .It means one Said has died every year , so that he