'File 5/C Boundary questions: attacks on Ikhwan; dispute between Shaikh Salim and Ibn Sa`ud' [‎83r] (165/230)

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You did not deign even to write a few lines.
(3) You sent a party of the ♦lutair* and ’AJimn*
(probably meaning settlers of these tribes
in Koweit, who acted on behalf of 3alim) who
molested the inhabitants of Qaraiyah. Yet you
did not inform me in writing or by massenger.
(4) You issued a •prohibition order* in Koweit
stopping all exports to Bin Baud’s ( ay) ports.
(5) You seem to have forgotten that the xutair were my
subjects.
Kindly inform me. May God save you ( Allah Yusal-
liimk)on these five points. What would have happened to
those people who were put to serious trouble, if they had
had none to protect them; but they have both a protector
and a ruler, and he is your brother ( myself). In this you
did not treat them with a good policy; you said also that
your action was in accordance with religion. You could
not, if you think thus, know the good from the bad. Buch
methods as yours canSooly result In trouble, y subjects
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suffered in three wO- They were put to (1) personal
worry (2) uneasiness (3) They were brought to that state
of mind and doubt which ended in inflaming their religious
fanaticism to such an extent as to make them ready to turn
on any one who provoked or interfered with them* I was
myself extremely surprised to hear of this state of affairs
and at first was in doubt as to the causes that led to
them. Any one, naturally, v/ould wonder what was at the
back of these h&Pbenings \ (hrhat are the r^al facts). Of a
sudden (my irritate4)P«0Pl« found *BaiJ • marching out
against them, he even reached HADTH, and as this action
came on top of the many upsetting happenings (above men
tioned) they (naturally) believed that DaiJ had come out
to attack them. Then followed what God had ordained as
He hath said in the Holy Quran (Quotation)
"You cannot form a plan or execute your intention
unless God Hinself wills it to be do-ne".