'File 5/C Boundary questions: attacks on Ikhwan; dispute between Shaikh Salim and Ibn Sa`ud' [‎85r] (169/230)

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i'ranalation of thw supplimant to Bin Baud's ITstter
dated 4th dhawwal 1338 (21at June,1920) to Shaikh Salim As-
Bubah, Huler of koweit.
After compliments
lou know that the affairs of this world depend upon
two things, the first and highest being ahariyah, the second
being perseverenoe and forethought, as the poet says:-
"The most careful man is he who does not do anything
until he hae fully looked into the consequences of
the intended action"•
kou, of course, realize that these unfortunate matters
which have recently happened and the consequent disputes and
struggles about boundaries and subjects have not been started by
me at all* lou alone have been the cause though I hope now they
are as good as settled and our minds are at peace* Let every one
remain within his own boundaries, I say* I would, however, like
first to explain to you all I have in mind, and you are best awar<
of what you have in your own mind* I donot know if you have
different ideas on the subject*
¥ou know that from the day God created As-Saud and As-
Bubah, never have they said,"This is our boundary, these are our
subjects*•
The Ae-Subah confined themselves to loweit while the
As-Saud looked after their own affairs,neither party having any
doubt or difficulty* In the past when misfortune came upon Kejd
it was split up into two parts, one going to the Turks and partly
Ajman domination (iiassa) and the other under Bin Rashid* In thosi
days any one who found himself pressed upon too hardly or tyriniz*
ed over by any of these three took refuge in koweit, because it
was all one"Tarifah"(class)• Things went on in this way till
Muhammad bin Bubah died. After Mubarak had succeeded to the
principality of koweit I was at loweit. He used to give "Zakah"
(pecuniary heip)to those of Morthern and Southern Arabs who used
to come down to him* They used to take refuge alternately with
him, with Bin Rashid and Turks* When I occupied Hassa your
father was still paying ^600/- to the Turks in place of the
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