'ملف رقم 9/50 (B 16) حادث دبي' [و‎‎٩‎٢] (٤٩٢/١٩٤)

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-ra ! a + io;. or a dopy of a letter received (in repl^V
by -IP Highness the Sultan ot Muscat, from Shaikh Bati bin r\
Suhail of Dehai. ^
a.oux c. ^eemfccl .Let r er dated 7th Moharram. Iggg (6th
January 19H) reached me and your friend understood its entire
oo .tf..i-, , <■ jfcieliy the Pour' things required, without which
they will not he satisfied. Also that those are not strange
to you.
" € ■ Ii '-t'vf 11-virishe l -; Ic, ow that every side (part
countxj, ; so..ot i^itf l \ i &. l control over it, excepting the
portion occupied by various tribes and Arabs. Misery and
poverty are raging among them, with the result that they are
-tiu^lxag, looting and killing among themselves. Each tribe
has adopted its own course and each is dealing with and proud
of its own nearest supporter, while those who are ruling over
tnem are exerting themselves in every way ("by money and
endeavour") and cannot still acquire pexTnanent control over
them. Then, what will be the case if God put them under a
mfSijr 0:f i-itexvention by aliens 7 0 God! that would
'e a great revolution. In that case who can boast to have a
control over those Arabs of the desert (interior) who, since
Goa created them, have lived as stated above. Besides those,
there are stupid people who live on diving and who have neither
oen^e nox intelligence, and as may be said, are fish-witted ?
One who may have not had perfect knowledge of the
people o.i Oma.,i, may be deceived by their apparent condition,
©lid Jnay not kaow the Ara ! 's nature, whom none can master
(co itrol) except by kindness; who fly by injustice or wrong,
-oux uo de re If if, by God's grace, wise and acquainted with
extexuaI a u intex-nal condition, and if you will consider you
vvilx fee that Oman and its people are different from those of
other