ملف رقم ٣٣٠٠ لسنة ١٩١٦ الجزء ١ "نشرات عدن: (يونيو ١٩١٦ إلى ديسمبر ١٩١٦" [و‎‎٤‎٤‎٥] (٣٤٨/٢٦٩)

Apyjt le iVr M-
COPY.
Prom,
To f
A.C.
Sulfran Ab4uX Karim bin Pa4I bin All,
Th« A B D A L I •
Imaa Y«hia bin HamiA-Ud-Bin,
of K K If A K .
Herewith we enclose ©opy of a letter for your
lordehip** perusal *hioh letter had been addressed to
some of the Sheikhs of the Aulaki country ifoo are our
allies.
We do not think that it will please your lordship
or that it should rather be presumed that it was written
under your eminent order.
Oh ay lord such letters are issued very frequently
by your Mukadaas now-a-days and it is very surprising to
see our fellow countrymen are calling and urging us to
enslave ourselves to the Turkish yoke. Does not such
people fear Qod and have consideration for the kinship,
ties of relation and neighbourhood (they bear towards one
another) that they are trying to put them (Arabs) into
the paws & jaws of the wild Anatolians, the aggressors
under whose hands your people had severely suffered for
years ? Indeed it is not eonteotplated that those Who are
expected to recover the glory of the original owners in
of
whose account the Prophet (May the blessingfGod be on
him) had said as under:-
The rulers are from Kuraish (cited by the Bakari)
The Kingdoms are of Kuraish (cited in Mishkat Al-
Hasabih)
The Khalifs (Caliphs) are of Kuraish cited in
volume II of Al-Jama* As-Zaghir,
to Invite their countrymen and helpers of the Arabs to
surrender and become slaves to foreigners ? We never