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tectors of El Islam, and champions* of the peoples (the Chris- 
tians), that if they break through them to get at us, and attack 
us, there is no good of life, and no sufficiency in a host. But 
God is our reliance : surely He outwits every deceiver, betrays 
every traitor, and makes every unbeliever a liar. For He says, 
in his book, to us, and to his Prophet, * God is your stay, 
and those of the believers that follow you.'f ' If they try to 
deceive you, then God is your support. It is He that has 
strengthened you with His help, and with the faithful, and 
has united their hearts. J It is, then, by the religion of God 
that we are exalted, and are victorious. Religion is weak 
only through its professors §. The blessing of the Book of 
God, and the blessing of his Prophet, be on us and with us I 
So let not fear seize any Moslim that they should deceive him 
and cheat him, on the ground that there is rebellion against 
the cause of God among them, and that the Sunna of His 
Prophet is violated among them. And whatever there is of 
slaughter and battle with him, let him suppress it for its 
day ; for the weakest of men in sense, and the mightiest of 
them in ignorance, is he who rushes to evil when its season 
has not come, and who is no match for it on the day when 
it arrives. And as for me, brethren ! I have written for the 
Englishman specially a general safe-conduct, in which I have 
included every one in my land, and have added thereto your 
land, in reliance on your religion and your sure conviction, 
and in dependence on your intelligence and humanity. Do 
you then write for him as I have written, on the condition 
of our being subject to our Imam, our Lord, ' Abd e' Rahman, 
and our Sultan, 'Abd el Mejid ; and be not like the people of 
Nukkuma, for they are like the deaf and dumb, since they are 
offensive to me. Lo, I love my guest the Christian ! Be 
* El Bakay means the Emperor of Morocco and the Sultan. 
I Sur. viii. 65. J Sur. viii. 64. 
