1874.] J. O’Kmealy— History and Doctrines of the Wahhabis . G9 
“ Labbaika,” without fear of any created being, and only of the Lord God. 
Now, though we were more numerous, better armed and disciplined than the 
people of Makkah, yet we did not cut down their trees, neither did we hunt, 
nor shed any blood except the blood of victims, and of those four-footed 
beasts which the Lord has made lawful by his commands. 
When our pilgrimage was over, we gathered the people together on 
the forenoon of the first day of the week, and our leader, whom the Lord 
save, explained to the divines what we required of the people, and for 
which we would slay them, viz., a pure belief in the Unity of God Almighty. 
He pointed out to them that there was no dispute between us and them 
except on two points, and that one of these was a sincere belief in the 
unity of God, and a knowledge of the different kinds of prayer of which 
did a was one. He added that to shew the significance of ‘ shirk,’ the prophet 
(may he be blessed!) had put people to death on account of it; that he 
had continued to call upon them to believe in the Unity of God for 
some time after he became inspired, and that he had abandoned 
shirk before the Lord had declared to him the remaining four pillars 
of Islam. The second point related to actions lawful and unlawful as 
prohibited. He said that as regards these they retained but the name, 
while the use, nay any vestige of them, had altogether disappeared. 
Then they jointly and severally admitted that our belief was best, and 
promised the Amir to be guided by the Qoran and the Sunnat. He accepted 
their promise and pardoned them. Neither did he give any of them the least 
annoyance, nor cease to treat them with the greatest friendship, especially 
the divines. And he spoke to them of our faith, publicly and privately 
giving them proofs of what he believed. We, too, asked them to discourse and 
confer with us and to speak the truth without reservation. Moreover, we 
explained to them what the Amir had spoken to them publicly, and pointed 
out the proofs of it in the Qoran and the Sunnat, and in the conduct of our 
spotless ancestors, such as the orthodox Caliphs who ruled over their 
followers. For the prophet had said, “ upon you be my Sunnat, and the 
Sunnat of the orthodox Caliphs after me.” We also gave them proofs from 
the four Imams, Doctors of Divinity, and those who were instructed by 
them up to the third generation after the prophet, according to his saying : 
“ Well, for you is my generation, next that which follows, and after it the 
succeeding generation.” Again we pointed out to them that we were searchers 
after truth wheresoever it might be, and obeyed those proofs which were 
clear and open without caring whether they were opposed to what our 
ancestors had or had not done. In fine, they were not able to chide us for 
a single thing, while we showed them their errors in asking help in their 
necessities from the dead; and as they had still some a few doubts about it, 
we removed them by relevant proofs from the Qoran and the Sunnat. They 
