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1874.] J. O’Kinealy —History and Doctrines of the Wahhabis . 
on the Unity of God, which contains all the arguments supported hy their 
sentences hearing on it, in the Qoran and the Hadis which are muwatir , so 
that the souls might he comforted. And we compiled from extracts of 
it a smaller pamphlet fit for the common people which we commanded he 
distributed in their places of meeting, read in their assemblies and explained 
to them by the divines, so that hy learning the doctrine of the Unity of 
God, and seizing it with a firm grasp, they might awake to the knowledge of 
shirk, and become careful. The pamphlet is as follows : 
In the name of God , the Merciful and Compassionate ! 
Know that God has been kind to you, inasmuch as you are the best of 
the race of Abraham, and worship God in a pure manner. The Lord 
commanded all mankind to do so, and it was for this purpose He created 
them, as He said, “ I only created the Jins and mankind to worship.” 
Then know that God created you to worship Him, and know that there 
cannot he worship without belief in the Unity of God, just as He will not 
listen to a prayer unless offered up after purification. When shirk enters 
into any form of worship, it vitiates it, as is related in the Hadis. Also He 
has said, “ Mushriks are not in a position to worship the Lord, since they 
testify against themselves that they are infidels. Their acts shall not avail 
them, and they shall burn for all eternity.” Therefore, whoever calls upon 
other than God entreating him to grant something which is only within His 
power, such as obtaining a benefit or avoiding a misfortune, he, indeed, is 
guilty of shirk in his worship, as the Lord has said, “ Those who go astray and 
call upon others beside the Lord, shall not be answered, even until the 
day of judgment; and those on whom they call, shall not heed them ; and 
when mankind shall rise again from the dead, they will look upon their 
supplicators as their enemies, and their worship as infidelity.” Again, the 
Lord has said, “ Those whom you supplicate other than Me, can avail you 
nothing. When you supplicate them, they will not hear your supplica¬ 
tion, and even should they hear you, they will not answer, and instead 
of speaking in your favour, they will adjudge you infidels on the day of 
judgment.” In short, the Lord exalted and blessed has declared that 
entreating others than Him is shirk ; therefore, whoever says, “ Oh prophet 
of God,” or “ Oh Ibn ’Abbas,” or “ Oh ’Abdul Qadir,” or “ Oh beloved,” 
&c., thinking that the person supplicated is a way unto the Lord, or an 
interceder with Him, or a means to Him, he is a Mushrik : his blood shall he 
shed, and his property confiscated unless he repent. And in the same way, 
whoever kills an animal in the name of other than God, or makes a vow to 
him or puts trust in him, hopes to he benefited, or fears to he injured by him, 
or asks him for assistance in those things which belong to God alone, he 
is a Mushrik, of whom the Lord has said, those who are guilty of shirk 
