Khatamul Awliyā'

Seal of the Saints 10

(Muslims) will defeat the Romans such a defeat that has never been heard of
before and they will kill the king of the Romans. In the Third War, whoever left by
sea will return and will join them whoever from them fled by land." Nua'im bin
Hammad's Kitab Al-Fitān

20.] "Then he (Al-Qahtāni) will send a man from the people of the West, heavy-built
with broad shoulders, who will kill whoever he meets in the battle, until he enters
Baytul Maqdis. Then he will be injured by an animal and die. At that time the world
(Caliphate) will be in the worst state that it has ever been." Nua'im bin Hammad's
Kitab Al-Fitān

21.]  Ibid
22.]  cf. FN 19

23.]  cf. FN 11

24.]  Ibn Umar said that the Prophet, SAAS, said, "The Mahdi's advent will occur at
such a city or village which will be known as Krimith." Jalaluddin As-Suyuti's Al-Urf
Al-Wardi fie Akhbar Al-Mahdi

25.]  "Then the Duhaima Fitnah (Main Trial: Rebellion of the Khawārij of Iraq) that
will not leave anyone without slapping him a slap (testing his faith); if people say it
is finished, it stays longer (Extension of Duhaima Trial: The Treason of the Minor
Members of the Ahlul Bayt)." Abu Dawud

26.] Salim bin Al-Ja'd said, "The (Imam) Mahdi (Khalifatullah) will be for 21 or 22
years. Then there will be another one (i.e. Al-Qahtāni) after him but less than him.
He will be good (righteous) and remains fourteen (14) years. Then, there will come
another one (i.e. Al-Mansur) after him, but less than him. He will be good
(righteous) and remains (rules for) nine (9) years." Abu Al-Hussain bin Al-Munadi's
Al-Malahim

27.]  Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah, SAAS, said, "The Hour (of
Resurrection) will not come till a man from Qahtān appears, driving the people with
his stick." Bukhari
In the Name of Allah, The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful

4. Chapter I
Harith Ibn Al-Harrath
First Rightly-Guided Quraishi Caliph of Islam of the End Times,
and Mansur, The General of Islam

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The Rise of Harith Ibn Al-Harrath [1]
The First Rightly-Guided Quraishi Caliph of Islam of the End Times [2]
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The First Year of Rule
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The Establishment of Ghootah, City Fort Madina,
Capital City of the Islamic Emirate/Sultanate of Harith
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In the darkness of the sea, the convoy stands to a halt. They await words from the
vanguard team assigned to infiltrate the gate of the City and kill its guards. Nobody
among them will speak. Everybody will be staring from that distance at the bright
glares of the great stretch of city lights before them. Before their eyes is the City of
Az-Zawra,[3] the City of Idols. Everyone will be busy with his own thoughts and
remembrance of Allah. They will not mind the cold soft breezes of the sea that
would touch their faces and would fly their hairs to their eyes. These are the few
moments of peace that they will savor, for deep in their hearts they know that
come morning, when they will have entered the City, there will only be wars to
come to last their lifetimes. They know that they are on the point of no return.
Come tomorrow they will kill to survive and rule with the religion of Islam, or be
martyed in the Cause of Allah. They are the Chosen People of Allah, whom Allah,
SWT, would choose from His creation, who would worship Him as He should be
worshipped. They will fight in the Cause of Allah, only in obedience to His order to
the Ummah of Islam to fight in His Cause. For this obedience, Allah, SWT, will open
to them the doors of victory. To these men, and to Islam, belong the greatest
glories of military conquests in the history of mankind. They are the First Treasure
of Allah, the chosen people of Pitipur Taliqan, [4] from the heartland of Iraq. They
belong to the People of the Cave.[5] They are the Army of the Mahdi, the Army of
the Black Flags of the East (Khurasan).[6] They are the Three Hundred Thirteen
(313)[7] of the Black Flags Army of Imam Al-Mahdi. The leaders of this army
consist of Harith Ibn Al-Harrath, Mansur The General, Shua'ib Ibn Salih At-Tamimi,
and as a General the Leader of the Foreign Legions.  

The vanguards will finally make the call over the radio. The guards of the gate of
Az-Zawra have been stealthily killed and the gate secure for their entry. Harith
gives the order and the convoy begins to move forward. Everyone holds on to
himself. That which is hollow inside the heart is turned solid by the firm
determination to war the disbelievers and firm faith and sufficiency in Allah for
victory. Their hearts are like iron [8] from their faith and years of fighting battles in
the Cause of Allah. Shahadas would be whispered,- "La ilaha illallah, Muhammadur
Rasulullah", and the Takbirs (Allahu Akbar). The coming morning will be the
beginning of Days of Wrath.

The entry to the gates will be fast and silent. Most of the people will be asleep.
Teams will move inland into specific targets and strategic positions will be
occupied. By the time the people of the city learn of the presence of the Army of
the Black Flags inside the city, they will have taken their positions already. The few
gunshots in the beginning will awaken the residents of the city, then the gunshots
turn into fierce firefights that will strike terror into the hearts. By the coming of the
lights of dawn the people will have learned that the Black Flags of Iraq have
entered into the city. They will be seen running in the city streets fleeing from the
invading forces. The name alone of the group of the Black Flags strike fear  into
their hearts, their felt presence now in the midst bring terror to their very souls.
They know them to bring nothing but vicious deaths to their people. The enemy
soldiers will defend the city and will fight back. There will ensue for days battles in
the city. This is the beginning of slaughter that will last for many years. The
invading army will only number 313 but as other Muslims of the Arabian Peninsula
learn of the invasion of Az-Zawra, they take to arms and join the fight
compensating the lack of number of men in the army. The Muslims of Makkah will
also rise up and fight the enemy soldiers whose people will have subjugated them
for over a hundred years, and so will the people of Yaman. The beginning of
conflict will center only in the City of Zawra, but as other Muslim groups succour
and fight, the area of conflict expands, until the authorities of the Ajam of Baytul
Maqdis will lose control of the situation. Their land, air and sea forces are more
than enough to contain the Zawra conflict, but the rising up of the people of
Yaman, Makkah, and of the cities of the Arabian Peninsula will be beyond their
capacity to control. The Ajam leadership in Baytul Maqdis will also be facing
internal problems from their people: they (the people) will demand for the
resignation of their leader and demand for new leadership. Harith's Army of Black
Flags will therefore war for six days and they will conquer Az-Zawra City. After the
conquest, the leader of Baytul Maqdis will recall all of their land, sea and air forces
to withdraw from the Muslim lands reconquered by the Muslims. There will be
many martyred mujahideen in this Six-Days Battle. But the victory will usher in the
rule of the righteous Islamic Emirate/Sultanate of Harith.

After the conquest Mansur The General will proclaim live on television the
independence of the Muslims and of the lands of Arabian peninsula including
cities of Iraq, Zawra, Yaman and Makkah. It will be an Islamic Emirate/Sultanate in
nature, but Caliphate rule in reality. Mansur The General will proclaim Harith Ibn Al-
Harrath to be the Amir/Sultan of the nascent Islamic Emirate. The Muslims will
rejoice for his leadership and new found independence. He will proclaim the new
name of Az-Zawra City to be City Fort Madina,[9] and to the tongues of the tribes
of the Emirate it will be fondly called as Ghootah (Kut).[10] The proclamation will
be an event that will make the Muslims of the world rejoice, and will make the
disbelievers tremble in fear.

Caliph Harith will assign to a man the destruction of all idols and statues found in
Ghootah. These will be destroyed and many will be burnt in public. These will be
seen on television screens and the internet.

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Days of Wrath
============

The Sword of Islam will fall upon the City of Zawra and will slaughter its people.
The Ajam Roman soldiers will withdraw from the city and other places leaving the
people to fight for themselves to survive. The majority of them will flee. Thousands
upon thousands of them will be slaughtered, including the leaders of their
religions. It will be seen on television screens and the internet, the sight of the
merciless killings will be too much for the Romans. There will be an international
Roman outcry against these slaughters yet Allah will cause them to be helpless.
There will be public beheadings, firing squads and hacking people to pieces. The
Army of Harith under the Generalship of Mansur will be called as barbarians,
terrors of mankind. But they will not mind the blame of the blamers. The city
streets will be littered with dead bodies, especially of men. There will be seen
mountains of dead bodies of disbelevers right in the middle of the city, until such
time that people can't tolerate anymore the putrid stench of the dead bodies left to
rot unburied, and they will puke. Caliph Harith will order his men to throw those
bodies outside the city, into the seas. The world have come to know the towers of
heads of Tamerlane and the killings he made, but these will pale in comparison to
the savagery of the Army of Black Flags of General Mansur. The people of the
enemy will say that General Mansur is a Barbarian, a Savage, a Butcher, a Terror, a
Scourge, a Demon set loose by God to punish the Christian nation. This is because
his fire of rage will be inextinguishable, his thirst for Roman blood will be
insatiable, and his thirst for revenge will be unslakable. He will kill in revenge for
the violent death of his beloved wife by the hands of the Ajam Romans. His face
and clothes will continuously be stained red by the warm blood of the people he
slaughters, a man that Allah will let loose in wanton killing of the disbelievers. [11]
His people will follow his course in taking his revenge, and they will also be called
a savage nation. They will render him full obedience and none will dare stop him.
The promise of killing for revenge will make him want to live, and he will live only to
kill. He will free himself from blame. Even some of the Romans will say that he is
blameless for his actions, will even pity him for the man he will have become. His
face alone will strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Islam, but he will be
loved by the believers of his time.

In the meantime, the entry to the City of Az-Zawra will mark the beginning of the
seven months drought. Then Allah will send down plenty of rain.

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The Iraq Embargo
First Economic Embargo on the Nascent Caliphate of Harith
=================================================

An economic embargo will be enforced by the Ajams Romans against Iraq, [12]
including Madina, Damascus and Makkah. The people which they cannot kill by
means of arms, they will strive to kill by hunger. No food from other countries will
enter the territories reconquered by the Muslims. The Ajam Romans will guard the
borders day and night and any ship seen to pass the seas carrying loads of food
(wheat, flour, grains and other kinds of food) the bomber planes will fly and bomb
those ships. People will subsist with fruits, which will be plenty during each of its
seasons. But as to wheat, flour, grains and other processed food there will be none
to use or buy.

During this time, business will die out. Everyone will complain, "I cannot sell, buy or
earn money."[13] The Muslims in the beginning will sell what's left of the goods
they have to sell. Then they will want to buy goods to sell but will not find any to
buy. They will want to buy items for their use in terms of food and things but they
won't find any to buy. In the later part of the first year of rule of Caliph Harith,
among the common people nobody will have any money left with which to buy, and
at the same time nobody will sell anything anymore. Only the rich people will be in
plenty and they will be respected for their wealth.[14]

People officially working under the Caliphate of Caliph Harith in the second year of
his rule will initially complain of very low earnings. In the third year of his rule the
salaries will be more than enough for their needs yet they will still complain. [15]

The First Economic Embargo will last for almost three years. It will hit the
Caliphate hard in the first two years, and will be lifted up in the early months of the
third year of rule of Caliph Harith. Other nations will forcefully come to the
Caliphate to trade with the Muslims. They will trade food and arms to trade for a
commodity that the Caliphate will trade with the nations of the world. In the third
year of rule Allah, SWT, will save the Caliphate from hunger and will open to them
the doors of help and prosperity. It will be their turn to force hunger into the
nations of the disbelievers.

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Patches of Dark Nights: Plague
==========================

During these times of hardships that the Muslims face, a plague will come in the
fourth quarter of the first year to worsen the situation. This tribulation will enter the
house of every Muslim. The winds will carry dusts, black in color. People will see it
carried by the winds like clustered dark clouds, like patches of dark nights. [16] It
will bring fear into the hearts of the people. They will not know from where it will
come from. It will affect the health of the people. Its effect will be that the noses
will bleed, there will be swellings to the body, and there will form pus and eruption
of skins. These swellings and skin eruptions will be markedly seen on the necks of
the victims.[17] People will experience burning pain and fever. Death will be
widespread. Many people will be hit by the plague and many Muslims will be
martyred- men, women and children. Their deaths will be sudden.[18] It will last for
a few months. A man will strive hard to seek a cure for the disease. He will
become the means for the survival of the Muslims of the Caliphate.
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The Second Year of Rule
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Gold Treasures of Iraq
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In the second year of the rule of Caliph Harith, he will assign a man to seek the
treasures hidden in the land of Iraq. This is to find wealth to sustain a Caliphate on
the throes of hunger, plague and war. These treasures will be dug and tons of gold
bars will be unearthed. [19] This wealth will be used by Caliph Harith to buy
weapons, ammunitions and food. The arms dealers of the black market will fly
their planes into the Caliphate territory carrying ammunitions and weapons to sell.
Foods will also be flown in, sneaking past the Ajam radars, and the food shortage
will be slightly alleviated. The war efforts of Mansur The General will be supported
anew by Caliph Harith sending him new armaments and ammunitions. They will
conduct military operations towards the North and will reconquer more territories.
This will force Ajam Romans to fly their planes from far places if only to implement
their economic embargo by guarding the sea borders of Iraq.

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Hijra of the Believers
=================

The second year will mark the beginning of hijra of the believers from other
nations all over the world towards City Fort Madina, Capital City of the Caliphate
from where Caliph Harith will rule. [20] The Caliphate will not have settled yet in
Baytul Maqdis, Ash-Shām. Most of them will be Non-Arabs, Ajam. Many will speak
the Arabic language, [21] but the majority will speak English. Many of them who
will come in the beginning are the singles (unmarried) [22] and after some years
the married ones will come, including their families. They comprise the Muhajirun.
The majority of them will live in Damascus, one of the best cities of the Caliphate
located South of City Fort Madina.[23] The Caliph Harith will assign an able man to
lead them. They will call him "The Leader" and they will be pleased with his
leadership.

Some time also in the rule of Caliph Harith, a man from the Arab lands will come.
He will be among the Muhajirun. He is a learned scholar, a Sheikh, whose words
match his deeds, whose knowledge translates to action. He will become the
Adviser to Caliph Harith. Under his able guidance the system of Islamic rule will
flourish under his advisorship. The Sharee'ah will be implemented throughout the
land through his systemizing the justice system of Islam. While Caliph Harith is the
Amirul Mu'mineen, he is the essence of his rule. He will give good advises to the
Caliph in many matters which he will listen to and implement. He will set up a just
Islamic Caliphate rule for him. It is for this that the Romans will greatly hate him.
He will strive to instill Tawheed upon the people and he will be successful to a
great degree. Only a few section will be left practicing saint worship. There will
also grow a close brotherhood between the Caliph and the Adviser. The Leader of
the Foreign Legion will become his best friend, while The General, Mansur, will be
strangely aloof to him. The Caliphate/Sultanate/Rule of Harith is called in the
ahadith as "Abbasid/Abbas" Caliphate [24] is because of the Adviser's great
influence in the Caliphate's rule, thus named after his kunya, which is Abul Abbas.
His name is 'Adeel and because of his surname, he will be mistaken by the
Romans to be the Mansur of Harith mentioned in the hadith. Allah, SWT, will honor
him with martyrdom. He will be among the greatest of the martyrs in the Cause of
Allah. Allah, SWT, knows best.

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The Third Year of Rule
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Liquid Gold: Oil
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In the darkness of the sea at night, in (the valley) of Barahut somewhere in

between City Fort Madina and Yaman, a great explosion will be heard. It will cause
a low intensity temblor and the Muslims of City Fort Madina, Yaman and Iraq will
wake up in fear, and will see a great towering fire in the darkness. By going as deep
as the center of the earth from the heads of people, the flame becomes a terrible
noise like the lightning between the earth and the sky. That fire will burst up to the
sky which will light up the necks of the camels of Busra (Damascus) [25] It will
burn and kill people with a terrible pain inside and destroy properties nearest it as
it will burn them when the winds will fly the flames to all directions. It's heat at
night is much higher than its daytime temperature.[26] It will be oil, burning on the
outside. The government of Caliph Harith will invest in developing this oil well and
will sell those in the black market in the beginning for a very low price. In the
beginning they will only trade for food, arms and medicine in exchange for oil.
After some time they will trade for money. In the beginning only underground
traders will come to trade for the oil. After some time seeing the big profit these
business traders are making, governments and nations will come into the
Caliphate to trade and will defy the economic embargo of the Ajam. The Ajam
won't be able to stop them from trading with the Caliphate. It will arm the Caliphate
with anti-aircraft weapon systems and modern armaments and it will defeat the
economic embargo of the Ajam against Iraq and the rest. The enemy spy and
bomber planes won't be able to fly over the Muslim territory for fear of the anti-
aircraft missiles the business people of the black market will bring with them and
those of the Caliphate. It will forcefully open trade routes again and the seas will
be opened again for travel. The Muslims will earn ten thousand dinars to be
distributed by the Caliphate to each Muslim citizen, yet people will still be
dissatisfied because of the low price selling of the Caliphate to the buyers. [27]
They will want to raise the price of the oil in the market to earn more money but the
Caliph will not raise the price. The selling of oil at a very cheap price will affect the
economic status of the world. The markets will crash down all over the world as
the oil is cheaper to buy. The Roman Superpower Nations will resent this
happening. Allah, SWT, will make them helpless in spite of all these. After this
economic rise, the Treasury of the Caliphate will be full. Mansur The General will
launch his military operations towards Baytul Maqdis in full force and will be
successful in his sieges. This time his army will consist of mighty men wearing
black turbans, of long hairs and beards, wearing black uniforms, the surnames are
taken from the names of their hometowns and their first names are from a "kunya".
[28] They will war the Ajam towards the North. General Mansur will turn night into
day: he will conduct wars even at night and battles will be fought in a non-stop
military operations. Up North they will reconquer Egypt and then Ash-Sham. There
will be no city that they war except that they defeat it. Hundreds of towns and
cities in the path of their reconquests will be left behind empty of its people fleeing
from the carnage of the Black Flags Army of General Mansur. In Ash-Shām, the
army of Mansur will be on the verge of victory. They will only fight for Ilya (Baytul
Maqdis), the Capital City of the Ajam, and once that is won, the rule of the
Caliphate will be in its home.[29] The Ajam Romans will fight their last line of
defense against the Muslim Army of Black Flags.

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The First Battle of Ash-Shām
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The Ajam Romans from the farthest North of Turkey will come by sea with one
thousand boats.[30] They will fight to reconquer Ash-Shām from the grips of
General Mansur and his Muslim Army. The fighting becomes fierce in the land of
Palestine for four consecutive days and the Romans will be defeated. The Muslims
will follow them and fight them in every mountain or plain until the remaining Ajam
Romans enter Ilya (Baytul Maqdus). The last defense of the Ajam Romans will be
Baytul Maqdis and their defenses are weak. It is only a matter of time before
Mansur and his army launch their final attacks and win Baytul Maqdis. General
Mansur will have made preparations for his final assault deploying army to
strategic positions. But before he could give the order to attack, a new enemy of
the Muslims attacks by surprise from the rear: the Turks invade the Caliphate,
devastating Azerbaijan. The Red Death [31] that will hit the Muslims will have
arrived.
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The Invasion of the Turks [32]
First Invasion, World War III
=========================

(Above picture taken from the book "End of the World")

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Turks Invade Azerbaijan [33]
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The Turks invade. Their fighter planes and bomber planes will devastate
Azerbaijan. Then their army lands and takes control of the land. The invasion will
be fast the Ajam Romans and the Muslims will be taken by surprise.

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Turks Invade Armenia [34]
======================

From the farthest South of the Caliphate the land invasion of the Turks will enter
from Armenia, a Muslim nation. They will start their ground invasion from that
sovereign Muslim territory. They will defeat the Muslims of Armenia and devastate
it.

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Turks Invade Iraq [35]
==================

From Armenia the Turks will move to Asbahan then to Iraq and attack it. The
people of Iraq, of the Black Flags, will fight them. They will defend Iraq, but the
Capital City of Kufa will fall to the hands of the Turks. They will kill all the Muslim
men they will capture. The majority of the people of Iraq will flee to the North,
towards Ash-Shām (Greater Syria).

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Turks Invade Damascus
====================

From Iraq, the invasion will move to Damascus. Damascus is also Basra, a low-
lying land, beside a river called Dajla, over which there is a bridge. It's people will be
numerous and it will be one of the cities of the Muhajirun. The Turks, the
descendants of Banu Qantura, whose faces are broad and have small eyes, will
land in the bank of the River Dajla. The inhabitants of this place will be split into
three groups. One of them will follow cattle and live in the desert but they will
perish. Another group will seek security arrangements for themselves but they will
be killed. The third group will put their children behind their backs and fight the
invaders and they will be the martyrs.[36]

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Turks Invade Egypt
================

After a firm groundhold of Azerbaijan, the fighter planes and bomber planes of the
Turks will attack Egypt. This is The Arrow of the Turks that will hit Egypt.[37] This
is the fire that will come from Azerbaijan and nothing will be able to stand in its
way.[38] They will devastate Egypt with their bombs and it will be followed
immediately by a ground invasion. They will conquer Egypt and they will make it
their Capital City. The Central Command of their government rule and military
command will come from Egypt. After conquest they reinforce their defenses and
establish their rule. [39] The invading forces will consist of Khazars, Turks, people
of Kirman and people of Khooz. The major air power of the invasion will belong to
the Khazars and the Turks. The Turks will consist the majority of the army while
the people of Kirman and Khooz will be the vanguards.

The situation will be that from the North, Baytul Maqdis is under the control of the
Ajam Romans. South of Baytul Maqdis which is Ash-Shām (Greater Syria) is
controlled by the Muslims. South of Ash-Shām is Egypt and it is controlled by the
Turks. South of Egypt is Arabian Peninsula which is Makkah and Madina ruled by
the Muslims, and South of Madina is Damascus/Yaman and Iraq, ruled  by the
Turks. The Turks therefore cut through the two thirds territory of the Caliphate,
creating a barrier of defense between Madina and Ash-Sham. The entry of the
Turks from the  South to Armenia to Iraq to Damascus also pose a danger to the
Capital City, City Fort Madina.

At the onset of the invasion of the Turks in Azerbaijan, Mansur the General will
leave Ash-Shām and go to Madina. He will leave the leadership of the Ash-Shām
forces to a man from the descendants of Harun.[40] At the invasion of the Turks,
the Romans of Europe and America will proceed to the defense of Constantinople/
Baytul Maqdis. The danger posed by the invasion of the Turks will compel them to
protect the Ajam Romans north of Ash-Shām (Greater Syria). There they will ask
the Muslims for a peace treaty. The Caliph Harith, after consultation with the Shura
Council, will agree for the truce. They will give to the descendant of Harun the right
to sign for the truce near Baytul Maqdis. It will be a treaty of peace to last for ten
years [41] and stipulated therein that there will be no war to be made between the
camps of the Muslims and the Ajam and the Romans for that period of time. The
Romans will specifically ask in this treaty the destruction of Egypt [42] occupied by
the Turks, through a combined attack of forces. They will also ask for the
destruction of Kufa City[43] which will have fallen to the control of the Turks. Then
they will ask for a joint land invasion of Kirman.[44] Whatever spoils of war the
Romans and the Muslims get will be divided into half. [45] These five stipulations
will be the core of the treaty. These will be approved by the Caliph Harith. The
heartland of the Turks will only be attacked by the Romans themselves while the
Muslims will attack the Southern part of the lands of the Turks.

In order to protect the interest of the Romans in Baytul Maqdis/ Constantinople of

defending the land and Christian religion of the Ajam Romans, the Romans will be
forced to make treaty with the Muslims as there is no other group they can ask for
arms support except the Muslims. The Muslims on the other hand, will have a
difficult time in defending the Caliphate without the help of the Romans, as the
Turk nation is a superpower nation whose military prowess is to be reckoned with.
The treaty of peace and united force will therefore be in the best interest of the
Romans and the Muslims.

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Liberation of Egypt by the United Muslim-Roman Forces
==============================================

The Central Military Command of all the Turks will be in Egypt. To its North is
Baytul Maqdis- Capital City of the Ajam Romans, and Ash-Shām where the veteran
fighters of the Caliphate are stationed. To its South is Fort Madina, Capital City of
the Caliphate, and Makkah. East of Egypt is open sea, to its West the path of their
entry when they invaded. Egypt therefore is surrounded by enemies from both
sides, with no support army to reinforce them nearby. The Turks will rely on three
suppositions for its establishing Central Command in Egypt: 1.) The people of
Egypt are the most supportive to the Cause of the Turks. 2.) It is located in the
center of the Caliphate from where they can launch attacks on both sides, and 3.)
They will think it's impossible for the Muslims and the Ajam and Romans to unite
to create a solid front to fight them. They will be mistaken in their third supposition
and will terribly pay the price. For the Muslims and the Romans will unite to war
them despite their being at war with each other.