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"O my beloved, may God bless him and his family, and his household, and the pure of his lineage. I have forbidden this in the Book of God and the Sunnah of the Messenger of God, peace be upon him. How can you harm me, my companions, and deny what God Almighty has allotted to you, and claim what is not yours? You have no right, nor a share in the wealth of the White [people], ever, because it is what God has bestowed upon us as spoils of war, as it was opened without fighting. All of it is for the treasury alone. What we have given you from it was only out of generosity and kindness. As for the spoils, you have no right in them except in cases of inability and extreme need, as we have mentioned. And after that, the purity of intentions, and the denial of denial, and the untying of the knots of hidden disbelief and persistence, and with it the stripping away for the sake of establishing religion wherever it may be, and with it contentment with God Almighty's division in little and much, without coveting or desiring what God has divided for you. As God Almighty said, "We have divided among them their livelihood in this world." It is an eternal division. In the Holy Hadith, it is said: "My beloved, the worldly life..." The verse states that you are supporting me with the Mahdiya, and you claim that you believe in my servitude, and you know the events that occurred during the time of the Messenger of God, peace be upon him. You know that at Hunayn, he took much wealth from the spoils of Hunayn, and he gave it to the mu'allafah qulubuhum (those whose hearts are to be reconciled), from the people of Mecca. It is not hidden from you that he gave his wet nurse, Halimah, much wealth, even though the mujahideen and others were poor and weak. And the Messenger of God, peace be upon him, had much wealth. And all of that was in the presence of the mujahideen. And that was because the Messenger of God, peace be upon him, and his opinion of the condition of the companions, from hunger and nakedness, and the hunger that befell them in this time. So he saw the wealth of Quraysh and the wealth of the Banu..."

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