Al-Hajj Araouqali to Al-Karada'iya to awaken the dormant sedition, and you attacked our Arabs with weapons and war equipment to fight us, and you profited from entering Atab and fighting us as much as you could. You did not stop at this limit of transgression and violation of the covenant, until you sent your army and men against us and today you fired your rifles at us. O Lord, that you would remove us from the circle of the distant and the morning and the noon. The Commander of the Faithful and the allied states are inclined to tension and rushing to reform the great house of war. We have been overcome, our enemy, and humiliated, and followed. We thought that our silence about your killing was a form of cowardice or something of cowardice. Far be it from us! If the Caliph's order came to you to fight us, then it is from the rightness to use deception and cunning against us and to mislead us. Declare war openly and call for jihad publicly, and you will see from us, God willing, lions who do not shy away from fighting and do not count the cost of calamity. Their patience has run out. This is my letter, arriving at night, by the hand of Mahmoud Bey, the most skilled of the artillerymen. Peace be upon you, and the mercy of God and His blessings. When Hafiz Pasha learned what was in the prisoner Ibrahim's reply, he wrote to him saying: "I found your letter adorned with eloquent phrases and signs of submission to your Sultan, the Caliph, the Messenger of the Lord of the Worlds, and God's vast shadow on His earth. Therefore, for every word, we must raise our hands in supplication and entreaty to the Almighty and Exalted Lord to make the branch of this sacred tree flourish and bloom forever and for years. Furthermore, may God guide you, you know that obedience to the Commander of the Faithful is obligatory and imposed on whoever believes in God and His Messenger. Today, do you obey this obedience or is it merely verbal, devoid of action? Otherwise, it is a mere appearance and relationship. How could you have surrendered yourself to obedience and made a vow to draw closer to me through your good morals? You have made our sedition Muhammad mad with you in a way that is not to be envied. How could you have ordered your soldiers to attack our war patrols and engage them in combat? All these matters have made us doubt your sincerity and led us to skirmish with you. If you reconsider and regret what you have done, you will have security from the Commander of the Faithful. Peace be upon you, and the mercy of God and His blessings." Hafiz Pasha's letter had not yet reached the prisoner Ibrahim when his father also received news of the completion of the war fleet and the Sultan's presence with his forces, cavalry, servants, and formidable army, which consisted of several large ships and great vessels, and the war was inevitable and there was no escape. Prince Ibrahim sent this news to his father and requested reinforcements and hastened his relief. His father wrote to him on the twenty-fifth of Rabi' al-Awwal of the year, that is, the year one thousand two hundred and ninety-eight, saying: "Your letter has reached me, and I have certain knowledge of the cowardice that has befallen your army, and what is observed daily of the Ottoman army's tampering with the country, and the Pasha's efforts for the sake of the wicked foreigners, and their plundering of cities and villages to destroy crops and offspring. This destruction has gone on for too long. We have taken the advice of the mediating states, hoping that..."