**The End of the War - And the Journey of the Delegation** **The End of the War** The First World War ended in the winter of 1919 with the victory of the Allies and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. That empire carried within its structure all the factors of disintegration and annihilation, even before it suffered defeat in the war. It had lived for a long time on a great contradiction, a contradiction between the appearance of rule and its reality. The one who sat on the throne of the Caliphate was the official head of the Islamic state, but in the application of Sharia laws and in his general conduct, he possessed none of the qualities of the Caliphate as Muslims knew it in the glorious eras of Islam.

When Turkey entered the war for purely worldly political reasons, many Muslim men of opinion believed that the ongoing war was not a religious war. They defined their position accordingly, based on their interests and the political interests of their countries.

Following the war, the Egyptian national movement emerged in Egypt, led by Saad Zaghloul Pasha. The war aimed at independence from Turkey and liberation from British colonialism. In Sudan, however, there was no political public opinion at that time. I, of course, believed that there had been one religious and national war in recent centuries, the war waged successfully by the Imam Al-Mahdi, who laid the foundations of the Islamic government in Sudan according to the Book of God and the Sunnah of His Prophet. Based on this opinion, I defined my position on the Turks' call for a holy war. No one should expect me to sympathize with the Turkish Sultan. The history of the Turks since they knew the way to Sudan is stained with the blood of my people and my Ansar, in addition to their terrible cruelty and savagery. Furthermore, as a "patriot," I would not sympathize with a cause from which my country would gain no political advantage.

For these two reasons, I believed that despite the British being colonizers and despite their invasion of our country as the Turks had done before, we had no choice but to submit to the reality of the situation. Moreover, the British adhered to justice as long as its results did not apparently conflict with their interests.

I knew that the persecution I faced from them stemmed from deep-seated fears. The British believed that I was seeking to carry out a retaliatory revolution, and perhaps my enemies, foremost among them Sultan Pasha, whose soul overflowed with evil, accused me of this.