Our affair is eastern, not western, and forward, not backward. It rises like the rising of the sun and extends across the horizons like the extension of the river, reaching where the swift and the slow can reach. We killed the Sahihiyyah, the Dalafiyyah, the Dhakwaniyyah, and the Rashadiyyah. We are also the people of the Nadi during the days of Nasr bin Sayyar, Ibn Juday' al-Kirmani, and Shaban bin Salama al-Faraji. We are the people of Nabata bin Hanzalah, Umar bin Sabarah, and Ibn Hubayrah. When this matter came, its history, its beginning, and its end, and who fought Marwan? We are a people with bodies and forms, hair and heads, large shoulders, broad foreheads, and long arms. We are the sons of masculinity and the descendants of husbands. We are the most fierce and the most resolute, the most severe in our days and our vengeance, the strongest in our bonds, and the greatest in our bodies. Our bodies are more suited for weapons, and our swiftness is more filling to the eyes. We have more resources, more numbers, and more preparations. If Gog and Magog were more numerous beyond the river than us, we would have flown over them in numbers. As for strength and the firmness of our grip, no one among the Ad, Thamud, the Alaqah, and the Canaanites has bodies and grips like ours. If the horses of the earth and the riders of all regions were gathered in one arena, we would be more numerous in sight and higher in chests. And when you see our processions, our riders, and our banners, which no one else can carry, you will know that we have not lagged behind except to overturn states, obey the rebels, and support the Sultan. If the people of steadfastness and the men of the Rabi' were present.