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O People of Medina, surely your governor wrote to me and mentioned your cheating, your
disobedience, your evil viewpoints, and your turning away from pledging allegiance to the
Commander of the faithful. The Commander of the faithful has sworn by Allah that if you do not
refrain from (disobedience), he will turn your security into fear, prevent you from the sea and the
land, send to you thick‐hearted and far‐wombed men (who will attack you) in the middle of your
houses, do what they are ordered. Greetings!
Some enthusiastic and free people opposed him, saying: "You are a liar, son of the one who was
flogged twice!" Then they threw stones at him from all directions. He escaped in fear to his
fortified, wide house. He closed it and sought protection in it. Ayyub b. Salam al‐Makhzumi, a
follower of the authority, came in to him and provoked him to punish the revolutionaries severely,
saying: "May Allah set right the Emir, the rabble have done that; therefore cut off their hands and
flog them on the backs!" Some Hashimites advised him not to pay attention to the statement of
this slave who turned away from his country and his countrymen. They advised him to send for
the notables and the nobility and to recite to them al‐Mansur's letter to see their viewpoints
concerning it. He responded to that and sent for them. He recited to them al‐Mansur's letter. Hafs
b. 'Amr b. 'Abd Allah b. 'Awf al‐Zuhri and Abu 'Ubayda b. 'Abd al‐Rahman al‐Azhar said to him: "By
Allah, you are a liar! You did not command us and we did not disobey you! You did not summon
us, and we did not oppose you!"
Then they turned to the messenger and representative of al‐Mansur and asked him:
‐Will you inform the Commander of the faithful of us?
‐I have come for nothing except for that!
‐Say to him: "As for your statement that you will turn the security of Medina and of its inhabitants
into fear, it is that Allah, the Great and Almighty, has promised us other than that. Allah, the Great
and Almighty, has said: And that He will most certainly, after their fear, give them security in
exchange; they shall serve Me, not associating aught with me. So we will serve Him and associate
aught with Him."[1] Al‐Mansur treated the people of Medina with severity and alienation. He did
not respect their being neighbors to Allah's Apostle, may Allah bless him and his family, nor did he
pay attention to their forefathers who established this religion and consolidated its foundations.
2. His Making little of the Kaaba
Al‐Mansur disbelieved in Islam and turned away from all its principles and objectives. He tried to
move the Kaaba from its place to Dar al‐Salam. Meanwhile he built a huge building in his capital
Baghdad and called it al‐Qubba al‐Khaddra' (the Green Dome) as a sign of making little of the Holy
Kaaba.[2] Through this he showed his disbelieve (in Islam) and his apostasy from the religion.
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