"ملف رقم: E.7. قطر والاتفاقية الأنجلو تركية لعام ١٩١٣' [و‎‎١‎٢‎٨] (٤٦٠/٢٧٢)

Translation of an araMc letter dated Shaban 1333
July 1915
from Sayed Shakir Effendi,Officer Commanding the Turllsh
crarriBon at ^atr to Yusuf bin Abdur Rahman Fakhru, Bahrain.
Then brother, while we were aaiting for the kind-
ne88,for which we were anxious,your honoured letter arrived
at an auspioioue moment,and we understood fully what you
have said therein,and thanked God for your safety.
Secondly, oh friend,it is now eleven months that we
are confined in this place and as long as we had stores we d
did not retire any thing; but now our stores are fi^nished
and for this want we thought that you would show some zeal
and love of help;and we appealed to you,and selected you
out of all other friends as we knew you/ would not disappoitit
our hopes,and therefore chose you for this burden. To-day we
have become quite hopeless. Almighty God is very powerful
and very great a3il all power lies in Him. And henceforward
you must realise that we will be in most difficult circums
tances and this,no doubt,is due to the alertness of the
raoslems.
Before receiving your letter,we referred to the Shaikh
of this place and after very great trouble,he gave us three
rafas wheat which would suffice for ten days bread ofaly.
After receipt of your letter we sent it to him and spoke toft,
him about that,and no benefit was obtained au alland
i
now we must despair of all people. This of course is -b
our evil fortune. In short, brother,now nothing remainJ f or
us except God^ mefcy,under which we have taken refugeo
God is the best Agent, and God is the Agent for all that we
say, and if we knew that inj^ our place there was a friend,
we would not have referred to you,about that; but ovrlng to
severe hardships we referred to you. Also you have mentioned
that we would be given what we wanted and for this rearon we
asked you what we re (jiired, and if the amount asked for cannot
b9 obtained,we will thank you for any amount possible and if