'File 14/115 VII Annex (B 9) Abu Musa oxide: collected background material on the case' [‎34v] (79/1904)

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A nnex 34.
Note hy Man Bahadur Abdul Latif on the
letter to Hasan Samiyeh
{Dated 8th Zilhejjeh 1324 =2
I beg to refer to the sentence in my letter, dated 8th Zijhejieh lo24 (-'' ,ra
January 1907) which runs as follows: I
and about the meaning of which there have been arguments.
I beg to say that my meaning, when 1 wrote the sentence, was
(The annulment of this agreement is better than the acceptance mx ihis
agreement.)
It is not hidden from your Honour that I received my education in the Gulf,
and that I am not an expert in the niceties of grammar and the shades of meaning
various measures of words. When I write, I write according to the usages and
understanding of the community in which I live.
As regards the use of the measure . as synonymous with
the use is quite an ordinary one in these parts^ and 1 can mention
many other instances of the same such as
(Reposing) (Continuance) (Being ruined) (Advancing) (Remaining,)
There is no idea of a " desire to " here.
Again you will note that in the letter from my son Isa, dated 7th Moharram
1325 (loth February 1907) to Shaikh Sagar occurs the sentence:
" Va atlub min jenabekum almosaadeh fi naqz va istebtal-i-hazehel varaqah "
l and I beg your Honour for assistance in the breaking up and annulling of this
document).
This shows that the words and were used synonymously.
Furthermore, when writing to me on the 23rd Moharram with reference to my
letter to him (dated 8th Zilhejjeh 1324) enjoining on him the
Hasan used the same form of words as I had, thus:
" You particularly wrote about the deed of contract which I executed with
Wonckhaus the German for the sale of oxide from Abu Musa Island.
I understood what you said, namely, that your son Esa was not
agreeable to the execution of a document of this purport-for the reason
that I had not consulted you, and that it was necessary that the
partners should not enter (into transaction) without the knowledge
of the other partners; that this humble one had entered into this trans
action without consultation and that Isa feared that complications
would result owing to the admittance of foreigners (into the concern)
and the
♦ {Note) Curiously enough in this passage Hasan Samaiyeh makes " muqawilch " musculine
at the beginning of the sentence and feminine at the end