H o l a k uʼ s R e t u r n 36 Al Duwaidar receives the message. Al Mustasim: Come on, read it over, Duwaidar! Duwaidar starts reading the message. Al Duwaidar: From Holaku to Al Mustasim! We have sent you our delegates at a time when we set to conquer the Malahda forts. We asked you to provide us with soldiers. Although you had displayed loyalty, you didn’t send the soldiers to support us. The real indication of loyalty and support is to carry out our orders and send us your army to back us against those tyrants, but you did not send the army offering hollow and false pretexts. Nevertheless, if you carry out orders, everything will be completely forgotten. You have to demolish the forts, fill up with earth all the trenches around Baghdad, pass the country administration to your son and present yourself against us. Failing to do that and unwilling to come, you better send your minister and the army commander to inform you with no more and no less of our final message. Al Mustasim: in a state of anger, I am the Abbasid Caliph! Do I have to take orders
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