_ 535 _ But rather to fear them and not allow them to take provisions from their lands or help them to their own cost, and to give other reasons calculated to cause him to hate the Turks and seek friendship with us. However, he strongly recommended him to use care and caution with these expedients, according to what he learned from the turn of events, and the benefit or harm that could result from each one of them. He gave instructions that even if there were some suggestions from India that, with all its resources, he should go and drive out the Turks from Basra and destroy it (something which he also should have seen in some of those instructions that he had given orders to show him). he should not do so, because his job was to govern India, and at no time or on any occasion that might arise would it ever be his duty to travel so far from its borders.
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