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far better than these people, tried his
best to bring home to them the real situation.
He told them plainly that he was not against
the ex-King, for whom he had every sympa-
thy; but that he himself had neither the right
nor the power to force the people to accept
him as their king. He refused to proceed
to Kandahar where the ex-King was making
preparations for an attack on Kabul, telling
them plainly that he would not be able
to do anything there. We have already
observed (Chapter VI) how Ali Ahmad Jan,
اندرز who led away by the exhortations of these
men went to Kandahar, was unable to do
anything useful and had ultimately to pay
with his life.
Marshal Nadir Khan was too wise to
be led astray by these people, who had
absolutely no knowledge of the Afghan
mentality and who in their religious fervour
wanted that the affairs of a foreign country
should follow the trend of their desires.
بیهوده Their abortive efforts relative to the Turkish
question and the Caliphate problem had
shown at once their earnestness and their
sympathy for their brethren-in-faith, and
their ignorance of practical politics.
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