Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 4.16.12

4.16.12

Whenever men become so corrupt and wicked, as to relinquish the path of equity and to abandon themselves to all kinds of excesses, then it happens, in all countries and in all religions, that Providence never fails to suscite such a murderer as me, whose only office is to chastise a race become totally criminal. But when the measure of punishment has been filled, then the butcher's office ceases, and his mission is over, and then, that some Providence never fails to suscite such a mighty man as you, whose mission is to lay hold of the barbarian, and to consign him to condign punishment." "Why should this oppressor's haughtiness and violence last so long? Is it because God Almighty's scourge strikes without a sound?"