ABSTRACT
“Remember that Paradise is found under the shadow of swords. These wretches are come to fight for an impious cause. We have called them into the right way, and to reward us they threaten us with arms. Meet this attack with courage and be certain of victory, for the Prophet has said, ‘Even if a mountain is guilty against another mountain, it is swallowed up in the earth.’”—The speech of Othman, the Fulani conqueror of Hausa, to his soldiers on the outbreak of war.
