Conflict in Hijaz during 1924

Ibn Saud decided to invade the Hejaz immediately.

In August 1924,

the Ikhwan army launched a surprise attack toward the lands

of the Hejaz.

Ikhwan battalions carried out intensive raids in

Sharifian areas, with their advance units in eastern Jordan,

where they headed to the village of Umm al-Amad and killed its residents.

The major attack was on Taif, the Hejaz’s summer capital,

specifically on the third of September

1924, when the Ikhwan army moved

toward Taif under the leadership of the fanatic Sultan bin

Bjad.

Taif was unable to hold out at all, and hundreds of people

were killed.

British newspapers even reported the throats of

children and women being slit, and that dozens had sought refuge in the Ibn

Abbas Mosque, but they were all killed inside the mosque.

The entire city was also looted.

Was the attack

an attack by Abdulaziz’s army or by the army of the Ikhwan of Those Who Obey God, meaning

those who obey God, which refers to Abdulaziz himself?

The attack was based on two main pillars.

First, this attack was cloaked in the mantle of religion,

That is, these people were polytheists, and they prevented the people of Najd from performing the Hajj.

And that they, and that they. The second point was through the force of

iron and fire, and through brutal violence and horrific killings among the people of the Hejaz.

And wholesale slaughter among the people of the Hejaz, in the horrific Taif massacre, in which

it was said that several thousand were killed, and they did there as was explicitly mentioned

by Ahmad Abdel Ghafoor Attar, author of the book Falcon of the Peninsula, who was

the historian who spoke of Abdulaziz in a praising tone, speaking of Abdulaziz

in a tone of commendation, reverence, and sanctification for Abdulaziz.

He described the details of the Taif massacre in an unimaginable way,

and described what the Ikhwan did, these savage Bedouins.

Of course, Abdulaziz remained with them in the name of religion.

The events in Taif caused great panic in Mecca,

so people fled en masse toward Jeddah, fearing

the Wahhabi army that was sweeping through everything. But

Sharif Hussein remained in Mecca with a few of his men,

then he wired the Hashemite agent in Cairo, saying:

We have been defeated, Abdul Malik.

Our army has retreated.

But I will personally assume

responsibility for defending Mecca.

I place the responsibility before the

Islamic world.