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common ground of action for the different communities of unbelief and apostasy.
Nevertheless, we can also say that their ideological alliance against Islam is a fragile alliance
and limited by a ceiling of material interests that each faction among them possesses.
Therefore, we should formulate our military and political plans after properly understanding
and appraising the ceiling of interest which limits the action of each one of our enemies and
work to widen the gap of the interests between hostile factions. Therefore, the map of
interests must be clear in the minds of our leaders of action. It is a map that is just as
important as military maps.
We can say that bargaining is a characteristic of the politics of the enemy because the
substitute for successful bargains between them—even if they achieve some partial gains—is
continuous war which might crush all of (their) interests. Therefore, they call politics "the
art of the possible". As for their persistence in continuing war, that is only when they think
that their opponent is weak and it is possible to crush his will. When there is violent
resistance which leads to invasions that cost a great deal and are of little use, the factions of
the coalition began to withdraw one after another, preferring (their own) security or delaying
the conflict until more suitable circumstances.
The nature of the enemies' bargain does not have the quality of permanence because it is
merely a reflection of the scales of power at a particular moment and those scales are always
subject to change.
Consequently, there is a breach of political treaties—or systematic
bargains—which are naturally unmoral.