Islamic State
Wilayat al-Raqqa
Oil and Gas Commission

No. [redacted]
Date: [redacted] Jumada al-Awla 1438 AH corresponding to [redacted] March 2017 CE

To be referred to the one who made the request

In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

To the brothers in the wali’s office…may God protect and guard you

As-salam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu. As for what follows:

In response to your letter regarding the grievance of the employee [redacted]

We inform you that he had an allegiance to the Islamic State and in accordance with the circular previously issued, no brother who previously had an allegiance can be employed.

May God reward you best.

Stamp and Signature

Islamic State
Oil and Gas Commission
Amir of the Centre

Abu [redacted] al-Jazrawi

cc.

1. Wali’s office
2. Archive

NB: Some clarification is needed here. The Islamic State distinguished between formal members of the organisation (i.e. those who ‘gave allegiance’/mubaya’un and had registered ID numbers) and those who were not formal members but were given jobs by the group as ’employees’ (muwazzafun) and received salaries/payments but did not give allegiance. What this letter therefore means is that if someone joined the Islamic State as a formal member and then ‘left’ for some reason, then that would mean that this person could not subsequently become an ’employee’ for the group. By ‘leaving’ the organisation, I mean here either the one who seems to resign (though so far this only seems to apply to local Iraqis/Syrians, and the mechanisms are not yet precisely understood) or the one who is formally expelled (a phenomenon well attested and discussed in other documents).