The Ikhwan were becoming increasingly disenchanted with the role into which Ibn Saud and circumstance had maneuvered them. The great purge they had looked for on the conquest of the Hijaz had failed to materialize. Instead, their King, Ibn Saud, was devoting his energies to welding the disparate factions and interest groups in his new Kingdom into a single political entity, a process which inevitably involved some degree of flexibility, even compromise.
'Compromise' was not a word in the Ikhwan vocabulary. Faisal Ad-Dawish saw no reason to tolerate the establishment of a police post in the previously open desert domain of the nomadic tribes, especially since its primary purpose seemed to be to put an end to his raids. Supported by two other Ikhwan leaders, Dhidan bin Hithlain and Sultan bin Bijad bin Humaid, Faisal Ad-Dawish expressed his profound dissatisfaction with the laxity which still typified life in the Hijaz and the restraints which were being imposed on the Ikhwan's freedom of action. To him and his brothers, all this seemed to be a willful deviation from the true path, and the three Ikhwan leaders called for a Jihad (Holy War) to set matters right.