[3] Whit Mason attributes the Safi uprising to "extremely brutal taxation, oppression and poverty".
[1] Religious scholars among the Safi ruled that anyone who rebelled against their king and died should be excluded from being counted as martyrs.
David B. Edwards, a veteran scholar of Afghan history, gives the following quote from Amanul Mulk (whom Edwards interviewed personally) in Caravan of Martyrs (2017), which appears to confirm that Salemai was king and not prime minister:[2] We called Amanat Lewana ["mad," parroting the popular epithet for the unpopular Daud Khan].
The elders told us to accept these orders.By the end of October 1945, most of the Safis, except for a few die-hards had come to terms with the Afghan government.
[4] On 23 November 1946, Mohammed Daoud Khan gave the remaining Safi peace terms, which included the return of rifles and small arms ammunition captured from government troops, the surrender of Shahswar, Said Muhd, Salim Khan and Allah Khan, the sale of grain to the government at reasonable rates, and the despatch of Safi youths to Kabul for education.