Heraclius begins to promote a kind of monophsitism and evicts the proto-Karaites from Edessa but grants them weapons and an imperial stele to conquer the desert interpreted by the proto-Karaites as [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-arabah Arabah]. They appeal to Mahmud ibn Ishmael of the [[Quraysh]] for help to raise an army of [[Hagarim]] in Tachkastan using changing Heraclius's words towards their own idea that whatever his origin, Jesus had one Human will(Monothelitism). Heraclius likely was unconscious of the difference and happy that he had more allies attacking the Sassanians for him.