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And a quarter of the scholars attended to the king and teaching in the educational session, with servants of his masters, with his companions, with the cloaks of the sultans, and their leaders. Then the wing of the subjects and his direct supervision of good deeds and positions from his affairs. Then he would allow a corner for those who were attentive to the noble intentions for remembrance or recitation, then his study and narration, and his teachers and narrators, and their authorizations. Then his treatises, then the hearing of the scholars. Every year, it concluded with a session of his council with the important figures and the return of the scholars. His upbringing was in the house, in his presence, the knowledge was sought from him, and he explained the chapters, and the eye was explained. With the book of sale, its problems, its errors, and its solutions. It would be every year on the night of the seventeenth, with what he had acquired from the scholars and the correction of the texts. And he would read his own copy or his completion of the remembrance. Then he would narrate the narration. If he was strong, he would say two words, "Beloved on the tongue, the scales are balanced. Two words of God, the Most Merciful. Glory be to God." He found, "God hears those who praise Him." The group engaged in prayer, destiny, and glorification. He did not leave any of the group except for what was in their hearts. Then he would gather the second group in that council at night, seeking the narration between them. Then the visitation, and his recitation between the verses and the verses from Surat Al-Baqarah, upon which the love is based. And let every man's situation be such that he returns to the wellspring. Then the reading would begin, and he would place his hand on it. Parts of his recitation every year were customs and practices. He read Sahih al-Bukhari, from his books of Tafsir, Hadith, Musnad, and the vow of chastity. The presence of the scholar, at the time of heedlessness, and the research, and the remembrance, and the fasting. And he distributed to the sons of the week, how much he would read from it every night. Then he would read the lessons.