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However, the request from you is to absolve yourselves of your fear and terror because of our arrival to you with the troops. To Sheikh Waqayila Ahmad, O miserable one, seek good from the miserable with your strength. As for us, We do not covet you. Then he asked them to leave him inside the town after Friday, and he explained that to them by the abundance He saw it and informed the Amir of its condition, inside and out, the scarcity of its water sources, the fewness of its palm trees, Its cultivation, and its wealth, because he hears about it and is pleased with the order of the mothers of the estates. And seeing is not like hearing. So he answered him with kindness and sufficiency. "Enter, O mother, look at the entrance, and look, and pray." Friday, and some of his companions entered with him, and he ordered the rest to stay outside. And they agreed. And when He refused to enter, they sat down, and the people of the town began to complain to him. The people of the town betrayed them With their Sheikh and his oppression of them and his seizure of their wealth. He was arrested and imprisoned, and he began to pursue The merchants of the land, plundering their wealth and imprisoning them, even imprisoning the Christians, who paid him whatever they owed him. Until he took it. And he went to extremes in plundering their wealth, to the point that the Haws, even if it was a weight of, for example, a measure of cheese, Which is a young girl, he would take her, and if there was gold or silver in it, he would take it. And he gathered what he could from the companions, and in it were the captives, the exiles, his wives, his children, His brothers, and all who followed him to the presence of Muhammad Pasha. And what he gathered was a great amount. Muhammad Pasha struck a coin, the weight of each dirham was one dirham, and he made the exchange rate four qirsh. This coin was considered small in the city of Al-Sir until Khalil struck a coin, and it was not considered small in any other city. He made it from the country. And if the opinion was that it was a waste and a decrease in value, it would be nothing else. And if he wanted to write, he would not entrust it to a scribe, but would manage the treasury himself. And he was called Al-Bahloul. And among his great oppressions was that if someone sold a share in real estate, even an indivisible part, The seller and the buyer would break the entire property. Even if only one part was sold, the owner of the broken part would take the entire broken part from the seller and what was sold. And what was sold was a virgin or a widow, and he would show them taking the broken part. This pursuit, Nothing like it has been heard of in any religion. With such a thing, the broken part, and three from the slaves, would increase until the price of a slave reached ten thousand and more. And he placed on any slave, male or female, a scale of one hundred and a price, And this was called a sale, even if it was less than that. Then he sold it to him, and he was not satisfied with it, and he did not remain in the treasury because of that until the price of a slave reached twenty-four slaves, After the sale was five hundred dirhams. And he was tyrannical over the subjects, knowing only his own kind. Then he increased the kharaj significantly beyond the old law, and he appointed the 'awwad over them. When their complaints to him became numerous, blame fell upon him. So the 'awwad demanded that you bear that.

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