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And Ali, The most noble of mankind. We are proud of his Sultanate, God honored him from the front. Every tongue praises him, In what example is there for him? We saw the kings of this era, Their past, future, and present state. His benevolence is always upon us, When his family wept and said: "If only our servants feared God, There would be no rest or sleep." Distant lands have separated us from our loved ones. "By God, do not speak too much," O my critic, in weeping and from me. And on the twentieth of Rabi' al-Thani, the great earthquake occurred in Al-Jazair. We seek refuge in God from the sinking and the evil end. Then the Amir al-Mu'minin considered, He said: "I have been informed of the people of God, their station, their movement to subdue the land of Qatr." The details that the author elaborated on in the "Shat al-Maghrib" and the "Ahram Nar al-Fitna" that he carried. This earthquake occurred on a Sunday journey, seeking him. "Barshak, how much did this Al-Jazair estimate in that?" The date, and it coincided with the occurrence of this earthquake, and he witnessed what happened. And it was shaken on the night of Saturday the tenth of Rabi' al-Thani, or the eleventh, Due to the difference of people, I increased it in the month. After the Maghrib prayer, in the year six hundred and seventy-seven, and from it fell all its abundant structures, its eastern and western parts. The peaks of the mountains of Debro, in their lands, were shattered. Mount Hassan was its exit towards its Qibla, On the pass of Tinzi, then on Qart, then it entered the pass of Tinzi.

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