The Coptic under the rule of Sa'id Pasha, the Russians, if not, the Egyptian rule would be on the verge of a precipice, surrounded by dangers from all sides. It was said that when Sa'id Pasha left, Kirillos and sent to the province of Assiut. The Patriarch of the Copts, Kirillos, went to him and said, "Come to us quickly, for we are in need of your ambassador." He asked him about his intentions and conveyed the message. He said, "I am going with companions to the monastery in the East. When we return, God willing, I will go to him and work before him." The director said, "Write about this." Kirillos took a piece of paper and wrote this article, which the director sent to Sa'id Pasha, who became furious. Then what happened to Kirillos and what befell him shortly thereafter is beyond our ability to bear, God Almighty willing.

Muhammad Sa'id Pasha, when he arrived at Khartoum, was not preoccupied with the expected war between him and Abyssinia, but rather with the affairs of the subjects and the reform of what the rulers and officials had corrupted in the country's matters, the reduction of taxes, and the replacement of some of the burdens. To all his officials in Sudan, at the end of Jumada II, year seventy-three, a decree stating: "None of you is ignorant of the effort I have made to revive the city and its civilization, and I desire all classes of subjects to live in honor and prosperity, and to cut off all injustice and oppression. Nevertheless, when I came to these regions, I saw with my own eyes what its people suffer from oppression and cruelty, and I heard with my own ears their complaints about the neglect of taxes that burdened the shoulders of the strong among them, let alone the poor, and the imposition of taxes on their irrigation and their crops, and their conscription into many works that they are unable to perform, and the forcing of their sons and daughters into all sorts of things in the markets. This saddened my heart and troubled my mind, especially since I learned that they had fled their homes to the farthest reaches of the land, escaping these calamities and the accumulated grief upon grief. Therefore, I have resolved to reform their conditions. We have realized all these calamities and heard the cries of the poor and the pleas of those who are unable to do so, which has saddened my heart.