6 His Majesty the Sultan, by the grace of God, reigned during the days of the Sultanate, and he did not limit himself to his arrival except for a little. It was reported from the Sultan with satisfaction with Muhammad Ali Pasha and acceptance of a general governorship over the lands of Egypt and the Arab countries, and he made this governorship in his lineage after him, the most guided, along with the governorship of Sidon and Tripoli, on the condition that he undertake the campaign to the Sultan's treasury on time and lower the wing of obedience to his master and entrust his affairs in secret and in public. In some narrations, when Sarim Effendi returned to the Sultanate and learned of the back-and-forth between him and Muhammad Ali Pasha, the Sultan decreed on the sixteenth of Dhu al-Qi'dah, and it was said the fourteenth of Dhu al-Hijjah in the year eight hundred and forty-two AH, the granting of the governorship of Egypt to Muhammad Ali Pasha, and the governorship of his son Prince Ibrahim over Jeddah, and the handover of the Makkah banner to him, with the addition of Syria to Egypt, making it an inheritance for his descendants after him. The narrator said that when Sarim Effendi went to Egypt, he took the Sultan's decree and made it the basis of this agreement, and he stayed with Muhammad Ali Pasha in Alexandria. He received him well and treated him with great kindness and gentleness, saying to him, "Do you give the lands of Syria to the Turks as you give them to my descendants after me?" Sarim Effendi replied, saying, "This would be contrary to what the Commander of the Faithful has permitted, and the interest lies in preventing the shedding of Muslim blood and not fighting God and His Messenger." Muhammad Ali Pasha said, "There is no way but what I say, and there is no interest for me except in what I am asking for." Sarim Effendi said, "And the interest, in my opinion, is that you humble yourself before the Sultan, so that the matter ends and this verse is revealed." Then he said, "After God wills." Sarim Effendi returned to the Sultanate, and his matter with Muhammad Ali Pasha was not completed. He said, "After Sarim Effendi, the treaty that was agreed upon in the city of Kutahya, which was the seat of Prince Ibrahim and his armies at that time, was concluded with him upon his departure to Egypt." I said, "And I have the right to know the details of this treaty of Kutahya, as it is one of the most important historical matters concerning Muhammad Ali Pasha's dealings with the Sultanate. I have not found any trace of it, nor have I come across any news of it in the works of Eastern and Western authors, especially the French author Thevenot, who undertook to collect all the treaties, agreements, and letters that passed between all the states and the Ottoman Sultanate. However, I found in his aforementioned work, page 350, the following text: 'Western historians have long claimed that the dispute between the Sublime Porte and Muhammad Ali Pasha, the ruler of Egypt, ended with the treaty called Kutahya, which is in the city located in Lesser Asia. In my opinion, there is no trace of this treaty whatsoever, and it was never concluded. At most, the Sultan sent some imperial decrees and negotiations to Muhammad Ali Pasha, which Muhammad Ali Pasha acted upon, intending to clarify what the Sultan wanted from him, regarding the concessions and other privileges necessitated by the circumstances. Then, after the two parties exchanged views and the reasons were clarified, a truce was reached between the two parties for a period of time.' Then Muhammad Ali Pasha immediately sent to the Sultanate after the departure."