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- 87 -If you look towards the sky, you will see a great horror in the west, tinged with anger due to the scarcity of love among mankind, and the abundance of death in it, then in war. It has ended, and I saw this written on a paper in that year, from the papers of our Sheikh, the learned scholar Saeed bin Al-Faqih Muhammad bin Muhammad Kord, may God protect him and preserve him, Amen. May God grant us and the Muslims safety in it, Amen. It was a wonder of wonders to the people of our time. This, and they kept talking about it, but they did not know what it was. May God show us good or protect us from evil, and may God grant us safety and salvation in it, Amen. And whoever died at that hour from the days after. And on Tuesday, the last day of Ramadan of that year, Aisha bint Al-Faqih Muhammad Baghigh bin Al-Alamah Abu Ishaq Al-Faqih Al-Imam Ibrahim bin Ahmed bin Mahmoud Baghigh Al-Wonkri, may God have mercy on her, Amen. And on Friday, the twenty-seventh of Dhu al-Hijjah Al-Haram, the last month of the year fifty-five and one hundred and one thousand, died the scholar of jurisprudence Ahmed bin Abdullah Al-Faqih Ahmed Tagh bin Al-Faqih Al-Ajall Al-Imam Ibrahim bin Ahmed bin Mahmoud Baghigh Al-Wonkri. He died separated, may God have mercy on him. This was due to what came from Hati and reached his dwelling place, a place near another place called Kani Bend, and he spent the night there. Then he got up from there at dawn in haste and went to Marsa Kabr to precede him. He drowned there, and this is what was intended by it, and God knows best. When his boat set off and reached the known place called Kani Bend, he drowned there, and the boat disappeared with all the people and belongings in it. The people of Kabr informed his elder brother, Al-Imam Ibrahim, to call him to attend. He came with Commander Saeed bin Mansour, who came to his aid, but they did not see him until two days later. When they saw him, they took him to Tanbukt and buried him next to Sayyid Ahmed Maya, may God have mercy on him. He died, his son, his slave girl, his slave, and everyone who was in the boat. As for Kani Bend, it is a place.

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