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and those taken by the French, young ones. I found an old woman who remained on her religion. And a man who converted to Christianity, called Abd al-Mal, and it is said that he was a servant of the French in Egypt. A girl, who was with them in their days, then when they traveled, she followed them. He remained on his Islam for about fifteen years, then after that he converted to Christianity, and God is the protector, because of marriage to a Christian woman. Then he died shortly after. I saw his two sons and daughters who came to Egypt and they are on the religion of Christianity. One of them is now a teacher in the school of Abu Za'bal. And similarly, what some people told me about the Muslim commander in Egypt, who was in charge of the army in Egypt, named Kuleiz, with a "Kaf" and a "Lam" and a "Ba", he had converted to Islam in Egypt hypocritically, as it appeared, and was called Abdullah. He married a Sharifian woman from the nobles of Rashid. When the French left Egypt and he wanted to return, he took her with him. When he arrived, he returned to Christianity and exchanged the turban for a fez. He stayed with his wife, who was on her religion, for a period of days. When she gave birth and her husband wanted to baptize his son according to the Christian custom to make him a Christian, the wife refused, saying, "I will not baptize my son at all, nor will I expose him to false religion." The husband said to her, "All religions are true, and their goal is one, which is good deeds." But she did not agree to that at all. He said to her, "The Quran speaks of this, and you are a Muslim, so you must believe in the book of your Prophet." Then he sent for the scholar of the Coptic community in the Arabic language, the Baron. He asked him, and he was the one who knew how to read the Quran. He said to her, "Ask him about that." She asked him, and he answered her by saying that in the Quran it is said: "Indeed, those who have believed and those who were Jews and the Christians and the Sabians - those [among them] who believe in Allah and the Last Day and do righteousness will have their reward with their Lord, and no fear will there be concerning them, nor will they grieve." She was amazed by that, so she took her son for baptism. After that, the matter ended, as it is said that she converted to Christianity and died as an infidel. And among the Egyptians I saw in Marseille, a man