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Sardar Alish Al-Masri in released from captivity. Although I thanked him, he did not see me.
He called him successful and in the hand of every noble.
He directed him to fight Sennar.
We mentioned what happened from the beginning of the revolution that started around Sennar and its suppression.
On the hand of Abd Al-Qadir Hamza Pasha.
And when Khartoum fell into the hands of his son, Ibn Mahdi, he sent a force of about twenty thousand fighters to tighten the siege on Sennar, so he arrived there in the last days of Jumada al-Ula and surrounded it like a bracelet around a wrist. We will return to mention those events.
Where the Emir of Sennar was after the death of the Mahdi by three months. And when the Mahdi went to bid farewell to the army, he gave a sermon in which he said the following: "O my truthful Ansar, go forth with the blessing of God to fight the infidels of Sennar, and know that God is with you. And He will grant you a mighty victory, for you are the party of God and His allies. They are the party of Satan, and the party of God is stronger than the party of Satan. And the Prophet, peace be upon him, has given me good tidings that Sennar will be conquered soon, and that after the month of Ramadan, we will advance to Dongola, and from there to Egypt, and in the second year we will have crossed Egypt, where we will be at the gates of the two eastern cities.
Mention of the appointment of Sheikh Al-Hussein Zahra to Kassala.
The Mahdi appointed Sheikh Al-Hussein Zahra, accompanied by Ibrahim Aam Al-Malawi and Hamad Hamza Al-Barabari to Kassala, the first and second as his deputies to proceed with the Director of Kassala.