and prayed for them. Then, to his great astonishment, he was found reading and distorting the words of the Quran.

On Sunday, the eighth of Ramadan, the illness intensified for Al-Mahdi. He looked at the women around him with a gaze that indicated joy at their departure, as if he were addressing them, saying, "I never thought the destroyer of pleasures would visit me before I enjoyed my..."

He was granted his wishes and the vast kingdom he had built with great suffering and the horrors of the "infant's thirst" was revealed. He raised his voice, saying, "There is no god but You, glory be to You, indeed I was among the wrongdoers." They brought him water, which was poured on his body. He spent the night of Monday in a state that worsened from bad to worse. No one was aware of the severity of his illness except the Khalifa, the Amin of the Bait al-Mal, and some of his relatives.

At the end of the eighth hour. On Monday, the ninth of Ramadan, the year 6...

Al-Mahdi, the revered one, passed away. His soul departed while he was lying on the ground, surrounded by his Khalifas, his wife, and some of his relatives. His wife, Umm Shariif, cried out, and her husband slapped her, silencing her. Sulayman Amin, the Amin of the Bait al-Mal, cried out and fainted, so much so that they thought he had died. As for the Khalifas, they gathered around him and consulted on what to do about the succession. Each of them expressed his fear of...

The death of Al-Mahdi would inevitably have dire consequences, as it would reveal the lies he had been spreading about conquering the land and possessing all of it, which was evident in the pages of his publications, many of which we have preserved.

Abdullah Al-Taa'ishi was astonished by the joy on the one hand, because Al-Mahdi had bequeathed the Caliphate to him in his last moments, and on the other hand, he was...