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And he went to the place where those devils had descended, and he stopped the people who approached him. He stood for a long time, and the people looked at him, and he did not move. He stood, looking, and then he went back and informed the people that they had pledged allegiance, and that he had been busy organizing their ranks and instilling love for them, like the love of the Ansar for the Mahdi. Then he said: They have invited me to a meeting with them, and I will meet them. And among the funny things is that a man from the Dukkuri tribe had a hut near that place. So he packed his belongings one day, and with him his wife and children, and they came to Al-Ta'ayshi in the mosque. He complained to Al-Ta'ayshi, saying: "We have left our homes and our huts because of the great noise, fires, the neighing of our horses, and all their movements that made us lose sleep and took away our strength out of fear and terror." Al-Ta'ayshi laughed and said to them: "What made you lose sleep and what frightened you? Did you not know that these jinn have become followers of the Mahdi, and that they are servants of the Khalifa, and they would not dare to harm any of the Mahdi's followers, and that the laws of the Mahdi are applied to them?" They said: "Our master, they have strange and frightening forms. Some have heads without bodies, and some have bodies without heads. Some are flying, and some are crawling." He said: "Return to your places and do not fear." They raised their voices in weeping and said: "We are poor, and our hut is better than this hut, and we have left it." He laughed with a laugh that stemmed from joy, and ordered that the man be given five hundred riyals for his hut, and that he be given a salary from the treasury to cover the needs of his family. He went to pledge allegiance to the jinn, and he asked those who had pledged allegiance. And Al-Ta'ayshi heard the jinn saying behind him: "Did you see anything or feel anything?" Most of them remained silent. He laughed.

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