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IV.D7.CCCXXXII. OF THE SUDAN 405 Book spoke the words " Be ye separated this day [from the righteous] , O ye evildoers ! " CCCXXXII This substitute, whose works were perversion and substitution, arrived on the 2nd of Ramadan in this year, and from the day of his arrival he terrorized the people by such wholesale injustice as had never been experienced by them individually or collectively at the hands of any of the rulers who preceded him, and as would, if mentioned, blacken the pages of the records and cause the heart of the historian to bleed for pity. Therefore we have drawn a veil over the details and recognized that to shroud the foulness of his deeds in a short summary is preferable to expounding them at length.

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