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We have also mentioned that even if the ruling Sultan has a mother, she has a position, and even if it is a grandmother, she also has a position. However, these two positions are not permanent, but rather temporary and exist when they are present. I saw Sultan Muhammad Fadl's mother, and she was a slave, and she followed what she saw and traded. I saw his grandmother, and she was passing through, and it was the ugliest thing to see, and she was beyond the Sudanese. She was deficient in intellect, and due to her lack of intellect, she would sit on a chair, and men would carry her on their necks for long journeys, and a large number of soldiers were with her. Some people whispered to her that the people of Darfur were saying that this servant had been cut off. When she heard that, she sat in her diwan and summoned all her followers and said, "I am the servant who brought silver and brought gold." And they say that I am the servant of "baha" (with a neglected letter), and she meant the servant with proof, but she was unable to pronounce "baha" (with a doubled letter). There are other positions that we have refrained from mentioning due to their obscurity. As for the Sultan's council, know that the Sultan of Fur's house is in the middle of his town called Al-Nashir and Al-Najulah. He made two doors for his house. One is the greater one, called "Masiridia," meaning the door of men. The second is called "Masiridia," meaning the door of women. And each of them has

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