And they receive the arriving guests, and the camels bring men and women. Each group works in its place, and they bring them food and drink according to their status. Among them, they bring them porridge and *barzaf*, called *bura* in Egypt, and boiled and roasted meat. Some bring them mushrooms and another drink called *nabit*, which they call *umm bulbul*. If a group of their scholars attends, they bring porridge and meat in a traditional manner, which they call *dira thra*. Then they say in their places: "Until the heat subsides." The esteemed guest is honored. Then the women form rows, row after row. A row of women faces a row of young men. The women who are with them bring drums and beat them, and they say their words. Then a row of women emerges, walking with grace and dancing with passion, bowing to the ground until they reach the row of men. Each young man considers a young woman until she places her face and his face together and shakes her head for a moment until she strikes him with perfumed sparks in his face, and her sparks are scented with incense and various perfumes they know. Then the young man enters and shakes his hair over her head. Then she turns back, following him until she reaches her first place. The man receives her, and she retreats backwards until she reaches the place where the man was standing. Then they exchange places, finding the row of women fixed in the place of the row of men, and vice versa.

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