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Sabeeqa wanted to fight the owner of the handkerchief and said to him, "You have wronged me in my territory, I must kill you." So they went to him and appeased him, and magnified the return of his camels until they satisfied him with their young. And the fifth was for the Caliph, son of Sultan Tirab, whom we have mentioned before. And their agreement was that Sheikh Muhammad Awz had, in the days of Sultan Tirab, held the position of "Abuwwa" (fatherhood/leadership). And it was the custom of the "Abuwwa" to go to his lands and his kin every year in the spring season, and gather the people of the land on one day, and present the men and review the soldiers. So he gathered them on a very hot day in a wide open space in front of his house, and did not give them their due. So the narrator said that he went out in his finery, riding his horse, and the slaves fanned him from the sun and fanned him with palm leaves. And the army came out and lined up the people in rows like a circle, and he watched them. And the heat intensified. The people were about to fall on their knees, with their weapons and shields in their hands, so that some of them could not even stand due to the intensity of the heat. Sweat flowed, and anxiety increased. He remained for a long time, not ordering anything, nor forbidding anything. The people were thirsty, and the sun took its toll on them, and they were patient with what God had decreed for them, until some of them died of thirst. When he saw the anxiety of the people and the confusion of his loved ones, he laughed and said in a clear voice.

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