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With fame, you are encouraged to commit adultery and to go forth to men, for they have no knowledge of it. Reluctance towards it, if she was old, and they waved her to the position of her son. And the dignity of the Sudanese person. It was told to me by one of the most esteemed companions, And the best advisor, I do not remember his name, that Sultan Muhammad Fadl al-Masih Muhammad Teynal, his wife, his sister, and she was the mother of the Sultans, and her age was thirty-five years. A woman among them, and she prepared a great festival for him. The people rushed to rejoice. Upon it, they informed him that it was from the haste of the joyful. They said, "While I was standing, the mother of the Sultan came, And with her a flock of women like gazelles, and she walked In front of them, and he was behind her, and she was a slave, ugly in appearance, and ill-formed. The fault of the righteous is not found among the inhabitants of Darfur, for they are from The house from which he is. So the noble ones standing were amazed that God Almighty Had brought this woman, with her ugliness of self and origin, over those who were More beautiful in face, origin, lineage, splendor, and beauty. He said, "So she entered upon her brother, Teytar, and it was time for him to sleep. He was marrying. I was with him for a while, then she came out. She said, "We did not feel anything but the adornment of jewelry and perfumes, and the fragrance of incense. We knew that she was coming out. So we stood in rows until she came out. We did not feel her until she took my hand And pulled me to go with her. I wanted to listen, and as if I resisted, she pushed me.