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He is the trusted one, and he has come to you with the knowledge of us all. If you wish to kill us, here we are before you, and if you forgive, the matter is in your hands. The Sultan said, "What led you to this?" They replied, "You brought us here to know that we have families, dependents, and children in our land. You have separated us from Ruwaym and Tamtan, and we have no business here that we need to warn you about. The reason for staying is that we do not see you as a refuge or a home, and our lives are not pleasant without our homeland. The best thing you can do for us is to return us to our homelands, for our hearts have rejected exile and yearn for our homelands." "The long distance has increased my longing and my desires, and the first land my feet touch is its soil. Especially since it has been narrated from my master, Walad al-Adnan, that love of homeland is from faith." When the Sultan heard this man's words, he sweated and feared that he would strike any of them. The crowd rose against him, for they were excused. He then got rid of them by saying, "Do you hasten death? For death is inevitable, and no one is sick without illness. It is enough for me to know about you, and it is what prevents me from traveling. If God heals me during this period, I will return you. I warn you not to do such a thing." A few days later, he showed that he was sick and stopped going to the court and looking into people's affairs, even though he was physically healthy. He did not know that from

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