And know that when the desires prevailed over the souls and the scholars sought ranks with the kings, they abandoned the white argument and tended to far-fetched interpretations to follow the purposes of the kings in what they had in mind their own desires, and to base that on a legal matter even though the jurist may not believe that and give fatwas according to it, and we have seen a group of them who agree. This is one of their judges and jurists, and King Al-Zahir Ghazi, the son of King Al-Nasir, Saladin Yusuf bin Ayyub, told me, and something like this occurred between me and him. He called Mamlouk and said, “Bring me the Haramdan.” I said to him, “What’s the matter with the Haramdan?” He said, “You denounce what is happening in my country and my kingdom of abominations and injustice, and I, by God, believe it.” Like what you think, that all of this is objectionable, but by God, sir, none of it is objectionable.