Sultanic Swords - Muhammad Al-Awn

The Arabs revolted in Upper Egypt and the Nile Delta. Sharif Hussam El-Din Tha'lab, the glory of the Arabs, rose and said: "We are the owners of this land. What do these Turks have to do with the ships and controlling the country and its people? They jumped onto the throne and coveted it, yet they are purchased slaves, whose boys are bought and sold until they rise to become princes. We will never accept their authority or their rule over us. How can those named Aybak, Kutbugha, Aqtay, Qalawun, Yelbugha, and Baybars rule over us, the Arabs, when they are strangers who came from the ends of the earth, do not speak our language, and do not know our traditions…."
A boy, about ten years old, walks with a large group of young boys, led by the copper merchant who brought them from their distant lands… When they reached Palestine and Egypt was only a few days' journey away, he would sit with them at night after the caravan had rested and the camels, exhausted from walking all day, had knelt… He would gather them after they had eaten dinner to tell them about the luxury and glory they would find in Egypt, and about the future days that would witness their happiness when they became soldiers and warriors in the army of Egypt and Syria.