He built ornate stables that were more expensive and more elaborate than his own palace, and claimed to have spent about £4-5 million out of his obsession with horses, their decorations, and their equipment. He held special parties for the priceless flowers of his horses, and in these celebrations he often invited European ambassadors, which allowed them to choose stallions as gifts to sovereigns and heads of government.
The road was paved for Muhammad Ali to bring to him the treasure of the Arabs from the Arabian horses he wanted in his council, without him going to them, during that period many people wished to obtain Najdi horses and failed. As for Muhammad Ali, the honorable Najdi and Hijazi horses were sent to him; Desire to get close to him and woo him.
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Muhammad Ali with his powerful army took control of the entire Arabian Peninsula. At first, the Ottoman Sultan asked him to eliminate the Wahhabis in the Arabian Peninsula, so he sent his son Toson, and when he died, he summoned all his commanders, officers and statesmen and met with them, and explained to them the situation and the plan.
The story goes: Muhammad Ali Pasha put an apple in the middle of a large carpet spread in the hall, and asked them to bring the apple to him without putting a foot on the carpet, and whoever succeeds in presenting the apple to him, he will be appointed commander of the Egyptian army to succeed his son Toson in Arabia.
Many have tried and failed; Because it was difficult, and it needed some thought, and Ibrahim Pasha, the eldest son of Muhammad Ali, got up and asked to be allowed to try his hand. Everyone laughed, and waited for the father’s permission, but their contempt turned to admiration when they saw him quietly rolling the rug from its edge inward, where the apple was quickly within his reach, and then took it and handed it to his father, who promptly led him to the command of the Egyptian army; Because he passed the test, and Ibrahim Pasha proved himself to be a seasoned and brave leader within a very short period.
