فاتفق الرأي في مضي الملك العادل على أنه يمضي، بحيث يجتمع بعساكرنا التي في الغور وكوكب وتلك النواحي ويحدثه ويقول له إن الحديث جرى بيننا مرارًا، وما أسفر عن مصلحة
The sultan convened a council to discuss whether al-‘Adil should go and it was agreed that he should, provided that he rendezvoused with our troops that were in the Jordan Valley, at Kawkab and in those regions, and that in his talks he should say, ‘On many occasions there have been talks between us, which have yielded no useful result