Muhammed Yusuf Khan initially succeeded and became the Nawab, forcing Muhammed Ali to escape to the rock-fort in Tiruchirapalli. Chanda Sahib followed and with the help of the French, besieged Trichy. Muhammed Ali and the English force supporting him were in a grim position. Ensign Robert Clive, (who had earlier joined the East India Company as a writer) with a small English force of 300 soldiers made a diversionary attack on Arcot to draw away Chanda Sahib's army from Trichy. Chanda Sahib dispatched a 10,000 strong force under his son Raza Sahib to retake Arcot. Raza Sahib was aided by the Nellore Army
Muhammed al-Ahari single-issue periodical "Meditations" from the Bilali Muhammad Research Society. When Muhammed returned to Chicago in 1990, he attended the American Islamic College for two additional years and restarted his Magribine Press with an edited edition of Muhammed Alexander Rusell Webb's "Islam in America" (1993), an edited edition of Shaykh Daoud's "al-Islam, the True Faith of Humanity" (2003), and his translation of the Fiqh text called the "Ben Ali Diary" or the Bilali Document, written by Bilali Muhammad of Sapelo Island, Georgia. In 2005 Muhammed continued his work of reprinting edited, annotated editions of early American Muslim texts with the "100