 All of the revenue went to a Muslim charitable institurion.In 1602, Seusenius described the Maqam Imam ´Ali as "a mosque with nine cupolas the one in the middle being the highest".The Syrian Sufi teacher and traveller Mustafa al-Bakri al-Siddiqi (1688-1748/9) who travelled in the region in the first half of the eighteenth century, and Mustafa al-Dumyati (d. 1764) reported visiting the shrine of a sage called Sayyiduna ("our master") Haydara in Yazur.