The same situation obtained in the civil service. For example, a scribe who lost his sight as a result of years of hard work in the bureaucracy was also designated as a sakat and also was not entitled to a pension. He would be dismissed as soon as he went completely blind.

XREF: Connects to the earlier claim about conscripted and coerced laborers under Mehmed Ali, extending the theme of state cruelty beyond military conscription into the civil service and disabled workers. Builds on: "Elderly and disabled villagers were executed purely for being useless."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 1458