 The Egyptian historian Laila Morsy wrote that Nahas never really tried to reach an understanding with the Palace, and treated Farouk as an enemy from the start, seeing him as a threat to the Wafd.The Wafd ran a powerful patronage machine in rural Egypt and the enthusiastic response of the "fellaheen" to the king as he threw gold coins at them during his tours of the countryside was viewed by Nahas as a major threat.Nahas sought to prevent the king from "parading" himself before the masses, claiming that the king's royal tours cost the government too much money, and as the Wafd was a secularist party, charged that Farouk's overt religiosity violated the constitution.