[The assault on the Shaykh by a faction and his pardon of them]
In the month of Rajab (1) of the year 711 AH, a man—so it reached me—came to the Shaykh’s brother, Shaykh Sharaf al-Din, who was (2) in his lodging in Cairo, and said to him, “A group in the congregational mosque of Misr have banded together against the Shaykh, seized him (3), and beaten him.”
He replied, “Allah is sufficient for us, and He is the best Trustee!” One of the Shaykh’s companions was sitting with Sharaf al-Din at the time and relates: “I rose from his presence and made my way to Misr. I found a large crowd from al-Husayniyyah (4) and elsewhere—both men on foot and mounted horsemen—asking after the Shaykh. I continued until I found him in the Mosque of al-Fakhr, the scribal mosque of the Mamluks on the riverfront. A number of people had gathered around him, and the crowd kept swelling. Someone said to him, ‘Master, a host from al-Husayniyyah has arrived; if you were to order them to demolish the whole of Misr, they would do it.’
The Shaykh said to them, ‘For what purpose (5)?’
They replied (6), ‘For your sake.’