This sheet was written by the Shaykh himself and dispatched (1) more than three months after the books had been taken from him, in the month of Shawwal, roughly a month and a half before his passing.

When the books and papers in his possession were removed, they were carried to Judge ʿAlaʾ al-Din al-Qunawi and placed under his supervision in the ʿAdiliyya madrasa (2).

After their removal, the Shaykh devoted himself to worship, recitation, remembrance, and night prayer until certainty came to him.

During the time he was confined in the citadel he completed the Qur’an eighty—or eighty-one—times. In his final completion he reached the end of “Iqtarabat” (3): “Indeed, the righteous will be in gardens and a river, in a seat of truth before a Sovereign, All-Powerful” (Qamar 54-55). It was then finished for him after his death while he lay shrouded (4).

Each day he would read three juzʾ, thus completing (5) the Qur’an every ten days; so his brother Zayn al-Din informed me.

His illness lasted a little over twenty days, and most people were unaware of it; nothing reached the masses but the news of his death (6), whereupon the grief for him intensified and weeping and sorrow spread,