and may the kinds of bounty that flow from Allah’s favors and His good-pleasure continue to be bestowed upon you.
The last of them—consisting of forty-eight lines—(1)
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- (2) Among them is an elegy by Shaykh Shihab al-Din Abu al-Abbas Ahmad b. ʿAbd al-Karim b. ʿAbd al-Samad b. Anushirwan, a Hanafi of Tabrizi origin, known as Ibn al-Karshab (3), may Allah have mercy upon him:
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The calamity is universal; do not weep for Ibn Taymiyya, the man of learning and wisdom, with anything less than tears of blood.
The sage of mankind has departed in tranquillity; let every eyelid that does not pour forth tears for him be counted blind. (4)
Shame on the eyelid of any eye that once beheld him yet, now that parting has taken him away, remains unmoved.
Were every devout soul on earth to ransom the life of Imam Taqi al-Din, he would incur no blame.
Whenever one who loved his company remembers him, longing convulses him from crown to heel.
He cries out for relief from the arrow that has struck him—and what an arrow was the shaft by which this calamity was hurled!
O breach torn open in the religion and ever widening, you shall not be closed until the Meeting and the Day of Gathering.