Heavens—will the world ever again be generous enough to send forth a youth like the son of Taymiyya, or even allow such a figure to appear in the realm of dreams?

So say to the soul that was nursed on the milk of gentleness: “O soul, the wet-nurse of kindness has died—therefore be weaned.”

To the God-fearing, Imam Taqi al-Din Ahmad was counted among Allah’s very favors;
yet, by Allah, his death—may He have mercy on him—is reckoned by his lovers among the blows of calamity.

Through him the world once took pride, and now the graves whose bones have crumbled take pride in harboring him.

His exhortations were a cure for those who had strayed from the truth, healing the ailing from their sickness.

In knowledge, forbearance, and piety he became among people more renowned than fire blazing atop a beacon-hill.

Joined to his generosity was an ascetic disdain for the glitter and ornament of this world.

Indeed, even the blind beheld his virtues, and every deaf ear inclined to them.

Souls were fashioned with an inborn love for him, and in advancing this claim (1) I stand beyond suspicion.

⦗146⦘ That is only because Allah had singled him out for exalted character and noble qualities.

The light of your Lord can never be extinguished, even if the most determined schemer strove for a day and enlisted every sinner to the effort.

Who now will clarify the baffling questions, illuminating them like a flashing bolt of lightning that cleaves the darkness? (2)

People never witnessed a sight more splendid than his funeral when the bier was borne upon shoulders and lofty heights.

All around him—as he was displayed like a bride upon her couch—stood nations upon nations; suffice it to say, countless multitudes.

They implored the Lord of all servants on his account, for the special favor his Master had granted him from the very first.