He would greet everyone he met with cheerfulness and contentment, graced by the finest qualities and a pure soul.

He prayed for those who had chipped away at his honor, never retaliating against the one who caused him harm.

He hastened to every good deed, both openly and in secret, and turned away from pleasures at every instant.

[Q 162] He strove in the cause of the Most Generous with all his strength—truthfully, sincerely, resolutely, and with pure intent.

Out of love for his Lord he enjoined what is right, and with determined zeal he forbade indecency.

God-fearing, pure, and untarnished from his youth, he was noble-minded and endowed with praiseworthy traits.

Is he not the one whose fame has spread throughout the universe, whose monumental legal verdicts have reached all creation?

Tell me, without partisanship: who else could be the crown of the gnostics in our time, the Shaykh of guidance?

He is the erudite scholar, the spiritual pole whose renown has become universal, whose fragrance wafts like crushed perfume.

Whenever we recall his states and attributes, it is as though we have entered bliss itself, a verdant garden.

Rejoice, Abū al-ʿAbbās, in nearness and divine approval; you have attained everything you hoped for in perfect joy.

O Taqī al-Dīn, unrivalled man of your age, your flashes have shone forth like a radiant sun.

Your qualities are now manifest to all, gushing like abundant springs.

You appeared with every branch of knowledge, and caravans carried news of it to every land.

You brought to light what had been hidden from people, in every field and in the rarest disciplines (1).

You clarified the difficult, explained the obscure, and unveiled secrets with a discerning soul.

How often you plunged into the ocean of gnosis, diving deep and bringing up every unique pearl.

You emerged in beneficence and generous magnanimity, in religion, pure monotheism, and every virtue.