and sixty-six pilgrimages have left us — with no plea at all for mounting the steed of frivolous delight.

He would also recite, in the mujazʾ of the kāmil metre:

Knowledge comes to every humble soul,
yet (1) it spurns all who turn away;
like water it pours into the valleys
and never climbs the lofty heights.

[Then the year 619 AH began.]

In that year the coffin of al-ʿĀdil was transferred from the Citadel to his mausoleum in the Great ʿĀdiliyya. The funeral prayer was first performed for him beneath the Eagle in the Umayyad Mosque; thereafter they brought him to the said mausoleum and buried him there. The madrasa (2) had not yet been finished, but its construction was likewise completed in that very year (3). The post of lecturer (4) was entrusted to Qāḍī Jamāl al-Dīn al-Miṣrī. The Sultan al-Muʿaẓẓam attended the inaugural session, seating himself at the foremost place; on his left sat the qāḍī (5), and on his right Jamāl al-Dīn al-Ḥaṣīrī, the shaykh of the Ḥanafīs (6). Also present were Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ (7), the Sultan’s imam; Shaykh Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī (8) — seated next to the lecturer — with Shams al-Dīn ibn Sanāʾ al-Dawla (9) beside him; next came Najm Khalīl (10), the army judge. Below al-Ḥaṣīrī sat Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Shīrāzī (11), and beneath him Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-Zakī (12). A large company of notables and dignitaries attended, among them Fakhr al-Dīn ibn ʿAsākir (13).