Then contemplate regarding that, the poetry of the Sufi philosopher al-Makzun (may his spirit be sanctified)—who suffered what he suffered—that is his saying recorded in his Diwan, communing with the Creator of the heavens and the earth:

I see myself, for Your sake, afflicted

by Satan with hardship

And with defamation from my neighbor

and with disobedience from my child!

And the most severe of what I endure

is from the brethren due to envy, Yet I am not concerned with that

for how could I be, when You are my reliance.

Illuminations from the Kalbite Roll of Honor Pertaining to the Author's Lineage

He is the erudite, the monotheist, Sheikh Habib Eid al-Salih of the family of Yusuf Bashman, the Kalbite, the Kinanite, the Tanukhid.