No matter how much we write and speak about our Sheikh, the fierce lion and the zealous believing lion, the Knower of God (al-'Arif billah) Habib 'Id al-Salih (may his spirit be sanctified), I would not reach a tenth of a tenth of his merit. And how can someone like me encompass what the Sheikh—may God forgive him—possessed of the subtleties of origination, and the generations of invention; novelties that ears have not encountered, to which the heart and the gaze yearn, dripping with the water of grace and elegance, blending with the parts of the soul and retrieving the fugitive familiarity. Its light flutters in a meadow of delightful words, and the radiance of luminous wisdom:

He purified it and banished the impurities from it

so it is as if When the eyes look through it, it ascends

And it is exactly as it was said:

Wondrous prose that became so delicate

that it came to Flow with the spirit just as it [the spirit] flows

His Name and Lineage

The erudite scholar and the highly perceptive sage, the unfurled banner, the firmly planted flag shining with love and worship, filled with striving (Jihad) and chivalry (Muru'ah), raised in a pure and untainted environment of fathers and grandfathers, the jurist, the narrator of Hadith, the foremost of scholars, the exemplar of worshippers and ascetics,