منية المريد (The Desire of the Aspirant — Timbuktu Sufi MS, 1780)

Then, with the head of the chapter, he completed it for him with the best completion, by mentioning the Bestower.
The lights of guidance shone upon him, and the secrets of spiritual ascent became manifest to him.
He fulfilled in the virtues all his needs for his Lord, from the fountain of knowledge.
He overflowed with the knowledge that relates to him, coming with the peak of the mountain when it pours.
How many a hidden hadith Prophetic tradition did he explain, until its brightness appeared.
How many a verse did he interpret one day in a way that had not come to us from those who preceded.
And how much expression does this Sheikh have, with which he solved the tangled signs.
He made the profound thoughts arrive, and the secrets had refined them.
Whoever takes his high path and looks with his sublime splendor,
You see him like the noble Kaaba on the day of the circumambulation, or the standing place of Arafah.
The happy one draws near to his lights, while the ignorant aspirant turns away from him.

And the speech