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

And what makes the aspirant murid student of Sufism happy, and repels the denier and the suspicious one.
So no person shall deny its victory one day, and the tongue is incapable of describing it.
Can the pebbles of the desert be counted, or can the stars of the sky be counted?
Among that is his following of the Sunnah Prophetic tradition, and it is for the men the best of it.
And he was in that incomparable, and not equaled, nor competed with.
And he was from his childhood mentioned for it, and he remained famous for it.
And from it is the vision of the Prophet, the Guide, and it is for them the ultimate goal.
And it is not absent from him, for the depth of his sea, in wakefulness, in what he has of his thought.
On the day of Monday and Friday, he saw him entering Paradise, tomorrow.
Without reckoning, no, and no punishment, rather he is safe from the torment.
And everything that is dictated is from the Best of Creation, translated in his own wording without doubt.

And from it