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

This is your Imam and your treasure in this world of yours, without any doubt regarding him.
A pleasing path, if all the followers of the Prophet's nation were to gather,
They would not outweigh a single hair of his guidance; how then could the entirety of the community do so?
And in our view, the number of this structure is pleasing, more than six hundred.
We have made a path for those who seek to leave the wilderness, through this pleasing method.
And those who did not build his house have already prayed, so with him there shall be people of prophecy.
And if I increase your literary grace, it spreads, and the satisfied one referring to the Sheikh completes it with a veil.
By the number of men, the cycles behind him, reaching a million, million, million.
And the number of women, take it from my hand, a hundred thousand, thousand, thousand, as is my habit.
And how much the appearance of this conceals a greatest mystery, which none know except our satisfied Sheikh.
And how much has he contained within, and how many inanimate objects have spoken to him.

And how much turns