when experience has purified you and trials have revealed to you praiseworthiness and trials have decreed that you be advanced and the hearts of the common people have testified to your acceptance and love and allah has cut off the excuse of everyone who sought to connect with you i sought the means to you and to connect with your rope and i died with the sanctity of etiquette and the guarantee of your generosity. and it was from the blessings of allah upon me that he made abu abdullah may allah protect him my means to you so i found the request easy and the desire praiseworthy and i achieved what is permissible to wish for and what is lost to hope so i connected my brothers with your affection and mixed me with yourself and named me in the pastures of your special people as a favor not as a reward and as a longing not as a reward so i was safe from calamities and i rose above time and i took you as a provision for events and as an impregnable fortress against the misfortunes of time.
فلما محضتك الخبرة، وكشفك الابتلاء عن المحمدة، وقضت لك التجارب بالتقدمة، وشهدت لك قلوب العامة بالقبول والمحبة، وقطع الله عذر كل من كان يطلب الاتصال بك، طلبت الوسيلة إليك والاتصال بحبلك، ومتت بحرمة الأدب وذمام كرمك. وكان من نعمة الله عندي أن جعل أبا عبد الله حفظه الله وسيلتي إليك، فوجدت المطلب سهلا والمراد محمودا، وأفضيت إلى ما يجوز الأمنية ويفوت الأمل، فوصلت إخاي بمودتك، وخلطتني بنفسك، وأسمتني في مراعي ذوي الخاصة بك، تفضلا لا مجازاة، وتطولا لا مكافاة، فأمنت الخطوب، واعتليت على الزمان، واتخذتك للأحداث عدة، ومن نوائب الدهر حصنا منيعا.