The strange signature at the beginning of the printed edition of the Old Said’s work Lemeât coincides with little change with my present circumstances and exactly with my seventy‑second year, so I have included it here. You can add it at the end of the defences in place of a signature if you think it is fitting, and to the Fruits and the short letters. It consists of the following three and a half lines:
The Supplicant
My demolished grave in which are heaped up sixty‑nine dead Saids with his sins and sorrows.
The seventieth is a gravestone to a grave; all together they weep at Islam’s decline.
I have hope that the skies of the future and Asia will together surrender to Islam’s clean, shining hand,
For it promises the prosperity of belief; it affords peace and security to mankind.