The descriptions of her are such that describing them would exhaust mankind. Time adorns her beauty and bestows upon her the finest qualities, unlike any other. The learned, ocean-like, and profoundly knowledgeable Hafni Bey Nassif, the judge in the native court, mourned him, saying: "Tear open your hearts and depart with your limbs, and let tears flood the horizons. Let your souls yearn for your eyelids, and let them shed tears like spilled blood. Abandon your desires, lest you remain with burning hearts, and set forth with your eyes. The noble Muhammad has departed this world. Oh, how my soul longs for one who can bear separation! His death struck like a branch of a date palm, and its news spread across the lands. It enveloped mankind, unexpected, like summer arriving in the morning, sending forth its heat. And the resonance of its impact deafened the ears, while grief was the first to awaken the tongues. The world of time is every light turned to darkness, and the world of place is every joy turned to sorrow. I implore you, and those who departed with Muhammad, from the people of Al-Ru'aysa, have they not been afflicted? Do you know of anyone who has lived or pleaded, to whom patience could not grant beautiful release? What is this calamity, what is this sorrow, on the day of departure, as if it were a terrible, overwhelming flood? May it not be a day when his mourners walk, casting blood upon the paths of men. It is but an hour, and fate's arrow strikes, and calamity has befallen us and overwhelmed us. He perished, a victim, yet no heart did not tremble, no heart was not beating. The moon was veiled, and he was in his prime, eclipsed and extinguished in his demise. I thought them to be the necks of men, and for so long his necklaces had encircled their necks. They left him deliberately in darkness, though he would not accept lamps to witness his radiance. He settled in the graves, while he had built many palaces, and sought refuge in chambers and lofty dwellings. If he surpassed kings in glory, he surpassed them even more in lofty status. He was created as the prophets were sent, gentle and pure, reflecting tenderness and friendship. And his presence was such that vision stopped before it, and the listener found solace in it. And his expression conveyed elevated nourishment, and his speech, encompassing meaning, removed obscurity. And the question of the seed of meaning was clear, and his eloquence guided the intellect to clarity. The swimmer beat upon him until his beating heart could not be burdened by his generosity."