A Sufi Poem about Al-Mahdi’s Illness and Healing

The following verses are from the poem Al-Hawiyya by the Sufi Shaykh Salah al-Din al-Qusi — may Allah have mercy upon him — in which he speaks about the physical illness of Imam al-Mahdi and his healing.

They said, "Tell us about the Mahdi of Sorrows."
I said, "Someday a group of three and a surgeon will come to him at once.
They will open his belly and relieve him of the burden,
And they will purify his intestines and extract a dark lump of flesh from his one-foot-long intestine, which is like a bitter tube.

And he will not understand at that moment and will just fall asleep like a drunkard.
He will think that he is lost and his imagination will perplex him.
So they will come to him that day to complete what will uplift his heart,
And to remove all that his worldly life has left as a trace within him,
So that he will know nothing of the world except the purity he has gained.
And Taha [the Prophet Muhammad] has entrusted them with him and said: 'Bring him to me, even by force' — He who is drowning, surrounded by enemies, and whose eyes wander from oppression.