and from their factions and followers, and whoever spoke well of them or approved an opinion for them, a localized preservation and an eternal veiling, by the mercy of the essence of Your Unseen, O Most Merciful of the merciful; indeed, You are the Succor of him who seeks Your aid and the hope of him who resorts to You, for I have relied in all my affairs upon You.

And I named it "Guidance for the Seeker and the Lamp of the Monotheist," and I hope from Allah the Exalted that it be matching to its name and fulfilling of what is in its form, by His grace, His power, and His good success; this is despite my knowledge that the one wading into the sea of composition and the one walking the path of authorship is not free from an envier in whose heart is a disease, or a stubborn person for whom no purpose remains straight.

So they cast stones from the unseen through imagination while they are not witnesses, and they distort the direction of his words toward their corrupt purpose; and I seek refuge in Allah that this book of ours falls to one of this description. Therefore, we ask Allah, the Most High, the Magnificent, by the pride of the names of His Essence, and by the Essence of His names, and by the greatness of His Essence, and by the Essence of His greatness, and by the Essence of His pride, and by the pride of His Essence, that no one looks into this book or touches it except the masters who possess intellects (Dhawi al-Albab).