مكتبة كتيبة محمّد بن نصير Muhammad bin Nusayr's Library Bibliothèque de Muhammad bin Nusayr کتابخانه کتیبه محمد بن نصیر

مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

The Epistle of Admonition in the Gnosis of Transcendence - Ahmad al-Istibari

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During the translation process, I faced numerous challenges, perhaps the most prominent being that many vocabularies and expressions in the original text carry special semantic and spiritual charges formed over a long history of religious and philosophical usage, such that no single word in the target language suffices to cover all their dimensions. Therefore, it was sometimes necessary to choose the closest possible meanings or use explanatory structures, while acknowledging that some semantic depth may not be transferred completely as it exists in the primary language.

Furthermore, the difference in linguistic structures and the variance in cultural backgrounds between the two languages may naturally lead to subtle differences in understanding or suggestion. These differences are not to be considered flaws in the translation so much as they are the natural result of any human effort seeking to build a bridge between two languages and two worldviews.

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