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Al-Karaki Epistle - Jamal al-Din al-Karaki

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so the person indicated to previously pointed to me that it is necessary that you register for us something that will be a mention for you after you and a benefit for whoever follows it of your brothers and your children.

So I answered him: Indeed, I am of little occupation with the Arabic language and grammar, and I fear that melody-error and omission will enter upon me, so he said to me: Our purpose is not upon that this is Zayd, nor I saw Zayd, nor I passed by Zayd.

But our purpose is in the correctness of the organization of the arrangement of the meanings and the names and the arrangement of the persons, each in his rank and his degree and his placement in his location and his status, so if this is organized and became clear, we left what came in the grammatical anecdotes and we rejected what Sibawayh said and we discarded what Naftawayh brought and we cast away the disputation of the astrologers and the struggle of the teachers and what they eat by trickery and fraud of the wealth of the Muslims, so upon whoever appointed them for the nation and established them in the position of the Imams be the curse of God and the curse of the cursers upon them until the Day of Judgment.

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