style of writing is wretched too. But don't get carried away imagining this, for all those knowledgeable about a science are not necessarily expert in it. Moreover, the power of attraction, which is centripetal, prevails over the power of repulsion, which is centrifugal. For the ear is near the brain and close to the intellect, whereas the heart, the source of speech, is distant from the tongue and a stranger to it. Also, very often the tongue does not understand the heart's tongue. Especially if the heart tintinnabulates from the depths of some matter, like from the bottom of a well, the tongue will not hear it at all, so how could it interpret it?

In Short: It is easier to understand than to make understood, and that's that!

Apology

Patient and steadfast friend who has accompanied me on this narrow, sharp, dark road! I reckon you have only been an astonished observer in this Second Article, not a listener. Because you haven't understood it. You're quite justified, for the matters are very profound, the conduits are lengthy, and the phrases extremely concise and obscure. My Turkish is also somewhat deficient and confused, and I have little time, am in haste, my health is impaired, and my head is full of cold. In such a disarranged field, only these words could emerge: "Apologies are accepted by the noble!"

Brother! Combine the Element of Reality as the greater (the major premise) with the Element of Rhetoric and Eloquence as the lesser (the minor premise). Pass an accurate intuition (hads-ı sâdık) through them like an electric current so that they may infuse your brain with the ability to produce the impassioned, shining, and light-filled Element of Doctrine.

Now we shall seek the Element of Doctrine in the Third Section.

I am beginning, thus...