بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ 

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate

All benedictions are due to the Pre-Eternal Sovereign, Eternally All-Wise, the Undying Most-Merciful, Who has honoured us with Islam and guided us with the Illustrious Shari'a to the straight path.

Such a Shari'a that reason and transmitted knowledge have united to affirm the veracity of its truths.

Such truths that being firmly rooted in the ground of reality, their boughs and branches rise spreading to the skies of perfection. Such branches that they yield the fruits of happiness in this world and the next.

And He has guided us through the Inimitable Qur'an;

Such a Book that having disclosed through its principles the precise, profound, divine laws inscribed by the hand of destiny and pen of wisdom in the book of the world's creation, and are in force in it, it has become the absolute guarantor through its just injunctions of mankind's order, balance, and progress, and is its universal master.

Endless blessings be bestowed upon the Prince of the Universe and Glory of the World to whose messengership the world with all its realms and their beings testified, and to whose miracles it bore witness, and announced the lofty wares he brought from the treasury of the unseen. As though on coming into the world, each realm applauded him in its own tongue. The Pre-Eternal Monarch, plucking the strings of the heavens and the earth so that each with a