The firmest bond has no separation.

The uniqueness of this edition lies in the fact that it is the first and only print run — in over a century — of the "matching" copy of the oldest printed original, which can be found for our esteemed newspaper. It is the edition printed at the Tawfiq printing house in Beirut, owned by Nasseb Sabra, in the year 1328 AH (around 1910 AD). The full texts of the newspaper reveal, when placed alongside other texts of Al-Afghani, that Muhammad Abduh’s role in this volume — as an editor — was limited to that of a linguistic proofreader or a scribe, a role not much different from Muhammad Al-Makhzumi’s role in the memoirs, nor from the role of the second editor of the newspaper, which all Arab scholars working on this matter ignore; that is the Iranian intellectual eccentric: Mirza Baqir Bovanati! The little concern Mr. Afghani showed for writing did not weaken his keen insistence on dictating what he saw and believed word for word, editing all terms, and scrutinizing all expressions, even choosing titles for what is published under his name, just as any genuine thinker who respects himself would do. There are many, even consistent, proofs of this. However, his insufficient care for his documented production made it easy for some of his "students" to plagiarize him, even to the extent of attributing some of Jamal al-Din’s writings to himself, or remaining silent about Rachid Rida’s actions! Despite the magnitude of this volume, our journey with Al-Afghani’s texts is still in its early stages. We began by publishing the complete memoirs of the السيد with verification, and now we are proud to present this great volume, promising our dear reader two more books by السيد after their verification and editing into an unprecedented form in over a century: "The Completion of the Clarification in the History of the Afghans" and "The Response to the Dahris." May God help us.