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And I have always, whenever someone proposed to me the idea of publishing a book, responded immediately with an answer, which is that I fear the nightmare of the first book, that I present to people something that does not deserve the money paid for it or the printing it, and then it becomes the book from which people know you. Therefore, translation was the window through which I meet my readers from behind a veil, but this time the question was asked in a different way: why not gather what people accept from you into one book? And here I had no answer except to answer. Dr. Shihab al-Din al-Hawari