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IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah Whose guidance broke the darkness of
ignorance; through His divine decree, miraculous events
are created, and unto Him all shall return. With His
decree, day and night became different. He creates things
from nothing. He creates all beings and assigns them their
allowances. He is the perfect original designer of every being;
He neither treats things nor abandons them. Attributes are not
sufficient to describe Him, and injustice is incompatible with
Him. Words cannot adequately describe Him, and events
cannot happen to Him. May Allah grant salvation to the Master
of Messengers and the Seal of all Prophets to whom the Book
(the Qur'an) was revealed in the unequivocal Arabic language.
May Allah also grant His last Prophet, who has been recorded
in the ancient Psalms, and His pure and righteous family
salvation. May peace be upon him until the day of judgment.
For those who are inspired to delve into the science of
philosophers in order to look for their secrets and search for
their miracles, I would like to say that my motive in writing this
book, which I titled The Goal of The Wise, is what I came across
when I wrote the previous book titled The Rank of The Wise. I
started writing this book in the year 343 when I finished editing
The Rank of The Wise, and I completed it in 348. I was