In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.—Thanks be to God,
supreme in goodness, & kindness, & grace, & who is worthy of all honor,
who created all things for his service, even man’s power of action & of
speech.
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From Omar to Sheikh Hunter.
You asked me to write my life. I am not able to do this
because I have much forgotten my own, as well as the Arabic language.
Neither can I write very grammatically or according to the true idiom.
And so, my brother, I beg you, in God’s name, not to chide me, for I am
a man of weak eyes, & of a weak body.