However, time overtook me—for only a few days remain until ʿEid al-Fiṭr⦗1⦘—and so I had to limit this brief work to the single issue already mentioned. I beseech Allah, the Exalted, to grant me soon the ability to prepare the more comprehensive treatise, publish it for the people, and that they may receive our writings with gracious acceptance. Perhaps, then, I will earn from them a righteous supplication uttered in private, one that will benefit me, Allah willing, on the Day when neither wealth nor children will avail, save him who comes to Allah with a sound heart.⦗2⦘
Know, dear reader, that those authors devoted two large pages—pages 14 and 15 of their booklet “al-Iṣābah”—to the question of holding the ʿEid prayer in the open prayer-ground, only to contradict themselves in a most shameful manner. From those pages the reader will clearly see, “That is the limit…"