Therefore, none of them took part with me in authoring any of the works mentioned above, and Abū Ghuddah knows this full well. Even so, he assigns to all of them every line he refutes. Thus, in the first book, p. 5, he says: “They published it in Damascus in 1390 AH and, falsely and slanderously, slipped into it some remarks about me…” The truth is that the one who printed it was Ustadh Maḥmūd Istanbūlī, and should the alleged interpolation be confirmed, we have absolutely nothing to do with it—especially since my writing style is markedly different from his, as everyone is aware