your deeds and forgive you your sins. Whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has indeed achieved a magnificent triumph. (1)

To proceed: At the end of 1377 AH I published a treatise entitled
“Warning the Worshipper against Turning Graves into Mosques.”

My personal copy of that edition remained at hand all this time; whenever I came across an additional benefit relevant to its topic, I noted it in the margins in hopes of incorporating it when the work was reprinted in an expanded and revised form. Thus a considerable number of important additions accumulated.

When a certain publisher asked me to submit the book so that he could issue a new printing, I discovered that my copy was missing. After abandoning hope of finding it, I sent him another copy that I had borrowed from one of my friends, to be reproduced as it stood, following the maxim, “If one cannot attain all of something, one should not leave all of it.”

Meanwhile, as that was underway,