The book's preface

Bism Allāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm

Wa-baʻd fa-hādhā kitāb yabḥath fī madhāhib al-Aʻrāb fī al-jinn wa-ʻammā qālahu ʻanhum falāsifat al-Islām wa-hiya masʼalah mā-zālat wa-lam tazal mawḍūʻ al-bāḥithīn fī kull millah wa-niḥlah . Wa-qad raʼaytu an ufrida lahā baḥthan khāṣṣan tatawaffar fīhi al-shurūṭ al-lāzimah lahu fa-tafarraghtu muddah min al-zaman amkananī bihā al-qiyām bi-al-tanqīb fī al-asfār al-nāfiʻah qadīmahā wa-ḥadīthahā ḥattá idhā tamma lī al-istiqrāʼ wa-al-istiqṣāʼ jamaʻtu shatātahā min ʻasharāt min al-muṣannafāt fa-jāʼat maqālah waʻat maʼāthir ʻamman yuhtadá bi-hadyihim min rijāl al-ʻilm wa-al-lughah wa-al-adab . Wa-qad nushirat fī al-ʻadad 1 wa 2 min al-mujallad al-khāmis min majallat ( al-Muqtabas ) allatī taṣdur fī Dimashq thumma raghibnā fī nashrihā kitāban ʻalá ḥidah li-yaʻumma tanāwulahā dhawī al-faḍl wa-al-nabl wa-Allāh al-hādī ilá sawāʼ al-sabīl

Dimashq , 3 Rajab al-Fard ʻām 1328 Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī