All praise and grace are due to God that He has granted us success in writing these few pages, from which our intention is for you to act upon what you have learned, so that God may teach you what you do not know. Thus you may learn the reality of the loving spiritual contraction (inqibāḍ ʿishqī) from your actions in service to the principles of our Lām in the sensory realm. And you will not master this until you understand the infallibility (ʿiṣma) in the Lām: how it manifested in the Alif of the Lām and the Lām of the Alif and the relationship between them, so that perhaps you may inhale the fragrance of the Prophet's lineage (ʿitra) and learn the meaning of The Family (al-'āl), not as it is spoken of by those who divide the people of Islam into sects. Rather, it is an understanding wherein you first unite with yourself and reconcile with your own being, and you learn how to address and listen to your heart...