arabic → English transcript

Because you feel that he is your father, and because I feel that you are my large family, I wanted to share with you my memories of my father — a booklet that holds between its covers dialogues, incidents, and conversations that took place between him and me in private, most of which are being published for the first time; through it you will get to know a new, intimate side of His Eminence’s personality, a side you do not see in his sermons or public appearances,

I disclose in it many of the secrets I have kept for years, and a photograph that is dearest to my heart.