Introduction to the author Praise be to God who is long and beautiful, and may God bless our master Muhammad, the Seal of the Messengers and Prophets, and upon his pious family and companions.
As for yet, the honor of the wanted person is the honor of his results, and his danger is greater by the abundance of his benefits, and according to his benefits he must be taken care of, and to the extent of taking care of him, the reaping of his fruit is the greatest of things, and the greatest of things is a danger and destiny, and the most general of it is a benefit and a supplement for what the religion and the world are righteous, and with which the goodness of the hereafter and the first is organized. Because with the righteousness of religion, worship is valid, and with the righteousness of the world happiness is achieved.
In this book I sought to refer to their etiquette, and to detail what is more beautiful than their conditions, in the fairest of the two matters, in terms of brevity and broadness in which I combine the investigation of the jurists and the refinement of the writers, so that it does not proclaim an understanding, nor does it strike an illusion, citing the Book of God - his name - as it requires, And from the Sunnahs of the Messenger of God - may God bless him - with what is equal to him, then he followed that with parables of the wise men, the etiquette of adultery, and the sayings of poets; Because hearts are resting to different arts and tired of the same art.
Ali bin Abi Talib, may God be pleased with him, said: The hearts get bored just as the bodies get, so guide them to the jokes of wisdom.
As if this method, he loves to move about what is required, from place to place, and Al-Ma'mun, may God Almighty have mercy on him, travels a lot in his home from place to place and seeks the saying of Abu Al-Ataheh: The soul is not suitable if it was arranged but moving from one state to another and made what is contained in this book five Sections: Chapter One: On the Virtue of the Mind and Defaming Passion.
The second chapter: In the literature of science.
Chapter Three: In the literature of religion.
Chapter IV: In world literature.
Chapter Five: In the literature of the soul.
Rather, I derive from God Almighty his good help, and I entrust him with preserving his talent, by his direction and his will, and he is my favor from Maen and Hafeez.