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worship, and Allah would certainly open to you sources of happiness to which you are a
stranger.
You should know that by now I am fifty-three years old. Forty years of my life have been
spent in the various peaceful haunts of famous scholars and learned men under whom I
studied until I was raised to such a rank that people began to know me and understand
the change in my ideas. For twenty years I lived in the rein of your royal father who did
all that he could to make both Isfahan and Baghdad the most flourishing cities of the
world. On several occasions I served, on behalf of your father, as ambassador to the
court of the Abbasid Caliph Muktadar Billah and did all that was possible to remove
certain misconceptions between the Seljuk empire and the Abbasid Caliphate.
I authored seventy books. For several years I lived and preached in Mecca and
Jerusalem, and when I visited the tomb of Prophet Abraham, peace be upon him, in
Jerusalem and offered Al Fatihah, at this mazar, I solemnly pledged that:
worship, and Allah would certainly open to you sources of happiness to which you are a
stranger.
You should know that by now I am fifty-three years old. Forty years of my life have been
spent in the various peaceful haunts of famous scholars and learned men under whom I
studied until I was raised to such a rank that people began to know me and understand
the change in my ideas. For twenty years I lived in the rein of your royal father who did
all that he could to make both Isfahan and Baghdad the most flourishing cities of the
world. On several occasions I served, on behalf of your father, as ambassador to the
court of the Abbasid Caliph Muktadar Billah and did all that was possible to remove
certain misconceptions between the Seljuk empire and the Abbasid Caliphate.
I authored seventy books. For several years I lived and preached in Mecca and
Jerusalem, and when I visited the tomb of Prophet Abraham, peace be upon him, in
Jerusalem and offered Al Fatihah, at this mazar, I solemnly pledged that: