Praise be to God, in whose hands is weakness and strength, and the creation of sickness and medicine, who created bodies for atonement of sin, who brings recompense and averts disaster, who knows what is clear and what is hidden, and what is in all hearts. Peace be upon his noble Prophet, his great healer, Muhammad, especially God's beloved, but universal in his mission of call, root of remedy, pole of the circle of his wisdom, source of cure, free of whim in the eloquence of his word, as stated in Sura ‘al-Najma idha hawa’. Peace be upon his pure family and on his venerable companions, the stars of guidance and the base of piety.

When the chain of possibilities was linked to the presence of God, the Blessed and Almighty, thus order in every kingdom was organized by the presence of an amir [ruler] or khalifa as the base of power and security against the mishaps of time; thus God granted such an amir to the land of Tunis and Africa; a man from the select, shadow of justice who created for the multitudes kind deeds which he brought forth into being. He prevented by his policy the ruses of those of injustice and tyranny; he cleared the roads of fear and enmity with the awe of his policies, until men and boys, and women and girls, traveled upon them. How often he hit those who hit him with the accurate arrow of his bow.