Arba'in — Page 143
Number Four 143 Announcement I had expressed my plan to publish forty separate flyers of this trea- tise,. I had imagined that I would only print single-paged flyers, which could sometimes be one and a half pages long or, at the most, two pages long, and occasionally I would write three to four-page flyers. But it so happened that I ended up writing these flyers differently. [] Numbers 2, 3 and 4 turned out as small booklets. As a result, the book became almost seventy pages long; thus, my initial intent has been realized. I have, therefore, ended these treatises at Number 4 and no more will be published in the future. Just as our God, the Lord of Honour and Glory, had ini- tially prescribed fifty daily Prayers but later reduced the number and established five a substitute to fifty, in the same way, following the tradition of our Benevolent Lord, I declare the number four a substitute for forty by way of reducing the burden on the readers and end this writing with a few words of advice to my Community.