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30 my friends who have helped me in my task of proving the existence of relationships between languages. It gives me great pleasure to acknowledge that, in order to prove the existence of relationships between languages, my sincere friends have exerted themselves with such zeal, which will surely be remembered in this world as long as this world remains inhabited. These men of God bravely dedicated their important time to me and, by undertaking great toil and hardwork day and night, they accomplished this momentous task. I believe that they will be tremendously rewarded by God Almighty because they partook in such a war in which, very soon, the trumpets of the victory of Islam will be sounded. Thus, each and every one of them deserves to be decorated with a heavenly medal. I cannot describe how, in every academic session, they would venture hundreds of miles within [their research] in order to discover the common ties of words [between languages], and how they would return with success, and present the gift of a cognate word. This process continued until the languages of the world were collected before us. I will never forget that in this momentous undertaking, my loyal friends provided such help that I do not have the words with which I can express its measure. I pray that may God Almighty accept their efforts, and may He