وإنّا لموقنون أنّ هذه الطريقة الجديدة ستصادف بادئ بدء اعتراضاً شديداً من بعض كتّابنا الذين يتوهّمون أنّهم أساتذة مرشدون جادت بهم العناية الإلهية لهداية الأمّة وحملها على اتّباع آرائهم ،
We are convinced that this new way of writing will initially meet strong resistance among some of our writers, those who consider themselves as leading masters whom Divine Providence endowed with guiding the nation and turning it into followers of their opinions.
In contrast, we oppose this idea, and we take on own responsibility for our ideas.1
For a writer has absolutely no right to make such a claim – none of us is immune against making mistakes.
We make up our minds according to our temperaments, preferences and personal tastes – and people’s temperaments are numerous, their preferences opposed to each other, and their tastes may be different and contradictory.
Today we may appreciate a point of view, love it and defend it, while tomorrow we may realize that we’ve made a mistake and our appreciation was too hurried; so we reject it and fight against it.
AR: al-yawm, ġadan, ittaḍaḥa (wuḍūḥ), ḫaṭaʔ EN: …
وكيف يمكن للكاتب أنْ يثبت أنْ آراءه مفيدة للهيئة الاجتماعية غير مضرّة بها ؟
فإنّ أعاظم الرجال الذين أرادوا أنْ يضعوا للبشرية شرائع وأنظمة تؤدّي بها إلى السعادة الدائمة قد أخطئوا وأساءوا إلى المجتمع البشري من حيث أرادوا إسعاده .
Those “giant men” who wanted to lay down for humanity rules and laws that would lead them into eternal happiness have actually failed; they did more harm to human society than making it happier.