(حـ) 3 – أما غاية الرواية ، فيجب أنْ تكون التحرّي عن الحياة وتصويرها بأمانة وإخلاص كما تبدو لنا ، وجمع كمية كبيرة من الملاحظات والمستندات الإنسانية

3 – ʔammā ġāyaẗ al-riwāyaẗ, fa-yaǧib^u ʔan takūn^a ’l-taḥarriy^a ʕan il-ḥayāẗ wa-taṣwīri-hā bi-ʔamānaẗ wa-ʔiḫlāṣ ka-mā tabdū la-nā, wa-ǧamʕ kamiyyaẗ kabīraẗ min al-mulāḥaẓāt wa’l-mustanadāt al-ʔinsāniyyaẗ

[p. viii] 3 | The purpose of a narration¹ has to be a thorough investigation into life and depicting/portraying it in a faithful and reliable manner, [exactly] as it appears to us [i.e., as we see it]; [it also has to be] the collection of observations and evidence² about the human being

AR: ġāyaẗ, riwāyaẗ, taḥarrⁱⁿḥayāẗ, taṣwīr, ʔamānaẗ, ʔiḫlāṣ, mulāḥaẓaẗ, mustanadāt, ʔinsānī (ʔinsāniyyat, ʔinsān)
EN: thorough investigation into life, depicting/portraying, faithful, reliable, as it appears to us, observation, evidence