 heard you wanting me as if you wanted someone else and as if you were advising someone without advising me. you say i am amazed at someone who left his notebooks of knowledge scattered and dispersed and his study notebooks not collected or organized how he exposes them to criminality and how he does not prevent them from being scattered. and if the notebooks belt breaks and its straps come undone and its bindings are torn and there is no protection or shield between them their pages will be scattered and if their pages are scattered their collection becomes difficult and their organization becomes difficult and their composition becomes impossible and most of them may be lost. the two covers are more comprehensive and joining the skins to them is safer and binding them is better for them. shapes should be organized and similarities should be composed for composition increases the beauty of the good parts and the coming together
سمعتك وأنت تريدني وكأنك تريد غيري، وكأنك تشير على من غير أن تنصني. وتقول إني لأعجب ممن ترك دفاتر علمه متفرقة مبثوثة، وكراريس درسه غير مجموعة ولا منظومة، كيف يعرضها للتجرم، وكيف لا يمنعها من التفرق. وعلى أن الدفاتر إذا انقطعت حزامته، وانحل شداده، وتخرمت ربطه، ولم يكن دونه وقاية ولا جنة، تفرق ورقه؛ وإذا تفرق ورقه اشتد جمعه، وعسر نظمه، وامتنع تأليفه، وربما ضاع أكثره. والدفتان أجمع وضم الجلود إليها أصون، والحزم لها أصلح. وينبغي للأشكال أن تنظم وللأشباه أن تؤلف؛ فإن التأليف يزيد الأجزاء الحسنة حسنا، والاجتماع