Canımın Bildiği Şey: Akkolu İshak'ın İtirafı

Since Torah, the commandments, and wisdom are the true acquisition for the human soul in life and in death, because it completes the form of man and brings him to the other perfections in this life and also after it, and because I am rebuking my own precious soul, I certainly saw in it, in those things I mentioned, a great deficiency and corruption, for I forgot almost everything I learned in my childhood and youth. The words of Torah, the commandments, and also the wisdoms departed from me. I said in my heart, "How shall I answer for the day of visitation, and how shall I see the face of my Master?" And because the soul is a spiritual essence, and it is suspended in this body, and this will be the complete composition, I endeavored to reveal its secrets and mysteries. And I ask of you, the reader of this book of mine, that if you find in it any error or slip, judge me favorably, for I did not do it intentionally, but rather by the trial of the meager intellect that is in me. My entire intention is only to add knowledge and to explain their holy words. May God in His mercies save me from errors, Amen.