Kalila and Dimna

In this book is the wisdom of India, the effort of the Persians, and the language of the Arabs. From this perspective, it is a true and precise symbol of a lofty and sublime meaning, which is this Eastern mental unity that arises from cooperation, solidarity, and the demonstration of generations and centuries among the nations of the East in their diversity, which the Islamic civilization achieved in the best and most complete way during the days when this civilization was alive, strong, and influential in the lives of nations and peoples, and which now wants us to restore to it its original strength and ancient beauty. This eternal, simple wisdom that the spirit of India poured out, and the effort of the Persians conveyed from them, and the taste of the Arabs formulated it in this wonderful Arabic form, and generations passed it on after that, so they transferred it from one environment to another, and from one people to another, until they made it part of the eternal human heritage. This wisdom in its Arabic form is a symbol of what we would like to see in the cooperation of the Eastern nations in spreading righteousness and piety, broadcasting goodness and kindness, and resisting sin and aggression.