From the Author:
'Know, noble reader of our book, that my story is not an imaginary one, neither is it a stage-play; but it is a true story and a past incident which happened to me in my childhood, when I was seven years old, and my family were dwelling at Kerbala (which is a city in Iraq), when I fell down on my head from a high place in our house, so that I took off my material body and got out of it; I saw ghosts and spirits, talked with them as do I talk with living persons and I saw many things with which I wasn't familiar. So I was astonished of my condition.'