EPILOGUE

EPILOGUE

Praise and glory be to our Lord, who has brought us to the end of this writing called “The Classical Family”!

My heartfelt wish is this: I want my people to read every word of mine, to grasp it and to understand it. I want these words to be a cure for my people’s pain. I want to say the things mankind needs most.

In 2021 I wrote two novellas, called “Halqa” and “Jangchi.” God made those works very dear to my people. But the evil eye struck: they banned the printing of these works of fiction, branding them religious. An organization called the Religious Committee has not given permission to print them for over a year now.

Of course, life does not end with one work. As long as we are alive, we must write. I have other writings too; I am not speaking of them yet, so that the evil eye may not touch them and the work may reach its end; as soon as they too are finished, I will present them to my esteemed readers, God willing.

I ask my Lord for strength and inspiration to write one major work of fiction every year. And I also dream of publishing every year a commentary on one great work of Hazrat Navoi. Something must remain of a person; I wish these would remain of me.

Dear reader!

I worked hard on this short book. Its first lines were put on paper on Monday, April 27, 2026. Today, September 3, 2026 — on the evening when Thursday turns into Friday — the last lines of the book are being written.

I hope that our dear brother, a devoted son of the nation, the skilled orator and speaker Abdukarim Mirzayev, will read this book too and bring it to our people. God willing, after the editing and proofreading I will send it to him.

My Lord!

Make the person who reads this book happy. Make the one who loves it and reads it again and again blessed in both worlds! Through the benefit of these writings may families be peaceful and prosperous, may their fortune be bright, and may blessing rain down upon them!

Cover the book’s mistakes and make it a source of good for my people and for all mankind!

Grant success in their aims to all who contributed to printing the book and who served in bringing it into people’s hands!

Take as Your friend everyone who, having read the book, makes ablution, opens his hands in dua and prays for the author, and reward him with Paradise for this deed!

Against those who approach the book with foul intent, You alone suffice!

O Most Merciful! O Most Generous!

Akrom Malik, Tashkent