When doing translation in the first time I could spend a month on one paragraph of mystery of purity (thaharah). But once I understood that one paragraph, the rest of the chapter began to explain themselves. So I learn very quickly to halt and learn, to stay where I am and try to understand what’s happening in the sentences. So I stay on that, I didn’t jumped over. I didn’t do “dot…dot…dot…” in part where I didn’t fill in. I waited and I waited and I waited until I understand what was being given.

- Shu'ayb Eric Winkel on how he translated Futuhat al-Makkiyya