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• Chapter Two:

This covers the facts, events and developments affecting the Palestinian question from the time of his return to the Arab homeland, fleeing imprisonment in Paris and heading to Cairo in 1946.

• Chapter Three:

This contains accounts of the Palestinian people’s struggle and jihad from the Mufti’s return to Egypt until the catastrophe of 1948.

The memoirs ended with the last battle in the city of Safad and its fall into enemy hands on 10 May 1948.

The Mufti began publishing his memoirs in the magazine (Palestine), a periodical supervised by the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine and serving as its official organ. They appeared in monthly installments, the first of which was published on 1 May 1967, corresponding to Muharram 1387, in issue 74. He opened his memoirs with the episode of his forced departure from Palestine, saying: “Departure from Palestine was not part of my plan, nor had leaving Jerusalem or any of the other towns and regions of the homeland crossed my mind, even though all the Arab countries are a homeland for the Arabs. I believed that fighting the enemies within the country was more appropriate and more effective, and that a mujahid must not abandon his homeland or move from the field of his struggle unless compelled and forced to do so for a reason that serves the cause for which he wages jihad.”

A total of 75 installments were published, ending in issue 171–172, dated June and July 1975 (two issues in one).

He would, may God have mercy on him, write out his memoirs and prepare them for publication in his own hand, then send them to be typed on a typewriter. He would then proofread them again and mark them with his signature before they were sent for publication. It was his habit to transfer onto paper what he had previously recorded briefly at the time in a small notebook that he carried in his pocket, in which he carefully noted his appointments and the events or matters relating to his national duties. He prepared his memoirs in this way, taking into account the succession of installments published in the aforementioned magazine, while keeping additional installments ready and prepared for publication for occasions when he was unable to send them to the press.

The late Hajj Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, may God forgive him, passed into the presence of his Lord on 4 July 1974 CE. The magazine (Palestine) had issued number 160 on 1 July 1974 CE, corresponding to Jumada al-Akhira 1394 AH, containing installment 65 of his memoirs.