Ustadh Abdus Shakur Brooks explains a passage from Al-Muqaddimah Al-Waghlisiyah (a rudimentary Mālikī fiqh text) about the author’s objective behind writing this book. He is currently translating this text which is scheduled to release in January 2014.
For more information about the text and translation see: http://www.al-masalik.com/book-review/