"40 Forty" or the Retreat of the Forty is a book about a life experience that Ahmed Al-Shugairi lived on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean, from which he came out with convictions and reflections on the human self and the relationship with others and with God Almighty. Between this, there is a wide space for the writer's representations of the memory of the past and the scene of the present, and his questions about how Contemporary man exit by himself from the dilemmas of life, and then works to purify, elevate and sublime it. Therefore, this book falls within the category of moral self-development and human personality development books.