Publisher's Introduction

This book is the first fruit of the production of (The Company of the International Al-Risalah Foundation), a company established upon the pillars of (The Al-Risalah Foundation for Printing, Publishing, and Distribution), which was founded by our revered father, Mr. Radwan Ibrahim Da'bul, forty years ago.

The pillars of the Foundation to which we refer are three:

The first pillar: the books and works that the parent Foundation has previously published, which are numerous publications from which a great multitude of Muslims have benefited. The new company is resolved to renew those publications in order to benefit from the development that has attended the fundamentals of the printing industry, in a manner that may make benefiting from these books easier for students of knowledge.

The second pillar: the methodology that the parent Foundation has followed since its establishment in serving important heritage books, through the verification and scientific research centers affiliated with it. This is an extremely difficult methodology, beset by many material hardships, but we hope that God will grant us sincerity of intention, so that the hardships we shall endure may be placed in the balance of our deeds on the Day of Reckoning.

The third pillar: the spirit of struggle, seriousness, and perseverance possessed by our founding father, for he spares no effort or wealth in the service of publishing books. Despite the immense hardships that confronted him throughout the years of his life, he never ceased for a moment to serve his mission, which he entrusted to his Foundation: The Al-Risalah Foundation. And among the wondrous aspects of this matter—