This book achieves two major triumphs that speak to the modern Muslim intellectual condition. First, it deeply inspires in the serious reader like very few books of human origin the love and desire to gain true knowledge. In the haze of unbounded access to information, it is especially important these days for people to be clear about what is beneficial knowledge as praised by Allah and His Messenger. This knowledge refers mainly to that which leads men and women to the pleasure of Allah and salvation in the Hereafter. As for the second achievement, The Heirs of the Prophets unabashedly strips away any pretension as to what measures as true scholarship within the realm of Islamic learning itself. Translated by Shaykh Zaid Shakir.
