To proceed:

Among the most pressing obligations upon scholars and seekers of knowledge is to give due care to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger—may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace—by studying, memorising, deriving rulings, analysing, teaching, and applying them, thereby uniting knowledge with practice. They are the custodians of all this, for the Muslim community has placed its trust in them and entrusted them with its religion. Before all else and after all else, they remain answerable before Allah the Exalted for this trust: the trust of acquiring knowledge, acting upon it, conveying it, preserving it, and calling others to it, so that through them people may find a model and example leading to all that is good.

Part of that trust is the priceless scholarly legacy left by the Imams of Islam—our noble predecessors—across every field of learning. A large portion of this heritage still lies in manuscript form, stored away in the recesses of libraries around the world, despite the Muslims’ urgent need for it. I believe that one of the foremost duties of the student of knowledge in our time is to tend to these treasures and serve them by presenting them to the public, critically edited, authentic, and fresh, so that they may serve as a beacon for every Muslim amid the invasive cultures and destructive ideas propagated today by the enemies of Islam.

Among the manuscripts most deserving of such attention—and among the finest and most beneficial for Muslims today—are the works of Shaykh al-Islam Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy on him. Although, by Allah’s grace, many of these works have received some attention from editors and students of knowledge, the greater part still awaits proper care, publication, preparation, critical editing, and study.

Prompted by this duty, I have selected one of the Shaykh’s books, namely: