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Imam alRida May God have mercy on him who revives our cause by learning from our teachings and teaching them to others for if people only knew the beauty of our words they would undoubtedly follow us. Englishspeaking Muslims have a dire need to connect with the sources of Islamic knowledge the Quran and the traditions of Prophet Muhammad and the Imams who succeeded him. Effective translation is one step toward this goal. But without methodical wellreasoned commentary an individual text cannot be coherently placed in the larger context of Islamic thought and understood as it was intended.