An example of this is: “The scholars are the inheritors of the Prophets.

An example of this is: “The scholars are the inheritors of the Prophets.”[^6] This knowledge, the knowledge of reality, the knowledge of the mortality of this world and the immortality of the next, is not achieved by reading alone. It is a light that is given by Allah to a person who has prepared himself to receive it. [^1]: Imām ‛Alī, Nahj al-Balāghah Fayd al-Islām, volume 2, page 1186, saying number 216. [^2]: Imām ‛Alī, Nahj al-Balāghah Fayd al-Islām, volume 2, page 1200, saying number 248.

[^3]: Shaykh ‛Alī Namāzī, Mustadrak Safīnat al-Bihār, volume 1, page 251. [^4]: Refer to 5:6. [^5]: Refer…