Category: العلماء
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Ibn Taymiyah رحمه الله narrates: I was once afflicted with an illness, upon which the doctor said to me, “Your studying and indulgence in ‘ilm further aggravates the illness.” So I said to him, “I cannot bear that, and I will appeal to you using your own knowledge. Does not a person’s condition strengthen somewhat…
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Sufyān [Ibn Uyaynah] رحمه الله said: “If I practice upon the knowledge I have, I am the most knowledgeable of people; and if I do not practice upon the knowledge I possess, then there is no one on earth more ignorant than me.”[1] [1] Al-Khaṭīb Al-Baghdādī in Al-Jāmi‘ li-Akhlāq-Ar-Rāwī wa-Ādāb-As-Sāmi‘ قَالَ سُفْيَانُ: «إِنْ أَنَا…
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From the sayings of ‘Abdullāh ibn Al-Mubārak رحمه الله: ‘We acquired ‘ilm (religious knowledge) for the world, but it led us to leave the world aside.’[1] One who acquires true ‘ilm will find that it leads him away from overindulgence in the pleasures of this world, and a deeper yearning for the pleasures of the Hereafter.…
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It has been narrated from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit that Ṣa‘īd ibn Jubayr رحمه الله said to him: “That I propagate my knowledge is more beloved to me, than that I take it with me into my grave.”[1] [1] Siyar-A‘lām-An-Nubalā وَرُوِيَ عَنْ حَبِيْبِ بنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ: قَالَ لِي سَعِيْدُ بنُ جُبَيْرٍ: لأَنْ أَنْشُرَ عِلْمِي،…
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ولا خير في طول الحياة وعيشها***إذا أنت منها بالتقى لم ترحل ‘And there is no goodness in longevity and subsistence, if you do not leave it with taqwā.’ May Allāh تعالى grant us a long, comfortable life adorned with taqwā.
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Aḥmad ibn ‘Āṣim رحمه الله said, “Whoever has a better recognition of Allāh will be more fearing of Him, and the āyah of Allāh points towards this: ‘Only those of His slaves fear Allāh who are knowledgeable’[1], and so does the ḥadīth of the Prophet ﷺ: ‘I am the most aware of Allāh from amongst…
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روى أبو نعيم في الحلية بسنده إلى الفضيل بن عياض رحمه الله أنه قال: إِنَّ كَثِيرًا مِنْ عُلَمَائِكُمْ زِيُّهُ أَشْبَهُ بِزِيِّ كِسْرَى وَقَيْصَرٍ مِنْهُ لِمُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِنَّ مُحَمَّدًا لَمْ يَضَعْ لَبِنَةً عَلَى لَبِنَةٍ وَلَا قَصَبَةً عَلَى قَصَبَةٍ، لَكِنْ رُفِعَ لَهُ عَلَمٌ فَسَمَوْا إِلَيْهِ
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Imām Al-Qurṭubī and Imām Ibn Kathīr رحمهما الله both quote the statement of the great Mufassir (Scholar of Tafsīr), Aḍ-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Al-Muzāḥim رحمه الله, which is an eye-opener for all of us who learn the Qur’ān (or some portions of it) and then find that we have forgotten it. He says: “No-one learns the Qur’ān…
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One of the pious predecessors once said: “When I hear an example from the Qur’ān and do not understand it, I lament over myself, because Allāh says, ‘We cite these examples for people, but no one understands them except the knowledgeable ones[1].’[2] This is a reality check for those of us who think of themselves…
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Ibn Mas‘ūd رضي الله عنه would say: “True ‘ilm is not the narrating of excessive aḥādīth; rather, true ‘ilm is excessive fear of Allāh.” (Al-Bayhaqī and Aṭ-Ṭabarānī)[1] A person who is truly knowledgeable is the one who understands that Allāh is always watching him; hence he leads his life accordingly, keeping within the boundaries set…