Tag: ilm
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم I briefly met one of my former students today, and he began by asking about my car. It’s funny how the student-teacher relationship evolves into mutual friendship outside the class setting, yet amazing in a way too. It’s got quite a lot to do with the way the teacher treats his/her…
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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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Imām Al-Ghazāli رحمه الله said, “From among the duties of the laymen are that they believe [in Allāh] and submit [to His Will], and engage in their worship and everyday matters, leaving matters of [Islamic knowledge] to the ‘Ulamā, because that layman who commits adultery and robbery, is better than the one who comments on…