Do You Find People Overcrowding To View The Beauty of The Sky?!

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Imam Ibn Qudamah, may Allah have mercy upon him, stated:

There is no envy among (upright) scholars since their goal is to gain knowledge and awareness of Allah, Glorified be He and free from all imperfections, which is a vast matter. Their goal is to attain a high status in the Sight of Allah, and that which Allah has kept in the afterlife is unlimited because Allah’s loftiest blessing is the pleasure of meeting Him, which cannot be prevented or restricted, nor can some competitors make it restricted for others; instead harmony is enhanced as the competitors increase; but if wealth and status become the scholars’ goal, they will envy one another.

The difference between knowledge and wealth is that wealth does not remain in the hands of a single person, whereas knowledge settles in the heart of a scholar and the heart of the one taught by the scholar while remaining in the heart of the scholar. As a result, whoever contemplates the Greatness of Allah and His Mighty Dominion, it will become the greatest delight for him than any other blessing, because he cannot be prevented or restricted from doing so. He will not be envious of anyone because even if others were aware of what he is aware of, it would not diminish his pleasure in the affair. You do not find people overcrowding to view the beauty of the sky because it is vast and unrestricted.

An Excerpt from ‘Mukhtasar Minhaj Al Qasidin. page 199