Al-Allaamah Siddeeq Hasan Khan (rahimahullaah) said:
The aim behind the religious sciences is not for the purpose of earning (wealth); rather it is for (the purpose of) acquainting oneself with the realities of the (sharia) and to rectify one’s behaviour (towards his Lord, the people and within himself). The one who learns knowledge (of the religion) for the purpose of trade cannot be a scholar; rather he only resembles the scholars. Indeed the scholars unveiled what the drive behind this was and they spoke about it when the building of schools reached them at Baghdaad. So they established gatherings of knowledge and said: “The possessors of lofty ambitions and the pure souls used to preoccupy themselves with it (i.e. knowledge) –those whose intent behind (seeking) knowledge was due to its nobility and the perfection (that is reached by way of it), so they came to the scholars to benefit from them and their knowledge. However, when (monetary gain) is placed on it, the vilest people and the lazy ones will approach it and thus leading to its disappearance. So at this juncture the (Islamic) sciences of wisdom (found in the Qur’aan, the Sunnah and the understanding of the Salaf) will be abandoned even though they are self-evident in their nobility.
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[أبجد العلوم pages 77-78… Vol: 1]
Al-Hasan (rahimahullaah) narrated that a Faqeeh repeated a lesson in his house so many times, so an old woman of his household said to him: “By Allaah I have memorized it.” He said (to her): “Repeat it”; so she repeated it. After some days had passed, he said (to her): ”O old woman! Repeat that lesson”; so she said: “I have not memorized it.” He said: ”I repeat (or revise the lesson) lest what has afflicted you afflicts me.”
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[Quoted by Shaikh Raslaan in Fadlul Ilm page: 398.
Original Source Al-Hath-thu Alaa Hifz Al-Ilm of Ibn Jawzi. page. 35]
Al-Faqee Wal-Mutafaqqih 2/100)
Ash-Shabiy (rahimahullaah) said: If a man were to travel from Sham to the furthest part of Yemen in order to listen to a wise statement, I do not consider his journey to be a waste.
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[Jaami Bayaan Al-Ilm 1/189]
Al-Hasan Al-Basri (rahimahullaah) stated about the saying of Allaah [وَمِنۡهُم مَّن يَقُولُ رَبَّنَآ ءَاتِنَا فِى ٱلدُّنۡيَا حَسَنَةً۬ وَفِى ٱلۡأَخِرَةِ حَسَنَةً۬ – And of them there are some who say: “Our Lord! Give us in this world that which is good and in the Hereafter that which is good (2:201]
Good in the worldly life is Knowledge and worship.
Good in the afterlife is Paradise.
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Jaami Bayaan Al-Ilm 1/112
Uqbah Bin Aamir (radiyallaahu-anhu) said: ”Learn before those who depend on guessing”; meaning: those who base their judgement on presumption. (1) Imaam Nawawi (rahimahullaah) stated in Al-Majmoo (1/42): The meaning of it (i.e. this statement of Uqbah) is: ”Learn knowledge from its people before they depart -those competent god fearing people-and there appear a people (who) speak in (affairs) of knowledge by way of their own (ideas) and presumptions, which has no sharia basis.” (2)
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[1] Saheeh Al-Bukhaari. Vol 8. Chapter: Learning about the laws of Inheritance
[2] Slightly paraphrased. For further details, see: Fadlul Ilm of Shaikh Raslaan. page:206
