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Allah will exalt those of you who believe, and those who are given knowledge in high degrees.<br />
Say: Are those who know and those who do not know alike?<br />
Ask the followers of the Reminder if you do not know.<br />
Nay! These are clear <strong>com</strong>munications in the breast of those who are granted knowledge.<br />
Those of his servants only who are possessed of knowledge fear Allah.<br />
Besides, many Quranic texts indicate the great significance of knowledge and the virtues of the<br />
scholars who are the source of illumination and the root of conception on this earth.<br />
Knowledge in Hadith:<br />
The Prophet (s) said: “Seeking studies is a precept that is imposed upon every Muslim. God likes<br />
the seekers of knowledge.” “God prefers a single errand for seeking knowledge to the<br />
participation in one hundred battles.” “People of knowledge and jihad are the closest to the<br />
degree of prophecy.” “I advise the seekers of the worldly affairs to adhere to knowledge, and<br />
advise the seekers of the <strong>Here</strong>after to adhere to knowledge, and advise the seekers of both to<br />
adhere to knowledge.” “You should learn. Learning for God’s sake is a grace. Its study is a divine<br />
praise, and seeking for it is as same as struggling for God’s sake, and its pursue is worship, and its<br />
teaching is alms, and its publicity is offering to God.” “Seek knowledge even in China.[*]”<br />
The reference books of hadith include many other sayings that expose the merits and status of<br />
knowledge. Those sayings incite people to proceed in the scientific fields and dismiss the ghosts of<br />
ignorance out of their society since it is the source of retardation and disintegration.<br />
Imam Ali (a) says, “O people! You should realize that the perfection of the religion is seeking and<br />
applying knowledge. Seeking studies is more necessary than seeking livelihood. The Just, who will<br />
surely fulfill the promise, divides and secures the livelihood. Knowledge is stored at its people and<br />
you have been ordered of seeking it from its people. You should carry out.”[1] [*]China refers to<br />
the remotest place in which the harshest lethargies of traveling is expected.<br />
[1] Refer to Usulul‐Kafi: 1/31.<br />
As he speaks with Kumeil bin Ziad, his student, about the merits of knowledge, Imam Ali (a) says,<br />
“O Kumeil! Knowledge is preferable to wealth, for it guards you while you guard wealth, which is<br />
reduced by expenditure and knowledge betters the almsgiving. The made of wealth vanishes with<br />
the vanishing of wealth. O Kumeil! The cognition of knowledge is an adopted creed with which<br />
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