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God grants obedience in this life and remembrance after death. Knowledge is ruling while wealth<br />
is ruled. O Kumeil! The collectors of wealth are dead in their lives, and the scholars are as same as<br />
time in its persistence. Their essences are missed, but their exemplars are existing in hearts.”[1]<br />
Imam as‐Sadiq (a) said, “Seek knowledge and attach tolerance and veneration to it.”[2]<br />
The Prophet’s progeny called and urged on seeking knowledge, educating, crystallizing the<br />
concepts, and adorning with awareness and ethics. This is quite evident through the numerous<br />
uninterrupted reports.<br />
TRANSMITTED SAYINGS<br />
Masters of the Islamic conceptual movements could not hide the encouragement on seeking<br />
knowledge.<br />
Abul‐Aswed ad‐Dueli said: Nothing is more powerful than knowledge. Kings are people’s rulers,<br />
and knowledge is the kings’ ruler.[3]<br />
Mussab bin az‐Zubeir instructed his son: Seek knowledge. It is the beatitude of those lacking<br />
beatitude and the wealth of those lacking wealth.<br />
Al‐Ghezali said: Without scholars, people would have been like animals. Knowledge transfers<br />
them from savagery to humanity.<br />
Al‐Jahiz said: I do not seek knowledge for achieving a definite purpose and attaining a certain<br />
purport. I seek it for getting a thing the ignorance of which is unallowable, and the sane should<br />
never disdain.<br />
Ibn abdil‐Berr said: Seek knowledge, because it distinguishes the kings and enlivens the publics.<br />
THE GRAND GOALS<br />
The purpose beyond seeking knowledge, from the Islamic viewpoint, is not attaining narrow<br />
material objectives or gaining personal earnings that are unrelated to the factuality of spirits and<br />
disciplining. Actually, the goals, we will refer to some hereinafter, are nobler and more elevated.<br />
Activities of the seekers of knowledge should be purely intended for God’s sake, away from any<br />
material benefit. The oppressive efforts‐‐ including the turmoil and the hard striving of continuous<br />
nights‐ that the students encounter for receiving knowledge<br />
[1] Refer to Nahjul Balagha: revision of Mohammed Abduh: 3/186‐7.<br />
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