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[2] Refer to Usulul‐Kafi: 1/36.
[3] Refer to Tethkiretus‐sami: 10.
should never be exerted for a worldly affair, which leads to nonsense. Such efforts must achieve a
great triumph the resources of which should spread over the society as a whole. Nothing is more
beneficial and widespread than working for God’s sake and satisfaction. The sect of Ikhwanus‐safa
has dedicated the goals of learning to the work for God’s sake. They said, “O brethren! You should
realize that every item of knowledge or art that does not lead to the Hereafter will be a loss and
an argument on the Resurrection Day.”[1] Al‐Ghezali also dedicated the processes of learning to
this aspect. He said, “O youngster! Many are the nights that you have passed with seeking
knowledge and scanning books, and you have abstained from sleep. I do not know your
intendment. If it has been obtaining the concerns of this world, collecting its wreckages, and
holding its positions and ostentation before the others, then woe is you! If your intendment is
enlivening the Prophet’s practices, refining your ethics, and violating the bad‐tending soul, then
you will get many happy returns!”[2]
The Prophet (s) repudiated all of the material intendments that are pursued by those faithless
ones. He said, “He should find himself a place in the hell‐fire that whoever seeks knowledge for
disputing with the ill‐minded and showing off before the scholars and attracting people’s
attentions.” On this bright rule, Islam has encouraged people, by all means, on committing to
knowledge. An Islamic educationist says, “The seekers of knowledge ought to dedicate their acts
to God and the Hereafter. They ought to intend to eradicate ignorance of people, as well as
themselves, enliven the religion, and perpetuate Islam. Knowledge is surely the only means of
perpetuating Islam.”
The incentive of seeking studies should be spreading knowledge and God‐fearing among people.
Islam has urged groups on having religious erudition and rulings, and disposing them among
people. God says:
Why should not then a company from every party from among them go forth that they may apply
themselves to obtain understanding in religion?
The seeking of knowledge in Islam is significant only when it aims for disciplining people and
raising their levels to take them away from the total sorts of irregularity and deviation. Such
seekers of knowledge are definitely the prophets’ heirs and the masters of the pious and the
virtuous.
In any event, the propagation of the Islamic doctrine, the introduction of the conventional rulings
to people, habituating them to the noble morals, and taking them away from ill manners and vile
moralities; these are the most important incentives of the religious teaching.
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