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followers.
‐ Teachers should be concerned with the serviceable knowledges and avoid the useless and
disputable.
‐ Teachers should be concerned with the knowledges that take to the affairs of the Hereafter.
Shaqiq al‐Belkhi asked his student, Hatem al‐Asem about the questions he had learned. “How long
have you been with me?” asked the teacher. “They have been thirty three years,” answered the
student. “What have you learned all these years?” asked the teacher. “I have learnt eight
questions,” replied the student. The teacher expressed his sorrow and said, “I have finished my
years with you, but you have learnt eight things only!” “That is it,” expressed the student, “ I do
not want to lie.” “Well,” said the teacher, “Let me hear.” “They are the fondness of the good
deeds, shoving the caprices away, decency and god‐fearing, befriending the right, antagonizing
the devil, adhering to obedience, leaving the humiliation of seeking earnings to people, and
depending on God,” counted the student. The teacher expressed his great admiration and esteem
and said, “O Hatem! God may prosper you. As I looked in the Torah, the Bible, the Psalms, and the
Quran, I found these eight questions be the pivot of these Books.”
‐ Teachers should not engage themselves in positions higher than their abilities until they
accomplish their profession and grant the certificate of master teachers. As‐Shibli says, “He
whoever has the front before attaining suitability is meeting his shame.”
‐ Teachers should discipline the pupils with their accounts and deeds in addition to words and
admonition.
‐ Teachers should love their pupils and guard them against harm. Abu Abbas said, “The most
respectful ‐for me‐ is my student who leaves all people to come to me. I protect him to the degree
that I exert my efforts for preventing even the flies from reaching him.”
‐ Teachers should pardon and acquit the pupils who make mistakes. They should use intimation in
attracting their attentions to their faults. If they do not conceive, teachers then may state the
fault openly. Then comes the reproach. The Prophet (s) said, “Teach without chiding. Teachers are
preferable to the scolders.” He also said, “Use leniency to those whom you teach and those who
learn you.”
‐ Teachers should welcome the attendant pupils and ask about the absent.
‐ Teachers should not answer questions they ignore. They may confess they do not know. Ibn
Masud said, “O people! He, whoever is familiar with something, should say it, otherwise he should
say: Allah is the most knowledgeable. This saying is a part of knowledge.”
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