It
is reported that Abû Al-Dardâ` –(Allâh be pleased with him) used to say:
“Learn knowledge before it is taken way, &
it is taken away by its people (scholars) being taken away. The scholar &
the student are partners in good & there is NO good in any other people.
The richest of men is the knowledgeable man whose knowledge is needed: he
benefits those who need him & if done without, he benefits himself with the
knowledge Allâh ‘azza wa jalla has placed with him.
So how is it I see your
scholars dying yet the ignorant amongst you not learning? I fear that the
predecessor will depart & the successor will not learn. If the scholar
studies, he only increases in knowledge, & he does not take anything away
from knowledge. And if the ignorant studies, he will find knowledge firm &
established. So how is it that I see you full up with food, yet starved of
knowledge?”
Ibn ‘Abd Al-Barr, Jâmi’ Bayân Al-‘Ilm
wa Fadlihi Vol. 2 pg 233.
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