Woe to you! Seek knowledge

Sufyan ath-Thawri  (Rahimahullaah) said to an Arab: 

 

“Woe to you! Seek knowledge. I fear that the knowledge will leave you & come to another people so that you are humiliated. Knowledge is an honour in this life & the next.”

(Jami’ Bayan-il-’ilm 1/118)