Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Purpose Of Seeking Knowledge (Hadith Commentary from Zad alTalibin)
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
Salatu was Salam ala so either more saline wider earlier he was
speaking about Rocco seldom at the Sleeman Kathira on Isla yo MIDI in
America
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said this hadith which is
number 224 of the provisions for the seekers is probably been
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Whoever seeks sacred knowledge to vibrant scholars compete with
scholars argue with scholars argue with fools or capture public
notice. Allah will enter him into the Hellfire Hadith related both
by materiality and even imagine.
This is obviously one of the calamities of knowledge as such,
meaning a person is doing a very sacred act, which is to go and
study sacred knowledge.
The intention is what's at stake here. The Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam spoke about the importance of intention. Most of
the authors or many of the authors like you might know Iman, Bahati,
they will bring the near Hadith verse in the Malama Lavinia
because if Laos is so important, especially if it's not a mundane
task that you're doing, you're doing such a secret tasks such a
noble task, noble task of studying some knowledge. And when we say
studying knowledge, it doesn't have to be a formal study of
knowledge where you give up everything and you go and study,
or that you're attending a particular type of class on a
regular basis. This could also be when you're sitting in a lecture,
for example, and you're sitting in a lecture and you have some
political problem with somebody else. And the person who's
speaking right now, this, the one who's giving the speech, or the
scholar who you're listening to, he comes with a very relevant
point that seems to support what you are trying to prove against
somebody else. So right, then you start thinking, Oh, I can use
this, I can use this. Right? You don't want to study for that
knowledge. The intention should be that we study this knowledge for
ourselves first.
You also don't want to study knowledge. I mean, this happens
with probably people who give talks and who's who gives speeches
and who, maybe administrators have a certain data or projects and who
are into Dawa, where they read something. And the first thing
that they actually think is that, oh, this is such a beautiful
point, this is this will create a great impact in my speech. Or this
will be such an interesting point to mention to people. So we don't
want to do that. When we study, we should be the first recipients of
that knowledge, it should benefit us first. And the way to make it
benefit us first is to actually feel that we want to benefit from
it first. So if it's an interesting point, we must reflect
on it first. And then if we reflected on it, we've then
absorbed it, we've made it ours, it will probably come out in a
much more powerful way, if you're a speaker, or if you're a diary,
and invited to Allah subhanaw taala in some form of the other
could probably come up in a much more impactful way. Because it'd
be coming out of the heart, because we've reflected over it,
we've actually made it ours, we've
not just taken it as some raw data just to present it's not
statistics that we're just presenting. It's actually
something that we have now taken we've adopted with imbibed within
ourselves, and now when we speak, it's going to be fully clothed in
our own persuasion. Inshallah. So, the progress of Allah Islam is
speaking about three things that when we're seeking knowledge, it
should not be to vie with scholars. Now, again, this is some
ignorant person wants to go and doesn't like a particular scholar.
So they go and they stay, reset something just so that they can
put a scholar down for absolutely no purpose whatsoever, just as a
polemic, just as an argument. And this is this happens sometimes,
especially with people who have a certain type of argumentative
nature within their hearts. For person has an argumentative needs
an argumentative person, what they will be thinking about is, how can
I get one over the other person? So everything they're studying is
also looking for ammunition? That's the problem with disputes.
Because what it does is that even it's, even when you're in solid,
it spoils your prayer. Because if the if you see the other person
just before the solid, the shaytaan, who's always wanting to
distract us in solid anyway, will start to make us feel that, oh, I
can use this evidence against him. He said this last time, but it
should be this way. We justify so many things that are made even if
we're true. We look anyone Shafi. He says that whenever I've had a
discussion with someone,
an argument about something, a discussion of an enemy nature, a
discussion of a nature to do
with academics in terms of a particular muscle or a particular
problem particular issue, a 50 5050 issue, my dua is that
Allah subhanaw taala make the Huck the truth, come onto the tongue of
the other person, that I don't mind being
the one told that I made a mistake and for me to correct myself. And
his his whole focus was that the heart could be uplifted. And the
heart is what prevail, and that the other person not be ashamed
and put down.
I mean, that's serious if loss that sincerity to its, you know,
that sincerity to a very high, very high level. But here, the
robots are awesome is, is really warning us against these wrong
intentions that could creep in our mind if we don't even have these
intentions.
At the outset, that's not what we embarked on our knowledge for. But
then these things come in, because we may have run into an argument
with someone and it may have been a foolish argument someone may
have a foolish person may have costed us, maybe some
uncle in our family, or cousin or somebody.
And now, they because they're not convinced about religiosity as
much as we are as much as you are, for example. So then they take you
to task for something. Now you're going there looking for something
to get back at him from there, you have to judge the situation, is it
worth it or not? Is it something they're going to be convinced by
or not, I could give him all the evidences Will he listen or not.
So
this knowledge is so valuable, that we should not diminish it, by
studying it to just vie with a scholar, argue with fools. And
that's what I mean, you've got this person, this old friend is
old person you knew. Now you just changed your life, and they want
to make you feel that you're just trying to be over pious or
something. So you go and waste your time looking for a lot more
evidences and whereas it's not going to really work with them.
You'd rather go and study something for yourself just to
improve yourself in the sight of Allah subhanaw taala will capture
public notice this is where you're doing it just to
attract people to yourself.
Just so that they may call you a great scholar,
a very good speaker.
Right. And that's, that's another malady. That's another problem
that we have to be aware of. And as you can see from this is that
the more knowledgeable you become, the more the possibility,
the more the possibility of these things coming up.
Because when you get more knowledge, then you might think
that a particular scholar what he's saying is wrong.
So then you will go and just particularly to overcome the
person you icon, study that much more or that particular topic
or a fool.
Right. And likewise, to capture public notice. So basically, the
way I look at this is I think, this probably becomes more of a
challenge, the more knowledge you study. That's why it's not
sufficient only to have a good intention at the outset. It's a
very good thing to start with that. But it's also very important
that we keep reminding ourselves probably before every
seating we have of study. Every time we sit down to read something
to learn something to read our key tabs and our books and so on.
Allah will enter them into the Hellfire because they're wasting
their time Allah has given them such a resource, the progress that
Allah has himself when
you read the low be higher on your fucky hoof. Indeed, whoever Allah
subhanaw taala intends good with them. He gives them deep
understanding in the faith. Now if we're to use that knowledge in the
wrong way to do the wrong thing with then Allah subhanho wa Taala
will see that we're not valuing the knowledge. We're not doing it
for the right thing. One must understand from this that you
can't do a marble marble from the honeymoon card. Yes, if there is a
bottle and if there is a misunderstanding, then there must
be a way to correct that. And it's aroma who will correct other
aroma. Not the general fall can't do it as much, although sometimes
that happens is one that's a possibility.
So we're not trying to say that we should exclude all of that. It's
just the intention needs to be correct in that