Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Purpose Of Seeking Knowledge (Hadith Commentary from Zad alTalibin)

Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa

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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