Suhaib Webb – Why We Must Choose Knowledge Over Stupidity
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The speaker discusses the importance of learning and spending one's time in order to achieve a life of learning. He emphasizes the need for functional or dis incorporateions, not just scholarship. The speaker also talks about the importance of knowledge and how it can lead to fulfillment and achieving a goal, such as worshiping and being connected to Allah. The conversation touches on the idea of reward and celebration, rather than only achieving knowledge.
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So he finishes
by talking about living a life of learning
and spending
your time, it goes to education.
Doesn't mean to learn scholarship. At my school,
we tell people, you're not here to become
a scholar. You're here to be functional. We
need functional or the dis literacy,
not dysfunctional attempts at scholarship.
And so he talks about how knowledge is
a means to a goal. And that goal,
as Imam Abu Ghazari says, is to to
worship
and to be connected to Allah. Knowledge in
the in our epistemology
and nomenclature is not just cognition,
it's living.
So ibn Abbas, when he was asked what
his knowledge, he said to be referent.
And then he talks about what to learn,
and he goes through some details on that.
And then he finishes because an hour
is up mentioning to them how he actually
traveled. Like, I bet you went to Baghdad.
From Andalusia to Baghdad, that's quite a journey.
And he mentions some of his trials and
efforts, challenges and struggles
to achieve
knowledge. We live in a society now that
honestly rewards and celebrates
and lauds
stupidity.
The more dumb you are, the more exhibitionist
you are,
the more you reward it. We see it
now.