Suhaib Webb – Why We Must Choose Knowledge Over Stupidity

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.