Chapter I: Acquisition of Knowledge
ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE
SECTION 1 - EXCELLENCE OF LEARNING
PROOF OF THE QURAN: God says: God, angels and those learned men who stand on justice bear testimony that there is no deity but He - 3 : 18. Now look, O dear readers, how God began attestation first by Himself, then by His angels and then by the learned. It is understood from this veTse that the rank of the learned and their honour are much high. God says: Those who are believers among you and the learned, God will increase their rank - 58 : 12. Hazrat Ibn Abbas said about them: The rank of the learned is seven hundred times more than that of the believers, and the ofference between the two ranks is the distance of the path of five hundred years. God says: Are those who are learned equal to the illiterate - 39 : 9 ? God says: The learned among His servants fear God most - 35 : 28. God says: Say, God is sufficient as a witness between me and you and those who have got knowledge of the Quran - 13 : 43. God says: But those who had been granted knowledge said: Alas for you, the reward of God is best for those who believe and do good - 28 : 80.
God says: These parables We set forth for men and none understands them except the learned - 29 : 42. God says: If they had only referred it to the Apostle and to those charged with authority among them, those of them who would investigate it would have know it - 4 : 93. God thus made knowledge dependent upon their efforts. In the practical religion, God's commands have been placed upon the investigation of the learned and their rank with the prophets for propagation of God's commands. God says: O the children of Adam! I have sent down to you raiment to cover your shame and adornment to you, but the raiment of piety is best - 7 : 25. God says: I have sent to them a book and with knowledge I explained it in detail, a guide and a mercy to all who believe - 7 : 52. God says: I shall recount their story with knowledge -7:6. God says: It is a clear sign in the hearts of those to whom knowledge has reached - 29 : 48. God says: He created man and taught him to speak - 55 ; 2.
HADIS: The Holy Prophet said: God gives knowledge of religion and guidance to truth to one whose good He intends. He
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