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take care of his mind. He does not remove from his mind evils like pride, hatred, show, bad treatment and desire of name and fame. He does not care of this saying of the Prophet. A little show is shirk. The Prophet said : He who has got pride to the weight of a mustard seed will not enter Paradise. He also said : Hatred destroys all virtues as fire burns fuets. He said : Greed for honour and wealth generate hypocrisy as water grows crops. Such a learned men forgets the following Hadis : God does not look to your figures, but to your hearts and actions. They know outward divine services but not inward qualities. Mind is the root as nobody will get salvation except one having sound soul. Such a man is like a well of stool of which the outer cover is good but its interior is full of obnoxious smell, or he is like a house on the roof of which lamp is lighted but its interior is full of darkness or he is like a man who adorns the door of his house to receive the king but spreads out stool in its interior.
This is his erroneous belief. His near illustration is this A man sows seeds of corn of which corn grows along with weeds. He orders to take out the weeds and keep the corn plants. But his men cut only the top portion of the weeds. As a result they grow stronger with many branches. The evils on mind are the root of sins. Who so does not purify his soul from these evils, his divine service does not become perfect.

(3) Third class learned man. The learned men of this class know that these internal evils are bad but owing to their self-praise they think that they are free from these evils and that God will not try them for this. When their pride is expressed, they say that it is not pride but it is disclosing the honour of learning.
They say that their dishonor is the dishonor of Islam. They should remember the case of Hazrat Omar. When he went to visit Syria, he had then a coarse cloth on him which the people disliked. Then he said : We are such a people who have been honored by the religion of Islam. We are not seekers of honour from other peoples.

(4) Fourth class of learned men. They learn education, purify their bodily limbs and adorn them with divine services. They give up open sins and purify their minds from show, hatred, pride and other evils, yet they entertain and erroneous belief and keep away from Morakaba or meditation and they seek name and fame. They write books also to get priase and accuse others

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of bad writing. They also copy the writings of other with amendments.

THE LEARNED MEN OF UNNECESSARY LEARNING: We