Abu Musa (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger
of Allah (PBUH) said, "The guidance and knowledge
with which Allah has sent me are like abundant rain which fell
on a land. A fertile part of it absorbed the water and brought
forth profuse herbage and pasture; and solid ground patches
which retained the water by which Allah has benefited people,
who drank from it, irrigated their crops and sowed their seeds;
and another sandy plane which could neither retain the water
nor produce herbage. Such is the similitude of the person who
becomes well-versed in the religion of Allah and receives benefit
from the Message entrusted to me by Allah, so he himself has
learned and taught it to others; such is also the similitude
of the person who has stubbornly and ignorantly rejected Allah's
Guidance with which I have been sent.'' (BUKHAARI,
MUSLIM)
Ibn A’bbaas
reported that Nabi (saw) said “When you pass by
the meadows of Paradise indulge freely in it!” They said ‘Rasool Allah! What are the meadows of Paradise?’
He said “The circles of I’lm” (TABARAANI in ‘Al Mu’jam al Kabeer’)
Abu Hurayrah reported
that Nabi (saw) said “Never do a people gather
in one of the houses of Allah reciting the Book of Allah and
studying it between them except that sakeenah descends upon
them and rahmah enshrouds them the angels throng around them
and Allah mentions them to those who are with Him.” (MUSLIM, ABU DAWOOD)
Jaabir bin A’bdullah
reported An Ansari woman said to Allah's Apostle, "O Allah's
Apostle! Shall I make something for you to sit on, as I have
a slave who is a carpenter?" He replied, "If
you wish." So, she got a pulpit made for him.
When it was Friday the Prophet sat on that pulpit. The date-palm
stem near which the Prophet used to deliver his sermons cried
so much so that it was about to burst. The Prophet came down
from the pulpit to the stem and embraced it and it started groaning
like a child being persuaded to stop crying and then it stopped
crying. The Prophet said,"It has cried because
of (missing) what it use to hear of the religious knowledge." (BUKHAARI [vol.3 no.308])
The detailed understanding
of the Quran and thus also of Islam is accessible to us once
we engage in aquiring the Islamic knowledge, Allah (swt) says “…He explains the ayaat in detail for people
who have knowledge [liqawmin ya’lamoon]” (Yoonus 10:5)
Imaam
Maalik said that it had reached him that Luqmaan al Hakeem [The
Wise] said to his son “O son sit with the u’lemaa’
and keep close to them. Allah gives life to the hearts with
the light of hikmah as Allah gives life to the dead earth with
the abundant rain of the sky.” (MAALIK in ‘al
Muwatta’ kitaabul I’lm [vol.2 no.1889]) |
