*Food for Thought ~ Not for Stomachs*
- Hits: 1166
'Nahmaduhu Wa Nusalli Ala Rasoolilah Kareem~
`Amma `Baad...Fa' Aouzobillahi Minash Shaitaannir Rajeem'
'Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim'
'Assalam Alaikum Wa Rehmath Ullahi Wa Barkatahu'.
*Food for Thought ~ Not for Stomachs* {!}
Abû Al-Dardâ`~ [Allâh be pleased with him] used to say...
“Learn knowledge before it is taken away, and it is taken away by its people [scholars] being taken away. The scholar and the student are partners in good and there is no good in any other people. The richest of men is the knowledgeable man whose knowledge is needed....! He benefits those who need him and if done without...
He benefits himself with the knowledge Allâh [Azza wa Jall }has placed with him {!} So how is it I see your scholars dying yet the ignorant among you not learning...?
I fear that the predecessor will depart and the successor will not learn. If the scholar studies, he only increases in knowledge, and he does not take anything away from knowledge.. And if the ignorant studies, he will find knowledge firm and established... So how is it that I see you full up with food... yet starved of knowledge {?} [Source ~Ibn ‘Abd Al-Barr~Jâmi’ Bayân Al-‘Ilm wa Fadlihi Vol. 2 page #233.] Allâh {Azza wa Jall} will say...'What number of years did you stay on earth ? 'They will say: we stayed a day or part of a day.
Ask of those who keep account. ‘Allah will say... 'You stayed not but a little, if you had only known! Did you think that We had created you in play (without any purpose), and that you would not be brought back to Us ' ?[Source: Qur`an ~Surat Al-Müminün~# 23~ {The Believers}~ A # 112-115]
'SALAAMS' TO ALL ~
Courtesy: ~Sister Y a s m i n ~
Compiled, edited and adapted by Khalid Latif.