A wise man, speaking about knowledge

Monday, November 14, 2011


Sayings from Imaan Ibn Hazm Al Andalusi (Rahimahu Allah) about knowledge: 1."The most noble branches of knowledge are those which bring you close to the Creator and help you to be pleasing to Him."

2."Anyone who spends his time studying something inferior, abandoning higher studies of which he is capable,  is like someone who sows corn in a field capable of growing wheat, or who plants bushes in a soil which could support palm trees and olives"


3."When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth , position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue , look at people that they are better than yourself."

4."A man who is a miser with his knowledge is worse that a man who is miser with his money , for the money-miser is afraid of using up what he possessesa but the knowledge-miser is being mean with something which does not get used up and is not lost when it is given away."

5."There is nothing more harmful to the branches of knowledge and its people that those who enter themselves into it and they are not from its people. The are ignorant and yet they think they have knowledge, they cause corruption whilst thinking they are correcting the affairs."

Sayings 1,2,3,4 they are taking from the book: Al-Akhlâq was-Siyâr
Saying 5, from the book: At-Ta`âlam wa-Atharuhu `alâ Al-Fikr wal-Kitâb

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