salahdin
Junior Member
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
The glory of the scholars
Being adorned by the glory of the scholars [includes] preservation of knowledge and exalting it, protecting the honour of its glory and nobility. How much you profit from [knowledge] and implementing it depends on how much you spend of it in this (way), and your loss is dependent upon how much you miss out from this, and there can be no strength or might but by Allah, the Almighty, the All-Wise. Therefore, beware of people with high status playing you for a fool, or being curbed by fools, which would result in you becoming lenient in your fatwaas or in [your] verdict, assessment, or speech.
Also do not scurry to the materialistic people, or stand at their doorsteps, and do not give it (knowledge) to those non-deserving of it, no matter what their status.
Relish your eyesight and your insight by reading the life and biographies of the imaams that have passed away. If you do you will see self-sacrifice for the sake of this protection, especially in the books that collected examples of this, such as: Min Akhlaaqil-’Ulamaa’ (From the Etiquette of the Scholars) by Muhammad Sulaymaan,1 al-Islaam Bayn al-Ulamaa’i wal Hukkam (Islaam Between the Manaahijul-’Ulamaa’i fil Amri bil Ma’roofi, wan Nahyi ‘anil Munkar (The Methodologies of the Scholars in Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil) by Faarooq as-Saamuraa’ee2. I hope that you will see what they mentioned multiplied in ‘Izzatul-’Ulamaa’ (by the author himself), may Allah ease its completion and publishing.
The scholars used to make their seekers memorise the poem of al-Jurjaanee ‘Alee ibn ‘Abdil-’Azeez (died 392H) and it can also be found in his biography. It begins as follows:
“They say there is some discomfort in you but in fact,
They saw a man who withdrew from the place of humiliation
I saw that whoever draws nearer to people would become insignificant to them.
And whosoever is honoured by self-esteem will be honoured,
And if only the people of knowledge protected it, it would in turn have protected them.
And if they exalted it in the hearts of people, it would have been exalted.”
Footnotes:
Printed many times.
Published by Daar al-Wafaa’, Jeddah (1408AH).
*Taken from the Etiquette of Seeking Knowledge by Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd (rahimahullaah)
The glory of the scholars
Being adorned by the glory of the scholars [includes] preservation of knowledge and exalting it, protecting the honour of its glory and nobility. How much you profit from [knowledge] and implementing it depends on how much you spend of it in this (way), and your loss is dependent upon how much you miss out from this, and there can be no strength or might but by Allah, the Almighty, the All-Wise. Therefore, beware of people with high status playing you for a fool, or being curbed by fools, which would result in you becoming lenient in your fatwaas or in [your] verdict, assessment, or speech.
Also do not scurry to the materialistic people, or stand at their doorsteps, and do not give it (knowledge) to those non-deserving of it, no matter what their status.
Relish your eyesight and your insight by reading the life and biographies of the imaams that have passed away. If you do you will see self-sacrifice for the sake of this protection, especially in the books that collected examples of this, such as: Min Akhlaaqil-’Ulamaa’ (From the Etiquette of the Scholars) by Muhammad Sulaymaan,1 al-Islaam Bayn al-Ulamaa’i wal Hukkam (Islaam Between the Manaahijul-’Ulamaa’i fil Amri bil Ma’roofi, wan Nahyi ‘anil Munkar (The Methodologies of the Scholars in Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil) by Faarooq as-Saamuraa’ee2. I hope that you will see what they mentioned multiplied in ‘Izzatul-’Ulamaa’ (by the author himself), may Allah ease its completion and publishing.
The scholars used to make their seekers memorise the poem of al-Jurjaanee ‘Alee ibn ‘Abdil-’Azeez (died 392H) and it can also be found in his biography. It begins as follows:
“They say there is some discomfort in you but in fact,
They saw a man who withdrew from the place of humiliation
I saw that whoever draws nearer to people would become insignificant to them.
And whosoever is honoured by self-esteem will be honoured,
And if only the people of knowledge protected it, it would in turn have protected them.
And if they exalted it in the hearts of people, it would have been exalted.”
Footnotes:
Printed many times.
Published by Daar al-Wafaa’, Jeddah (1408AH).
*Taken from the Etiquette of Seeking Knowledge by Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd (rahimahullaah)
