as-Saffaareenee (rahima-hullaah) said:
((And we are not focusing on mentioning the virtues of the people of Hadeeth, for indeed their virtues are well known and their merits are many. So whoever belittles them, then he is despicable and lowly. And whoever hates them, then he is from the backward party of the Devil)).
Lawaa.ihul-Anwaar - Volume 2, Page 355
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Shaykhul Islaam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah said:
"So if your conscious tells you to seek ikhlaas, then turn to greed firstly, and slaughter it with the knife of despair, then turn to the love of being praised and abandon it like how those who adore the life of this world abandon the hereafter. If you are successful in slaughtering greed and in abandoning the love of being praised, then ikhlaas will be easy for you."
Ref: How to attain Ikhlaas
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Reference: The Book of Knowledge - Page 162 |
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We ask Allaah to aid those He has honoured with an interest for seeking knowledge. However, knowledge within itself is a difficult undertaking that requires great effort. We know that the older a person grows, the larger he becomes physically, and the weaker he becomes intellectually.
So this person who is starting to seek knowledge at an old age should choose a trustworthy scholar to learn from, because gaining knowledge by way of the scholars saves time, is better and easier.
It saves time because the scholar is like an encyclopedia, especially if he is well-versed in Arabic grammar, Tafseer, Hadeeth, Fiqh and other sciences. So instead of having to read twenty books for instance, he can easily acquire the knowledge within them from a scholar, this is why it saves time.
It is also safer. For one may rely on a book whose author`s method is different from the method of the righteous predecessors, whether in deriving evidence or issuing rulings.
Therefore we advice this person who wants to seek knowledge at old age to stick to and study under a reliable scholar, for this will save him time. He should not despair and say: `I am too old now`, because by doing so he would deny himself knowledge.
It was narrated that a man once entered a Masjid after Dhuhr and sat down, so someone commanded him to get up and perform two Rak`ahs, so he got up and prayed. On another occasion, he entered the Masjid after `Asr and started to perform two Rak`ahs, the man told him: `Do not pray now, this is a time when prayers are prohibited.`
He then said to himself: `I must seek knowledge.` He then started seeking knowledge until he became an Imaam. It was ignorance that drove him to seek knowledge. If Allaah knows you have good intentions and blesses you with success, you may acquire a great deal of knowledge.
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ÇáãÑÌÚ: كتاب العلم - ص162 |
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و سئل – حفظه الله تعالى-: بماذا تنصح من بداء في طلب العلم على كبر سنه؟ وان لم يتيسر له شيخ ياخذ منه ويلازمه فهل ينفعه الطلب بلا شيخ؟ |
نسال الله أن يعين من أكرمه الله بالاتجاه إلى طلب العلم، ولكن العلم في ذاته صعب يحتاج إلى جهد كبير، لأننا نعلم انه كلما تقدمت السن من الإنسان زاد حجمه وقل فهمه، فهذا الرجل الذي بداء الآن في طلب العلم ينبغي له أن يختار عالماً يثق بعلمه ليطلب العلم عليه، لان طلب العلم عن طريق المشايخ أوفر واقرب وأيسر، فهو أوفر لان الشيخ عبارة عن موسوعة علمية، لا سيما الذي عنده علم نافع في النحو و التفسير والحديث والفقه وغيره.
فبدلاً أن يحتاج إلى عشرين كتاباً يتيسر تحصيله من الشيخ، وهو لذلك يكون اقصراً زمناً، وهو اقرب للسلامة كذلك، لأنه ربما يعتمد على كتاب ويكون نهج مؤلفه مخالفاً لنهج السلف سواء في الاستدلال أو في الأحكام.
فننصح هذا الرجل الذي يريد طلب العلم على الكبر أن يلزم شيخاً موثوقاً ، ويأخذ منه، لان ذلك أوفر له ، ولا ييأس ، ولا يقول بلغت من الكبر عتياً، لأنه بذلك يحرم نفسه من العلم.
وقد ذكر أن بعض أهل العلم دخل المسجد يوماً بعد صلاة الظهر فجلس، فقال له احد الناس: قم فصلى ركعتين، فقام فصلى ركعتين، وذات يوم دخل المسجد بعد صلاة العصر فكبر ليصلى ركعتين فقال له الرجل: لا تصلى فهذا وقت نهى، فقال: لا بد أن اطلب العلم، وبدا في طلب العلم حتى صار إماما، فكان هذا الجهل سبباً لعلمه، وإذا علم الله منك حسن النية ومن عليك بالتوفيق فقد تجمع من العلم الشئ الكثير. |
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