Imām Ibn Al Qayyim رحمه الله:
فمحبة العلم من علامات السعادة
وبغض العلم من علامات الشقاوة.
❝Loving knowledge is from the signs of delight and happiness. Hating knowledge is from the signs of wretchedness and misery.❞
[Miftāh Dar As-Sā'adah, (1/435)]
A very beautiful and amazing description of Knowledge by Shaykh Salih Al Usaymi حفظه الله, he says:
“It is the honour of everything that exists, and the light of every peak and valley. It is the adornment of the greats, and the pleasure of those who behold it. Whoever is inclined toward it is blessed, and whoever carries it around with them has gained a great prize, and whoever acts according to it will be safe.
If it were a product that was sold, huge amounts of money would be spent on it, and if it were high up in the sky, the people of nobility would have risen up to it.
Out of every marketplace, it is the most profitable, and out of every source of pride, it is the most honourable. Achievements in it are the most noble of achievements, & its resources are the most praiseworthy of resources. The eternally happy is the one who spurs himself to seek it, and encourages the journeying of his soul towards it;
while the wretched is the one who turns away from it or he makes others do so, and distances himself from it, or makes others do so. His nose is blocked from the fragrance of knowledge, and his neck is sealed with the words 'This is a slave who is bereft'.
Knowledge enters the heart of every successful one; without any doorman or seeking permission;
And the bereft repels it due to his failure; O Allāh! Do not make us wretched by prohibiting us from it!”
شرح تعظيم العلم
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Abu ad-Dardā’ رضي الله عنه said:
يَرْزُقُ اللهُ العِلْمَ السُّعَدَاءَ وَيَحْرِمُهُ الأَشْقِيَاءَ
“Allāh grants knowledge to the fortunate ones and deprives the wretched ones of it.”
📚 Jāmi‘ Bayān al-‘Ilm wa Faḍlih (1/244)
Anas ibn Mālik رضي الله عنه reported: RasūlAllāh ﷺ said:
“The most merciful of my Ummah to my Ummah is Abū Bakr. The strictest of them in the commands of Allāh is 'Umar. The most sincerely conscientious of them is 'Uthmān..."
📚 Sunan At-Tirmidhī 3791
رضي الله عنهم أجمعين
Ibn ‘Abbās رضي الله عنه said:
العلم أكثر من أن يحصى، فخذوا من كل شيء أحسنه
“Knowledge is too vast to be fully encompassed, so take the best from every matter.”
📚 Jāmi‘ Bayān al-‘Ilm wa Faḍlih 1/437
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (رحمه الله) said:
عليكم بالسنة، عليكم بالأثر، عليكم بالحديث. لا تكتبوا رأي فلان ورأي فلان
“Hold fast to the Sunnah, hold fast to the narrations, hold fast to the Hadīth. Do not write down the opinions of this person and that person.”
📚 Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābilah, 1/120
هذه العبارة هي قاعدة ذهبية في الدعوة والنصح والإرشاد
قال شيخ بن العثيمين رحمه الله:
" اجعل المخالف للحق؛
كأنه مريض تريد معالجته،
لا كأنه مُجْرمٌ تريد معاقبته " .
[ دروس الحرمين (١٤٣) ]
At-Tabūliyyāt is a huge issue we see online today on various platforms such as YouTube, TikTok and other such platforms.
What is At-Tabūliyyāt? It is when controversial matters are mentioned in order to achieve fame.
It used to be said:
"زلّة العالم مضروب لها الطبل"
"the drums are struck for the mistakes of a scholar"
Sh. Ibn al-'Uthaymīn رحمه said:
"These are issues intended to gain fame; they are called "Tabūliyyāt". Because it is like a drum, it makes sound or ringing"
(Sharh Hilyah Tālib Al-'Ilm p19)
قال بعض العلماء: «العلم صلاة السر، وعبادة القلب».
Some of the scholars said:
Knowledge is a secretive Salāh, and a worship of the heart.
📖 Hilyah Tālib Al-'Ilm
Al-Awzāʿī (رحمه الله) said:
كان هذا العلم كريما يتلقاه الرجال بينهم، فلما دخل في الكتب دخل فيه غير أهله
“This Knowledge was once noble. Men would receive it directly from one another. But when it entered the books, those who were not qualified for it also entered into it.”
📚 Tārīkh Dimashq: 35/188
قال تعالى عن آل فرعون :
"النار يعرضون عليها غدوا وعشيا ويوم تقوم الساعة أدخلوا آل فرعون أشد العذاب"
🔸غافر/46
قال ابن كثير:
وهذه الآية أصل كبير في استدلال أهل السنة على عذاب البرزخ في القبور وهي قوله تعالى : ( النار يعرضون عليها غدوا وعشيّاً ) .
📙 تفسير ابن كثير 4 / 82
Fatima al-Baghdadiyyah (d. 714 AH)
A female Hanbali scholar who was known in her time as the leading lady of the women of her time, she enjoined good and forbade, spoke against deviant groups in her time such as the "Ahmadiyyah", and accomplished things men could not in that regard.
She was a student of Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn Taymiyyah used to prepare himself for her questions due to how many she used to ask him, how good they were, and her quick understanding.
Many women have completed their memorisation of the Qur’an between her hands, such as the mother of Ibn Kathīrs wife, ‘Aisha bint Siddīq, who was the wife Jamāl al-Dīn al-Mizzi (d. 742 AH).
And she [Fatima] also taught ‘Aishas daughter, Ibn Kathīrs wife, Amat al-Rahīm Zaynab.
May Allah ﷻ have mercy upon them all.