5. THE SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS OF KNOWLEDGE
I contemplated a situation that made students of knowledge (tulab al-‘ilni) overlook the purpose [of seeking knowledge]; this situation is when they only care for writing and recording notes; especially those who learn the science of hadith.
This process takes most of their life and keeps them away from memorising (hifz) and understanding; leading their life to end while they only know a little of knowledge (ilm).
Yet the one who was successful, he spends his life in memorising, revision and dedicates the time when he is tired from that in writing and recording; hence he manages to achieve the purpose of learning knowledge. The successful one is he who prioritises and seeks the important because it is impossible for a person to attain all the knowledge in his lifespan.
The majority of sciences are all about understanding because some people acquire some knowledge but overlook implementation, causing all what he learned to be in vain. I seek refuge with Allah from failure.
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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