Quotes About Knowledge

“Humans can increase their degree of freedom through knowledge. Abu Hamid al-Ghazali says: "Man has choice in what he knows and is choice-less and externally controlled in what he doesn't know", which means that whenever his knowledge expands, his freedom increases.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“God is closer to those who try to understand Him than those who have a blind faith in Him.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“Work and strive toward God by seeking knowledge, not by growing beards, shortening garments, wearing sandals and obsessing over appearances and secondary things, for the first verse that was revealed of your Book was: "Read!"

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“People praise you for what they suppose is in you; but you must blame your soul for what you know is in it.

Ibn 'Ata Allah al-Iskandari

“Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorized.

Imam ash-Shafi`i

“The person who is seeking the truth, one evidence will be enough for him. A person who is upon their desires, a thousand clues will still not be clear for him.

Imam al-Albani

“Of the main signs of Allah’s mercy towards someone is that He starts to reveal that person’s faults to himself so that the person can recognize and make efforts to correct. In dire contrast a major sign of Allah’s anger towards someone is that He hides that person’s faults from himself so that he keeps erring.

Zulfiqar Ahmad

“A man leaves from his house having sins similar in size to the Mount of Tuhaama. But when he hears some knowledge, he becomes fearful and repents. He returns to his home afterwards with no sins. Thus you should never abandon attending the gatherings of the scholars.

Umar ibn al-Khattab

“Man has free will in the things he has knowledge about, but is pushed forward by other forces in the things he has no knowledge about. In other words, his freedom increases whenever his knowledge increases.

Muhammad al-Ghazali

“It is fitting for a student that he begins with memorization of the Book of Allah -since it is the greatest of the branches of knowledge and that which should be placed first and given precedence.

al-Khateeb al-Baghdadi

“The best women are the women of the Ansār, for their modesty does not prevent them from learning about their religion.

Aisha bint Abu Bakr (Wife of Prophet Muhammad)

“If you’re a student, don’t pose as a scholar.
If you’re a scholar, don’t pose as a prophet.

Shaykh Omar Suleiman

“Arguing with people removes the blessings of knowledge from one’s heart.

Imam Malik ibn Anas

“When you desire to be honored by knowledge and to be ascribed to it and to be from its people before giving the knowledge what right it has over you (from action), its light becomes veiled from you and all that remains upon you is its mark and appearance. That knowledge is against you, not for you. This is since knowledge directs to implementing it. So if knowledge is not implemented in its due stages, its blessings depart.

Al-Junayd al-Baghdadi

“Purifying the soul, acting upon knowledge, and fearing Allah have a tremendous effect on obtaining knowledge.

Ibn Taymiyyah

“He whose knowledge makes him arrogant has been caught in Satan’s web. The more knowledge you have, the more humble you should be.

Mufti Ismail Menk

“Sins have many side effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“The very essence of our religion is that you will get a deeper faith if you are educated and get the right knowledge.

Tariq Ramadan

“So let a person strive to keep away his shoulders (to keep away himself) from the Fire. And there is no might nor strength for change except by Allah.

Then it should be known that knowledge is not by the large number of narrations; rather knowledge is light which is put in the heart by Allah.

And its conditions are: Ittiba` (holding on to it and acting upon it), and running way from desires and innovation (false additions to the religion).

Imam ad-Dahabi (az-Zahabi)

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