Seeking and Preaching Knowledge.

 

A nation’s progress, prosperity is measured by a scale called” knowledge”. The Prophet (PBUH) said: "Seeking knowledge is an obligation upon every Muslim". The best of human being (PBUH) also revealed to us that Allah said to man kind. “Propagate if u knows only one verse”.

Knowledge and preach go hand in hand. Preaching is the obligation of every Muslim and for this a person should have knowledge.In our society, preachers do preach and what they are preaching is really appreciable but as they come towards knowledge, calling people to seek knowledge and specifying that knowledge to be religious only, I have strict objection. I want to share an incident of my life when preachers came to our hostel and told us about praying to Allah, offering Prayer regularly, Fasting and doing other good deeds which is really good. But when they said that you are seeking here only materialistic knowledge I was astonished. They were saying in the sense that we are doing sin by getting knowledge of this world but I want them to remind that Allah himself said many times in the best of books” Al Quran’ summary of this is; ‘Explore what is in heavens and earth’.

Human being is the best of creation on what basis we have been ranked ’ashraful makhlukaat’? That’s knowledge. Hazrat Adam(A.S) became superior to angels on the basis of universal knowledge.

Our Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad(S.A.W) said:  “A man who left to acquire knowledge is in the way of Allah, unless he returns home”.

So acquiring worldly knowledge is also a part of Islam. Our Islamic preachers  should emphasize, encourage our students in their concerning field to  get knowledge, so that we can regain our  glory as Muslim Ummah. \

Hakeem ul Umat (Dr. Allama Iqbal) has said;

‘Magr wo elm kay moti wo kitabyn apny abaa ki’
‘Jo dakhn unko Europe men to dil hota hy see-para’ 

written by: EHSAN ASLAM , FINAL-YEAR, BS(PT),ALLAMA IQBAL MEDICAL COLLEGE, LAHORE.

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