Seek knowledge and don’t be worried regarding the future
Question: What is your advice for the one who wants to seek knowledge of the religion however sometimes he is worried thinking about the future and and studying in the field of medicine and the likes?
Answer :
This person is wrong in his thinking. As long as he wants to seek knowledge then this is the future. What is the future ? The one who seeks (religious) knowledge for the sake of Allah and he is sincere in it and he is sincere towards Allah and works hard, then indeed this person has been guided towards the (good) future and towards the best path of the future. As for the one who thinks that seeking knowledge is for the one who is unoccupied (not busy with the worldly activities) those who don’t have a future, then this person firstly is in need of correcting what is with him from the wrong understanding because seeking knowledge of the religion is from the greatest ways for achieving a bright future and for the happy life and for the hereafter which is full of blessings with the permission of Allah Azza Wa Jal. But many of the people do not know.
Do you think that the future is when you study alongside Suaad or Amal (females) and you graduate from a university and you have five girl friends? And it may be that you exit (the university) with your degree and you don’t find anyone accepting you (by giving job) and you don’t find a job and you don’t find anything and you remain abandoned. Is this the future?
Is the future that you study in the affairs like this and you leave then you are not able to pray the funeral prayer properly and you don’t even know what is to be said in At-tashahhud (in the salah) and you are not able to recite the surah Al-Fātiḥa properly? Which future is this? This is a loss.
Due to this, whoever Allah has made easy for him seeking knowledge (of religion) in the time of strangeness then he should praise Allah and know that surely it is miracle from Allah Azza Wa Jal. We are in the time of strangeness more severe than the past. So whoever Allah has made easy for him to seek knowledge let him know that verily Allah has granted him success to a great good. So he should pay attention and strive for this blessing and bite upon it with the molar teeth. Don’t think left and right. The people are in darkness, murkiness and many of them are in clear deviation and many of them have known the reality and suffer but are not able to pull out of it (darkness). As for you if you have directed yourself for seeking knowledge then praise Allah, praise Allah you are upon good. You worship your Lord upon clarity. You know Tawheed of Allah and you enjoin the good and forbid the evil are Ahlus Sunnah (people of sunnah). The trial comes then the people plunge into it and Ahlus Sunnah are safe.
And every time a trial comes the people plunge into it between the earlier and later and between less and more (meaning all people) and the Ahlus-Sunnah-wal-Jamah are upon good and tranquility. Because they know that which is with Allāh is better and will remain and what they are upon knowledge, teaching and holding on the sunnah are better than the Dunya and its positions.
So what is the matter with you and (studying) medicine and confusion? There are so many doctors? How many doctors are there? Look into the streets how much do you find from the lists (of doctors) : this doctor, the specialist, the so and so clinic and so on. They are not in need of you. They are many. But search for the scholars, search for the scholars those by whom the people get benefited. You don’t find them. You don’t find except a small number. Rather, you may find those who attribute themselves to knowledge and has deviated, his manhaj is imperfect, his deen has been defected and has harmed the knowledge. No one is safe from it except those whom Allah has saved
The Imam Shu’ba bin Al-Hajjaaj, leader of the believers in the field of hadith used to teach his students and they were in thousands and he used to tell some of his companions “how many of these (students) do you think will be upright (benefit from seeking knowledge and benefit the people)” and they were many and in thousands. They said Allah knows best. He then said “if at least five of them fair well that would be good” meaning if they (those five) became scholars and the people benefit from them that would be good.
If we see our land Yemen if there was someone who had counted the number of students who came to Daarul Hadith at Dammaj from the day it was established, if we had a computer and registered the names of all those who entered Dammaj, it how many do you expect they would have been who came to it for seeking knowledge? Tens of thousands, rather I expect them to exceed one hundred thousand students of knowledge who came to Dammaj. Especially in the recent times may be in a single day (students) come to Dammaj in four buses daily. This one goes and that one comes and this one goes and that one comes. How many of them became firm upon the knowledge and remained upon Sunnah and goodness? (We could count) in fingers, (they are) less in number, less in number and they were almost unknown among the people due to large number of trials so that’s why praise Allah Azza wa jalla that He gave you success in seeking knowledge and do not waste your future and beware of the wasted future, the future of the ignorant ones!
Answered by :
Shaykh Abu Muadh Husain Al Hateebi حفظه الله
Translated by :
Abu Muaadh Abdullah Al Hindi وفقه الله
Edited by:
Abu Muhammad Nezam Al Hindi
Source:
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