People of The Quran And Knowledge

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 

Knowledge...to taste it is to understand it.  May Allah make us of people of understanding (Ulul-Albaab)

The people of the Quran are the family of Allah on Earth. Allah chooses the people of the Quran. Someone who Allah has chosen, He will be given the knowledge. Someone who Allah did not choose to carry His Quran, he cannot learn it. He will ultimately quit.

Allah does not force people to accept or reject knowledge. How do you know if you are chosen? You grab on to the Quran, and never let go of it. How do you know if you are not chosen? You don't learn it, or you don't want to learn it, or you learn it but you quit. If you want it, go get it! Allah's favor doesn't go away because you don't want it anymore. It goes away because you quit!

Teachers are vessels of the Prophetic knowledge. And for that reason, we have reverence and deep respect of teachers and carriers of knowledge. Knowledge is redeeming...you can't respect knowledge and disrespect your teachers at the same time. Disrespecting the teacher ultimately undercuts your knowledge. 

Knowledge will not be taken away from the minds but by the death of scholars. We respect our teachers  because we understand that they are the propagators of the Prophetic knowledge. 

Abud-Darda (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "He who

follows a path in quest of knowledge, Allah will make the path of Jannah easy to him. The angels lower their wings over the seeker of knowledge, being pleased with what he does. The inhabitants of the heavens and the earth and even the fish in the depth of the oceans seek forgiveness for him. The superiority of the learned man over the devout worshipper is like that of the full moon to the rest of the stars (i.e., in brightness). The learned are the heirs of the Prophets who bequeath neither dinar nor dirham but only that of knowledge; and he who acquires it, has in fact acquired an abundant portion."

[Abu Dawud and At- Tirmidhi].

May Allah make us people of the Quran. Aameen.

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