Manners Of The Knowledge Seeker Essay

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The Manners Of The Knowledge Seeker : 1. Purify your intention for Allah in seeking knowledge Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali (may Allah have Mercy on him) said: “Know that intention (niyyah), will (iradah), and goal (qasd) are various terms that all mean the same thing, and it is a description of the state of the heart when it is a source for two things: knowledge and action. Knowledge comes first - as it is the foundation and condition - and action follows it, since it is the fruit that branches from knowledge. This is because every action – that is, every intentional movement and motion – does not occur without three things: knowledge, will, and ability. Nobody does something without knowing of it. So, he must have knowledge. Likewise, nobody does something without having the will to do it. So, one must have the will to do something, and the meaning of will (iradah) is that the heart reaches out to what it sees as being in accordance with what it seeks. The human was created such that he sometimes does that which is in accordance with what his heart seeks, and sometimes does that which conflicts with what his heart seeks. In such a case, he needs to draw near to that which is …show more content…

And the linguistic meaning of migration (hijrah) is to abandon something, and what is meant here is that one abandons a land. The mention of a woman alongside the worldly matters can be interpreted in two ways, one of them being that a man migrated to marry a woman named Umm Qays, and was thus named ‘the one who migrated for Umm Qays. The second interpretation is that this was mentioned simply to emphasize the warning by way of mentioning a specific example of a general concept to clarify its gravity, and Allah Knows

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