The Student of Knowledge: Between Arrogance and Ignorance
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Question:
The questioner says: Shaykh, sometimes a student of knowledge feels that he has reached a high rank in knowledge, and sometimes he feels that he is ignorant. What is the cause of this state? And how do you protect students of knowledge?
Answer:
A person is ignorant as long as he is, even if he has learned a lot. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Isra 17:85] So what he does not know is greater than what he knows. Therefore, a person should consider himself deficient and lacking in knowledge, and not consider himself to have reached a high rank in knowledge. This is delusion. This also discourages him from seeking knowledge, and knowledge has no end. Rather, the Muslim takes what Allah makes easy for him, and whoever says that he is a scholar is ignorant. Yes.
The questioner says: Shaykh, sometimes a student of knowledge feels that he has reached a high rank in knowledge, and sometimes he feels that he is ignorant. What is the cause of this state? And how do you protect students of knowledge?
Answer:
A person is ignorant as long as he is, even if he has learned a lot. Allah the Exalted said:
And mankind have not been given of knowledge except a little."
وَمَا أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا
Source
فتاوى على الهواء 05-01-1436هـ — alfawzan.live (23:33)
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