The scholar who does not desire the truth
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: How can a person be a scholar but not desire the truth?
Answer:
He learns the knowledge and understands it, but he does not act upon it. He does not act upon it. It is not possible for someone to be a scholar if he does not desire it. The desire to learn is necessary. The desire to learn is necessary. So if the desire is for the sake of knowledge only, this does not benefit. If it is for the sake of knowledge and action, then this is the correct desire. Yes.
Because some people learn so they can become a scholar, so that it is said he is a scholar, and it has been said as in the hadith, or to gain a worldly objective, to get a job to do such and such. This person has only what he intended. He has only what he intended,, and it is not for the sake of Allah the Exalted.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: How can a person be a scholar but not desire the truth?
Answer:
He learns the knowledge and understands it, but he does not act upon it. He does not act upon it. It is not possible for someone to be a scholar if he does not desire it. The desire to learn is necessary. The desire to learn is necessary. So if the desire is for the sake of knowledge only, this does not benefit. If it is for the sake of knowledge and action, then this is the correct desire. Yes.
Because some people learn so they can become a scholar, so that it is said he is a scholar, and it has been said as in the hadith, or to gain a worldly objective, to get a job to do such and such. This person has only what he intended. He has only what he intended,
And every person has only what he intended. So whoever’s migration is for Allah and His Messenger, his migration is for Allah and His Messenger. And if his migration is for a worldly thing he will obtain, or a woman he will marry, his migration is to what he migrated for.
وإنما لكل امرئ ما نوى، فمن كانت هجرته لله ورسوله فهجرته لله ورسوله، وإن كانت هجرته لدنيا يصيبها، أو امرأة ينكحها، فهجرته إلى ما هاجر إليه
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، الباب الأول في انقسام القلوب إلى صحيح وسقيم وميت — islamhouse.com (56:26)
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