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ILM Gotta Have it!
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Knowledge
Ignorance

• Information
• Facts
• Data
• Know-how
• Skill
• Wisdom
• Learning
• Education

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• It may be said
• that Islam is
• the
• path of "knowledge"

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'ilm is a comprehensive term covering theory,
action education
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• No other religion or ideology has emphasized its
  importance so much

'ilm
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Surah Al Alaq 96 Verse 1 -5
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Surah Al Alaq 96 Verse 1 -5

1. Read! in the name of your Lord Who has created
2. He has created man from a clot
3. Read! And your Lord is the Most Generous
4. Who has taught by the pen
5. He has taught man that which he knew not

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What is the Islamic Concept of Knowledge?
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All knowledge is from Allah (swt)
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• Allah is the first teacher and the absolute guide
  of humanity

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• And Allâh has brought you out from the wombs of
  your mothers while you know nothing. And He gave
  you hearing, sight, and hearts that you might
  give thanks (to Allâh)"
• Surah an-Nahl 16 Verse 78

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• True knowledge is knowledge that brings us closer
  to Allah (swt)

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• Then we understand the purpose of our existence

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Surah Adh Dhariyat 51 Verse 56

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• And I (Allah) created not the Jinn and The
  Mankind except that they should worship Me
  (Alone).

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• Those who have knowledge are aware of this truth
  act accordingly, thereby having a beneficial
  impact on those around them

• Those who are ignorant fumble through the world,
  vainly attempting to satisfy their desires,
  following Shaytan, ultimately failing to
  understand their purpose duty in this life.

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• "Say 'Are those who know equal to those who know
  not?' It is only men of understanding who will
  remember (that is get a lesson from Allah's
  signs)."
• Az-Zumar, 399

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• Knowledge
• comes
• before
• faith

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• We become Muslim
• not through birth
• but through knowledge

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Surah Taha 20Verse 114

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• O my Lord increase me in knowledge

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Does that mean only Islamic Knowledge?
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• knowledge is a means to an end

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• Knowledge is a means of attaining Allahs
  pleasure

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Knowledge is transformative
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For eg life of the Prophet (pbuh)
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• When we approach knowledge as just pieces of
  information it has no transformative effect on
  us

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Points of Information have no sense of purpose
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• Umm Salamah (RA) narrated that the Prophet
  (PBUH)  used to say after the dawn prayer,
• O Allâh, I ask You for beneficial knowledge,
  acceptable action, and good provision.
• (Tirmidhi 2487, Ahmad and Ibn Majah)

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• Abu Hurairah (RA) narrated that Messenger of
  Allâh (PBUH) used to say
• O Allâh, I seek refuge in You from knowledge
  which does not profit, a heart which is not
  submissive, a soul which has an insatiable
  appetite, and a supplication which is not heard.
  
• (Abu Dawud 1543)

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• Abu Hurairah (RA) narrated that the Prophet
  (PBUH)  said,
• It is part of the excellence of a persons
  Islâm that he should discard that which is of no
  benefit to him either in this world or in the
  Hereafter.
• (Tirmidhi 67)

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• Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
• Only one person in two billion will live to be
  116 or older.
• The first toilet ever seen on television was on
  "Leave It To Beaver".
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room
  during a dance.

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Permissible Worldly Knowledge is not Secondary
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