Abu Nu’aym (Rahimahullah) narrates in Al-Hilyah that Mu’aadh bin Jabal (Radia Allahu ‘Anhu) Said:
“Knowledge is a comforting friend in times of loneliness, it is the best companion during travels, and it is the inner friend who speaks to you in your privacy. Knowledge is the discerning proof of what is right and what is wrong, and it is the positive force that will help you surmount the trials of comfort, as well as those of hardships. Knowledge is your most powerful sword against your enemy, and finally, it is your most dignifying raiment in the company of your close companions.
Through knowledge, Allah, blessed be His Name, raises some people in rank, and He makes them leaders in righteousness and models in morality. The vestige of their faith is avidly sought, their deeds are emulated perceptively, and people will seek and sanction their opinions solicitously and unequivocally. The heavenly angels seek their company and anoint them with their wings, every fresh or withered life they pass by implore Almighty Allah to forgive them their sins, even the fish in the oceans, the beasts of the lands and every bird of prey and migratory bird pray and solicit the mercy of Almighty Allah on their behalf.
This is because knowledge revives the dead hearts and drives them out of darkness into light, and because knowledge is the light of the inner eyes that cures one’s blindness and restores his inner sight”
The question remains: How to make them students passionate about knowledge seeking. Quenching one's thirst for knowledge is a great thing to do. Yet, I find it difficult to brainwash my students into believing that knowledge is a treasure far more valuable than any material gains that humans can obtain. Sigh
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the same with the others, it is hard to bring horse to water harder still to make them drink as the latter needs internal push that hardly comes from outside. Should we manage to help them find their purpose of seeking knowledge, our task of instilling them love for knowledge would be like a piece of cake.To my humble opinion,first and foremost i ought to make them realise that i myself am fond of knwledge,avid seeker of knowledge, make it beautiful and lofty and care less of the allure of ephemeral world. but it is hard as knowledge itself is 'nur' and favors not those mired in God's wraths
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