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Gaining Knowledge Is An Obligation
Allah ﷻ says in the Qur’an:
يَرۡفَعِ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ مِنكُمۡ وَٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُواْ ٱلۡعِلۡمَ دَرَجَٰتٖۚ
Allah will raise those who have believed among you and those who were given knowledge, by degrees.
[al-Mujaadilah 58:11]
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وَقُل رَّبِّ زِدۡنِی عِلۡمࣰا
“and say: ‘My Lord! Increase me in knowledge’”
[Ta-Ha 20:114]
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قُلۡ هَلۡ یَسۡتَوِی ٱلَّذِینَ یَعۡلَمُونَ وَٱلَّذِینَ لَا یَعۡلَمُونَۗ إِنَّمَا یَتَذَكَّرُ أُو۟لُوا۟ ٱلۡأَلۡبَـٰبِ
“Say: ‘Are those who know equal to those who know not?’ It is only men of understanding who will remember (i.e. get a lesson from Allâh’s Signs and Verses)”
[al-Zumar 39:9]
_ Anas ibn Malik رضي الله عنه reported: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Seeking knowledge is an obligation upon every Muslim.”_
[Sunan Ibn Mājah 224, Grade: Sahih]
_ Narrated by Abu Hurairah رضي الله عنه: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “Whoever takes a path upon which to obtain knowledge, Allah makes the path to Paradise easy for him.”_
[Abu ‘Esa (At-Tirmidhi) said this hadeeth is hasan (good) in Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2646]
_ Abud-Darda رضي الله عنه reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “He who follows a path in quest of knowledge, Allah will make the path of Jannah easy to him. The angels lower their wings over the seeker of knowledge, being pleased with what he does. The inhabitants of the heavens and the earth and even the fish in the depth of the oceans seek forgiveness for him. The superiority of the learned man over the devout worshipper is like that of the full moon to the rest of the stars (i.e., in brightness). The learned are the heirs of the Prophets who bequeath neither dinar nor dirham but only that of knowledge; and he who acquires it, has in fact acquired an abundant portion.”_
[Wording here from Riyad as-Salihin 1388, graded shaeeh (authentic) by Al-Albaani in Sunan Abi Dawud 3641]
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