The second basis:
Acquiring needed religious knowledge
and applying it
It is the second pillar upon which we should construct striving and chastening our souls. Man should know and fulfill what is inevitable from the orders of Sharia in Ibadat (acts of worship), Mo'amalat (dealings), Akeedah (faith) and Akhlak (manners).
The way of righteous people is not a way of ignorance, arbitrary or laziness in gaining knowledge and fulfilling it, it is based on knowledge and seeking it, there is no other religion that dignifies knowledge and its people and gives great grants for both teachers and learners like our religion, everyone who wants to follow the way of chastening his soul to reach his guidance, he should make knowledge his leader and get what is inevitable from it, why? Because his soul that he wants to chasten and direct by the orders of Sharia and also Satan that supports and whispers to it, enter to man from the side where he ignores the orders of Sharia, so he should know the orders of Sharia in all his deeds either for life or religious or anything.
I tell you oh brothers and anyone who wants to reach Allah's satisfaction: The best thing man can do for Allah's sake is not Salah (prayers), Seyam (fastening), Zakat (charity) or Hajj (pilgrimage), but it is acquiring religious knowledge and jurisprudence. When you count the rewards of a knowledge sitting, you will know that it is more than all expectations and imagination, it was narrated that the reward of a knowledge sitting:
"A knowledge sitting however short it is, is better than worshipping for seventy years, nights up and days fasting."
I.e. worshipping seventy years without knowledge, if someone worshipped seventy years nights up and days fasting while he is ignorant and another one didn’t do like him but he attended a knowledge sitting to correct his worship, he would have rewards from Allah more than the first one because the first worshipped Allah while he is ignorant and didn’t seek inevitable knowledge.
The first teacher (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said while he urges all Muslims to attend sittings of knowledge:
"Seek knowledge even if it is in China, seeking knowledge is a duty for every Muslim." He (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) also said: "If you pass heavens gardens, have shares. They asked: Oh apostle of Allah, what are heavens gardens? He said: Knowledge sittings." He (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) also said: "Anyone who leaves his home seeking knowledge, angels put down their wings for him satisfied with what he does." He (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) also said: "Everything asks forgiveness for knowledge seeker even whales in seas."
So knowledge sittings are better than all these acts of worship, because the deeds of that who prays, fasts or stays up nights are all Sunna or Nafelah (not duties or obligations), whereas the apostle of Allah (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said that seeking knowledge is a duty.
Both men and women are equal in this because there is no difference between men and women in Ibadat (acts of worship), Mo'amalat (dealings) or other things except some things that relates to men not women and vice versa, but in general both are equal.
What is the obligatory knowledge for every male or female Muslim to be ready for following the way of Jihad? We take this from the Hadeeth of the apostle of Allah (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) in which he talked about the pillars of Islam and without which there is not real Islam in the heart of a Muslim, he (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said:
"Islam is constructed upon five pillars, shahadet Ala ilaah illa Allah wa'ann Mohammed abdoho warasooloh) the confession that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is His slave and His apostle, ikam assalah (performing the prayers), eetaa azzakah (giving charity), Hajj albayt (performing Hajj to Ka'aba) and sawm Ramadan (fasting during Ramadan)."
This noble Hadeeth is the basic rule that should be regarded by all, other things can be learned when a follower needs or about to need them such as Zakah, Hajj, marriage, children, trade, dealings or other things, so when they come, he is ready for them so as not to be tricked or deceived by ignorance to follow the traps of the soul or disobey the orders of Sharia.
So everyone must learn three things at once; Akeeda (faith), Salah (prayers) and Seyam (fasting), then fourthly things related to women for women and girls like the orders of privates, menstruation, purification and legal finery, they should learn this or their guardian learn it and teach them if he can.
We mention this in little details; Akeeda (faith) begins with Ashahadatayn the two confessions, and the secrets of this great confession of the oneness of Allah and the apostolate to his apostle (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) and what this great confession requires from the contentment by fate and destiny which is the greatest pressure of the age, we also need to understand the bases of accepting or agreeing to deeds such as allegiance to Allah, seeking His satisfaction and how to seek legal sustenance.
He should also learn how to fortify himself by fortifications of Sharia; the verses of Koran and prophetic sayings, so as not to be an easy prey for illusion, quackery, conjurers, footpads, those who assume to be Sufis and extremists or other things when he experiments life and faces different attitudes like supply and demand, health and sickness, poverty and richness or other things in life which are inevitable. When he passes such things he might be affected due to his ignorance.
Then the second and the third which are the knowledge of Salah and Seyam and of course purification, ablution and wash, we are asked to know things required to perform Salah not erudition to answer questions about it and also Seyam, as for Zakah and Hajj, as I said before when it is time to perform them I must learn about them , there is no executions.
There are also lots of other rights every Muslim need to learn about them at their times such as, the rights of parents, relatives, kinship, neighbors, the poor, patients, the road, labor, food and others. He also needs to know the sacred words our sir the apostle of Allah (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) used to say at every deed either at night or day to complete these legislating principles, we will deal with this later in details, the principle for all that we mentioned is to learn how to work for Allah's sake.
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