Knowledge Is More Precious than Wealth

  

One of the Salaf said: “Never leave a good deed because of its difficulty, for the difficulty will eventually go but the deed will remain forever.

Never do a bad deed because of its pleasure/enjoyment, for the pleasure/enjoyment will eventually go but the deed will remain forever.” []

 

‘Alee Ibn Abee Taalib (RA) said:

“Verily knowledge is more precious than wealth. Knowledge  preserves you, while you preserve wealth.

Knowledge judges while wealth is judged upon.

The possessors of wealth have died, while the possessors of knowledge live on.

Their (the scholars) bodies have passed away, but they are still present in the hearts of the people.”

 

Maalik Bin Dinar said: “The greatest punishment a slave (of Allah) can get is hardheartedness.”

 

Al-Haafidh Nu’aym Ibn Hammaad said:

“Whosoever claims that Allaah resembles His creation has disbelieved, and whosoever denies whatever Allaah described Himself with has also disbelieved. And there is no tashbeeh at all in what Allaah has described Himself with, nor in what His Messenger (saw) has described Him with.”

 

He also said: “Whoever makes tashbeeh (resemblance) of Allaah to his creation has committed kufr (disbelief). And whoever denies what Allaah has described himself with has also committed kufr. Indeed, all that Allaah has described himself with, or what His Messenger has described Him with – then there is no tashbeeh in it at all.”

 

Ar-Rabee’ ibn Sulaymaan said: “One day Ash-Shaafi’i narrated a hadith, and a man said to him, ‘Do you accept that, O’ Abu ‘Abd-Allah?‘ He said, ‘If I narrate a saheeh hadith from the Messenger of Allah and I do not accept it, then bear witness that I have lost my mind.’ ”

 

Rabee’ah Ar-Ra’y  said: “Istiwaa is not unknown, and its modality is not comprehendible. And from Allaah is the Message; upon the Messenger is to convey; and upon us is to affirm.”

 

Muhaarib said: “We accompanied Qaasim Ibn ‘Abdir Rahmaan and he became superior over us with long silence, generosity and abundant prayer.”

 

Masrooq narrated: “There isn’t a time that we wake up or go to sleep and I feel remorse upon anything from the worldly life except for not making more sujood to Allaah.”

 

‘Ubaydullaah Ibn Sulaymaan Ibn Mu’aawiyah Ash-Shaamee reported:

 

“Our grandfather wore out two prayer rugs and began on a third, with the place of his knees, face and hands from the abundance of prayer that he offered.”