6. Go down to the earth
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Go down to the earth, and
knowledge will come
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Whomever follows that guidance
will be well
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Breaking the desires
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Breaking the desire of lust and
food
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Control desire for corruption
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Franz Rosenthal
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Quotes
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Know of no longer civilization
that places the acquisition of knowledge at the center of ethos
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Books
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Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept
of Knowledge in Medieval Islam 1970 (reprinted 2007 with a Preface by Dimitri
Gutas)
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Knowledge
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Read in the name of your Lord
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Be a student, be a lover of
Knowledge
·
If one can not be a student, then
help and facilitate it
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Family Traits & Dedication
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Every Irish family, gave at least
one of their children to priesthood
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Every muslim family gave at least
one of their children to Islamic Scholarship
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Non Scholars can participate, as
well
·
In Example
·
A bedouin in West Africa
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Whoever believes in Allah in the
last days should honor his guests
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Two people
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Learners
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Some people are facilitated to
learn
·
The circumstances are right for it
·
Whereas some are not
·
Other people are deprived
·
Those that have the gift should
actively seek to spread it
·
Honor for sake of our tradition
and of our God
·
Signs of the latter days
·
People will no longer learn for
the sake of Allah, but for other ends
·
Sign of depravity
·
It is a sign of the improvised
state of our community that people like me actually represent …
·
Do not say so humbly, but based on
knowledge of our tradition
·
Why people choose not to believe
·
Those who see knowledge
·
But, yet fail to ascribe source to
it
·
Sees a beautiful written letter,
yet state their is no writer
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Empathy
·
Empathy is core of most religions
·
Social-path
·
So important that some people fake
it just to be seen has having it
·
Just to be part of quorum
·
1 out of 20 in US are suspected to
be social-path
·
lack compassion from our own
adversity
·
Some people
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To know God through secondary
knowledge
·
Not as Angels
·
But, through difficulty the soul
is expanded
·
Fundamental Sin
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Distraction
·
Easily distracted
·
Boredom
·
NoonDay Devil
·
Spiritual Sickness
·
Seek distraction through Sex,
Money, Pursuit of Money
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Atheist
·
Koran states to the Atheist let us
weigh it out
·
God is too mighty to create all
this
·
Unrequited Love
·
Questioned about Job
·
My servant, Job, has spoken
rightly of me
·
Job insisted that he was not not
in the wrong
·
But, is it possible that someone
spoke the truth, and yet still be wrong
·
One can speak personal truth
·
But, yet not speak God’s truth
·
Is suffering a wound that will
remain until clarity comes
·
Abrahamic tradition did not fully
develop the concept of Karma
·
It speaks of it in a world to come
·
Where is God
·
Free will is a packaged deal
·
We are caretakers of the children
·
Where are God’s people
·
We have moral responsibility
·
Atheist is closer to God
·
For Believers God sometimes
becomes an errand boy
·
Taking Responsibility
·
Adam took responsibility
·
Satan did not take responsibility