“Hyderabad ni Masjid ghana mushkil marahala na baad bani che.”(Mafhoom) Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin (TUS).

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Amerul Mumeneen Moulana Ali Ibnay Moulana AbiTalib(SA) said About Knowledge and Wisdom.
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Kumayl bin Ziyad Nakha'i says that once Amerul Mumeneen Moulana Ali(SA) put his hand in his hand and took me to
the grave-yard. When he passed through it and left the city behind, he heaved a sigh
and said "Kumayl, these hearts are containers of the secrets of knowledge and wisdom and
the best container is the one which can hold the most and what it holds, it can preserve and protect in the best way.
Therefore, remember carefully what I am telling you. Remember that there are three kinds of people:
one kind is of those learned people who are highly versed in the ethics of truth and philosophy of religion,
second is the kind of those who are acquiring the above knowledge
and the third is that class of people who are uneducated. They follow every pretender and accept every slogan,
they have neither acquired any knowledge nor have they secured any support of firm and rational convictions.
Remember, Kumayl, knowledge is better than wealth because it protects you while you have to guard wealth.
It decreases if you keep on spending it but the more you make use of knowledge the more it increases.
What you get through wealth dis- appears as soon as wealth disappears but what you achieve through knowledge will
remain even after you.
O Kumayl ! Knowledge is power and it can command obedience.
A man of knowledge during his lifetime can make people obey and follow him and he is praised and venerated after his
death. Remember that knowledge is a ruler and wealth is its subject.
O Kumayl ! Those who amass wealth, though alive, are dead to realities of life, and those who achieve know- ledge,
will remain alive through their knowledge and wisdom even after their death, though their faces may disappear from
the community of living beings, yet their ideas, the knowledge which they had left behind and their memory, will remain
in the minds of people".
Kumayl says that after this brief dissertation, Moulana Ali(SA) pointed towards his chest and said, "Look Kumayl!
Here I hold stores and treasures of knowledge. I wish I could find somebody to share it with me. Yes, I found a few,
but one of them, though quite intelligent, was untrustworthy, he would sell his salvation to get hold of the world
and its pleasures, he would make religion a pretence to grasp worldly power and wealth, he would make this Blessing of
Allah (knowledge) serve him to get supremacy and control over friends of Allah and he would through knowledge exploit
and suppress other human beings.
The other person was such that he apparently obeyed truth and knowledge, yet his mind had not achieved the true light of
religion, at the slightest ambiguity or doubt he would get suspicious of truth, mistrust religion and would rush
towards skepticism. So neither of them was capable of acquiring the superior knowledge that I can impart.
Besides these two I find some other person One of them is a slave of self and greedy for inordinate desires,
which can easily drag him away from the path of religion, the other is an avaricious, grasping and acquisitive miser
who will risk his life to grasp and hold wealth, none of these two will be of any use to religion or man, both of
them resemble beasts having appetite for food.
If sensible trustees of knowledge and wisdom totally disappear from human society then both knowledge and wisdom will
suffer severely, may bring harm to humanity and may even die out. But this earth will never be without those persons
who will prove the universality of truth as disclosed by Allah, they may be well-known persons, openly and fearlessly
declaring the things revealed to them or they may, under fear of harm, injury or deaths hide themselves from the public
gaze and may carry on their mission privately so that the reasons proving the reality of truth as preached by religion
and as demonstrated by His Prophet may not totally disappear. How many are they and where could they be found?
I swear by Allah that they are very few in number but their worth and their ranks before Allah are very high.
Through them Allah preserves His Guidance so that they, while departing, may hand over these truths to persons like
themselves. The knowledge which they have acquired has made them see the realities and visualize the truth and has
instilled into them the spirit of faith and trust. The duties which were decreed as hard and unbearable by them.
They feel happy in the company and association of things which frighten the ignorant and uneducated.
They live in this world like everybody else but their souls soar to the heights of Divine Eminence.
They are media of Allah on this earth and they invite people towards Him. How I love to meet them O Kumayl !
I have told you all that I have to say, you can go back to your place whenever you like".

Posted in Badre Muneer Zilhaj 1432 H Issue

by Khidmaat by Amat-e-Syedna(TUS)Nafeesa Mu.HassanRasheed..Hyderabad.

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