If you Are Impressed by Your Own Knowledge

If you Are Impressed by Your Own Knowledge, Then Know That you Have No Portion of it And it is All Nothing But a Gift, Gifted by ALLĀH ﷻ, the Most High, to You.

وَإِن أعجبت بعلمك فَاعْلَم أَنه لَا خصْلَة لَك فِيهِ وَأَنه موهبة من الله مُجَرّدَة وهبك إِيَّاهَا رَبك تَعَالَى

So, do Not Meet That Gift With That Which Displeases and Angers ALLĀH ﷻ. It May Be That He Causes You to Forget All That Knowledge Due to A Deficiency or Shortcoming Within you That He Tests You With Which Results in You Forgetting All That Which you Have Learned And Memorized.

فَلَا تقَابلهَا بِمَا يسخطه فَلَعَلَّهُ ينسيك ذَلِك بعلة يمتحنك بهَا تولد عَلَيْك نِسْيَان مَا علمت وحفظت

Ibn Ḥazm, al-Akhlāq wa ʾl-Siyar fī Mudāwāh al-Nufūs

 

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