🤲Spiritual Refinement, Manners & Remembrance

Ethics of scientists

أخلاق العلماء

Author: أبو بكر محمد بن الحسين بن عبد الله الآجُرِّيُّ البغدادي (المتوفى: 360هـ) (d. 360)

About this work

كتاب «أخلاق العلماء» للآجري يندرج ضمن فئة الرقاق والآداب والأذكار، ويُعنى بوصف سلوكيات العلماء وصفاتهم الأخلاقية في طلب العلم ومقابلة العلماء ومجالستهم، إضافة إلى استعراض فضلهم في الدنيا والآخرة. يتضمن الكتاب فصولًا تتناول أوصاف العلماء المستفيدين من علم الله، وصفاتهم في طلب العلم، ومقابلتهم للعلماء، وكذلك سلوكهم مع غيرهم من الخلق، ويختتم بذكر سؤال الله لأهل العلم عن عملهم بالعلم. يهدف النص إلى إظهار مكانة العلماء وأثر أخلاقهم في توجيه الناس وتعزيز الفهم الديني.

Translation

The book “The Ethics of Scholars” by Al-Ajri falls within the category of Al-Riqaq, Etiquette, and Remembrances, and is concerned with describing the behavior of scholars and their moral qualities in seeking knowledge, meeting scholars, and sitting with them, in addition to reviewing their virtue in this world and the hereafter. The book includes chapters that address descriptions of the scholars who benefit from God’s knowledge, their characteristics in seeking knowledge, their encounters with scholars, as well as their behavior with other people. It concludes by mentioning God’s question to the people of knowledge about their work with knowledge. The text aims to show the status of scholars and the impact of their morals in guiding people and promoting religious understanding.

Topics covered

Ethics of scholars according to Al-Ajri
He mentioned his characteristic of seeking knowledge
He mentioned his description in his walk to the scholars
The nature of his sitting with scholars
Its characteristic if it is known by knowledge
Mention the characteristic of this world
Mentioning the morals of this world and its interactions with those of all creation who associate with it
He mentioned God’s question to the people of knowledge about their knowledge and what they did with it
The book of morals of the ignorant scholar who is fascinated by his knowledge
Describing those whom God has not benefited with knowledge

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