🤲Spiritual Refinement, Manners & Remembrance
The literature of request and the utmost literature
أدب الطلب ومنتهى الأدب
Author: محمد بن علي بن محمد بن عبد الله الشوكاني اليمني (المتوفى: 1250هـ) (d. 1250)
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كتاب «أدب الطلب ومنتهى الأدب» للشيخ الشوكاني يصنّف ضمن الرقاق والآداب والأذكار، ويتناول فيه ضوابط سلوك طالب العلم من حيث الإخلاص لله والابتعاد عن التحيز والعرق والالتزام بالإنصاف والاجتهاد. يطرح المؤلف أسباب التعصب والآفات التي قد تصيب الشيوخ والتلاميذ، ويقترح سُبلًا لمعالجة هذه المشكلات وتحقيق طلب العلم بنقاء النية وموضوعية العرض.
Translation
The book “The Etiquette of Seeking and Utmost Literature” by Sheikh Al-Shawkani is classified under Al-Riqaq, Etiquette, and Remembrance, and it deals with the controls of the behavior of the seeker of knowledge in terms of devotion to God, staying away from bias and race, and commitment to fairness and diligence. The author presents the causes of fanaticism and the ills that may affect elders and students, and suggests ways to address these problems and achieve the pursuit of knowledge with purity of intention and objectivity of presentation.
Topics covered
- Duties of the student
- Sincerity of intention to God
- In order to acquire religious knowledge
- Avoid bias and sin
- Seek fairness
- Setting oneself up for research and diligence
- Al-Shawkani’s experience with ijtihad
- The reasons that lead to distance from the truth and fanaticism
- Growing up in a country affiliated with a certain doctrine
- Love of honor and money
- Arguing, hypocrisy, and love of showing off
- Love of kinship and fanaticism for ancestors
- Difficulty returning to the truth because it says otherwise
- The competitor speaking the truth is young in age or status
- Pests of elders and students
- Treatment of intolerance
- The dire consequences of intolerance and straying from the truth
- Return to the causes of intolerance
- Relying on presumptive rules
- Lack of objectivity in presenting opponents’ arguments
- Competition among peers
- The reasons that lead to distance from the truth and intolerance
- Arguing, hypocrisy, and the love of victory and appearance
- Difficulty returning to the truth that says otherwise
- The competitor speaking the truth must be young in age or status
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