🤲Spiritual Refinement, Manners & Remembrance
Interested in reading and seeking knowledge
المشوق إلى القراءة وطلب العلم
Author: علي بن محمد بن حسين العِمران
About this work
المشوق إلى القراءة وطلب العلم لعلي العمران هو رسالة أدبية تُعنى بحث القارئ على السعي إلى العلم والقراءة، وتستعرض شرف العلم ومكانته في التراث الإسلامي وتبين أسباب تراجع الطلبة عن القراءة وتأثير الواقع على ذلك. يتناول الكتاب أمثلة من سيرة العلماء وعشّاق العلم، ويستند إلى أقوال السلف وإشارات قرآنية لتأكيد أهمية الاستزادة من المعرفة. تصنّفه ضمن الرقاق والآداب والأذكار، ما يبرز طابعه الأخلاقي واللغوي في توجيه الهمم نحو التوسّع المعرفي.
Translation
Interesting in reading and seeking knowledge by Ali Al-Omran is a literary treatise concerned with urging the reader to seek knowledge and reading. It reviews the honor of knowledge and its place in the Islamic heritage and shows the reasons for students’ retreat from reading and the impact of reality on that. The book covers examples from the biographies of scholars and science enthusiasts, and is based on the sayings of the predecessors and Qur’anic references to emphasize the importance of increasing knowledge. It is classified as rituals, etiquette, and remembrance, which highlights its moral and linguistic character in directing people toward cognitive expansion.
Topics covered
- Introduction to the second edition
- Introduction to the first edition
- What the message is about and what it will reveal
- Science lovers
- The honor of knowledge and its high status
- The motivation for classifying the message
- Students’ reluctance to read and its reasons
- Reality pressure and its impact on the consideration of titles
- Stirring up enthusiasm and determination
- Our enormous wealth of heritage and the duty of scholars towards it
- How to preserve this wealth?
- Weakness in reading and its impact on heritage
- Thesis chapters
- Chapter One: On urging people to increase their knowledge and explore it
- The revelation of “Read in the name of your Lord...” and what it contains
- The Prophet - may God bless him and grant him peace - commanded the increase in knowledge
- There is benefit in his saying: “And say, ‘My Lord, increase me in knowledge
- Something like the situation of the Companions in increasing it
- Something that came from the predecessors
- The breadth of knowledge of Sheikh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah
- Scientists know sciences that people of their time do not know
- There is no conviction in science and the benefit of it
- Verses about not being limited to art
- Increasing knowledge even in the hour of death
- A brief summary of the hadith: “Two insatiable people.”
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