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Scientists

The scourge of vanity and delusion

Mohamed Elsawy, Second Level, Economics

A boy from the Arabs met the poet Abu Ala Al- The problem, then, is that whoever thinks that he has
Maari, and said to him: Who are you, Sheikh ?! approached but has reached the point of knowledge,
He said: Abu Al-Alaa is your well-known poet. then he has reached only the point of vanity, and he is
Then the boy said: Welcome to the poet stallion, deceived but lost, so vanity is still the scourge of
are you the one who said in your poetry: knowledge. You find that every genius - or he thinks
For if I was the last of his time .. to do what the himself as well - makes his genius the only barometer
first ones could not? of genius! For example, someone who was a genius in

Abu Al-Alaa said: Yes, I am the one who said mathematics thinks that those without it are stupid, or
this, and why? someone who has a degree in science thinks that all
The boy said: A good saying, self-confidence, people are ignorant until they learn his science. The
and a proud of competence and ability, but the problem, then, is that whoever thinks that he has
leaders put twenty-eight letters for the spelling, approached but has reached the point of knowledge,
then he has reached only the point of vanity, and he is
so can you add one letter to it? deceived but lost, so vanity is still the scourge of

The Almighty said in the Holy Quran: {And knowledge. You find that every genius - or he thinks
mankind have not been given of knowledge himself as well - makes his genius the only barometer
except a little} [Al-Israa-85], All that a person of genius! For example, someone who was a genius in
has produced of knowledge, God willing, is a mathematics thinks that those without it are stupid, or
small amount, and all that a person acquires is a someone who has a degree in science thinks that all
little bit of a little, as if he ascends a ladder to the people are ignorant until they learn his science.

sky and thinks that his sight is the end of the In addition to the scourge of vanity, the scourge of
stairs, or as if it is between two areas of delusion, for this little knowledge that blinds the sight
attraction and turn! Whenever he is freed from and the mind is either for what was created for it. An
ignorance, knowledge is repelled, and what he argument for God against the servant, or for a wrong
thinks is the end point is nothing but a new argument to use as evidence against God! Allah says:
starting point, and if it is permissible to say that { Allah witnesses that there is no deity except Him,
knowledge is something that increases, it and [so do] the angels and those of knowledge - [that

decreases! Whenever you know something, you He is] maintaining [creation] in justice. There is no
will know that things have been missing from deity except Him, the Exalted in Might, the Wise.} [
you! Then what you have acquired from Al-i-Imran – 18 ], And : { Who remember Allah while
knowledge that is closer to analogy than that of standing or sitting or [lying] on their sides and give
ignorance, the world is estimated only by the thought to the creation of the heavens and the earth,
extent of its distance from the point of ignorance [saying], "Our Lord, You did not create this aimlessly;
rather than its approach to the point of exalted are You [above such a thing]; then protect us
from the punishment of the Fire} [ Al-i-Imran – 191],
knowledge.

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