Sincerity in
seeking knowledge is by making the following intentions:
First: Let your intention in seeking knowledge be to comply with the
order of Allaah, because Allaah has enjoined that. He said: “So know, [O Muhammad], that there is no deity except Allaah
and ask forgiveness for your sin…” [Soorah Muhammad: 19]. Allah the exalted has exhorted seeking knowledge and an
exhortation towards something necessitates that He loves it, approves of it and
enjoins it.
Second: Your intention should [also] be to preserve the Sharee’ah
of Allaah, because preservation of the Sharee’ah of Allaah is through learning
and retention in the chest as well as through writing.
Third: Let your intention be to protect and defend the
Sharee’ah, because if not for the scholars, no one would have protected and
defended the Sharee’ah. That was why the likes of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah
and others among the people of knowledge checked the people of innovations and
clarified the futility of their call. We believe that they have attained
abundant good [on account of that].
Fourth: [Further], your intention should also be to follow
the Sharee’ah of Muhammad (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) because it is impossible
to follow his Sharee’ah unless you know this Sharee’ah.
Fifth: Finally, your intention in seeking knowledge should be
to remove ignorance from yourself and others.
Source:
Kitaab al-‘Ilm, p. 130-131 by Shaykh Muhammad bin Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen
(may Allaah have mercy on him)
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