‘Alee bin Abee Taalib (may Allah be pleased with him) said:
“Knowledge increases by spending while wealth decreases by spending.” Whenever
a scholar offers his knowledge to the people and spends from it, its spring
will gush forth thereby growing in abundance, strength and visibility. Through
his teaching, he will gain the preservation of what he had learnt and acquire
the knowledge he does not previously possess. An issue may be unclear to the
scholar or within the scope of complication, but when he talks about it and
teaches it, it may become clear and simplified to him, which may open up other
forms of knowledge to him.
In addition, the reward for an
action is from the type of action; just as he taught the people what they did
not know, Allah will reward him by teaching him what he did not know. The proof
is contained in Saheeh Muslim from the hadeeth of ‘Iyaad bin Himaar who reported
that the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) said in a lengthy hadeeth: “Allah
said to me, ‘Spend I will spend upon you.”[1] This includes
spending knowledge by conveying it, awakening it or mentioning its essence.
There are two paths to the growth
and development of knowledge: the first is by teaching it and the second is
acting upon it. Indeed, acting upon it will also cause it to grow, increase it
and open its doors and its hidden assets for the one acting upon it. This is
because teaching it and acting upon it is trading in it; just as wealth grows
by trading with it, the same is applicable to knowledge.
Source: Miftaah Daar as-Sa’aadah wa Manshoor Wilaayah Ahl
al-‘Ilm wal-Iraadah by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah. Translated by Abdus-Samee Abdus-Salaam.
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