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#1 [Permalink] Posted on 24th April 2014 01:08
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al-Khalīl b. Aḥmad remarked,

There are four types of men:

➊ One who knows and knows he knows; he is learned, so follow him!

➋ One who knows and knows not that he knows; he is asleep, so wake him!

➌ One who knows not and knows he knows not; he seeks to learn, so teach him!

➍ One who knows not and knows not that he knows not; he is a fool, so shun him!

≈ (Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, Jāmiʿ bayān al-ʿilm wa faḍlihi, no. 1538 [Saudi Arabia: Dār Ibn al-Jawzī, 1994]; al-Ghazzālī, Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn, 1:220 [Riyādh: Dār al-Minhāj, 2011])
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“Nothing is more precious than knowledge; while kings rule over men, they are ruled by the learned.”
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#2 [Permalink] Posted on 24th April 2014 15:14
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ibnulqayyim wrote:
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Good stuff. A bit of a tongue twister saying it all though!
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