Knowledge that harms
Al-Risala (English), July-August 1993, p. 7
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.
Knowledge that harms
1993 7-8 July-August 7 Knowledge that harms (193) The Prophet Muhammad said: “Even more than the Great Deceiver, (Dajjal) it is from others that I fear for you.” The Prophet was asked. Who they were and he replied: “Wicked men of learning.” On another occasion, the Prophet said: “He who increases his learning, but does not increase in guidance, will only become further away from God.” Likewise, the Prophet said: “The one who will receive the severest punishment on the Day of Resurrection is a man of learning whom God has not benefited through his learning.” “On the night when I was taken to the heavens,” recalled the Prophet Muhammad, “I passed some people whose lips were being cut with scissors of fire. ‘Who are you?’ I asked, and they replied: ‘We are the ones who used to command good, but we ourselves did not practice it; and we used to forbid evil, while ourselves practicing it.” This prayer was often on the Prophet’s lips: ‘Lord, I seek refuge with You from knowledge which does not benefit, from a heart which has no fear; from actions which are not lifted up to heaven and from a prayer which is not heard.’
