What Knowledge Is and What It Isn’t
Ibn Al-Qayyim, may Allāh have mercy on him, said:
العِـلْمُ قال اللهُ قال رَسُولُـه ** قال الصَّحابَةُ هم أُولُو العِرْفانِ
ما العلمُ نَصْبُكَ للخِلافِ سفاهةً ** بين الرَّسولِ وبينَ رأيِ فُلانِ
Knowledge is what Allāh said,
what His Messenger said;
what the Companions said–
they’re the ones who had knowledge.Knowledge isn’t your foolishly
showing the disagreement,
Between the Messenger
and so-and-so’s opinion.
Al-Nūniyyah