develop the importance of Islamic knowledge in the heart and also incline our children, relatives and friends to gain Islamic knowledge. The Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has said:

1.         The person, who leaves [his home] to gain Islamic knowledge, is in the way of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ until he returns. (Sunan-ut-Tirmizi, vol. 4, pp. 294, Raqm 2656)

2.         The one who learns one or two or three or four or five Kalimat [i.e. words] about the Faraaid [obligatory acts] of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ and memorizes them properly, and then teaches them to people, will enter Paradise.

(Attargheeb Wattarheeb, vol. 1, pp. 54, Hadees 20)

3.         Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ will resurrect bondmen on the Judgement Day. He عَزَّوَجَلَّ then will separate Islamic scholars and say to them: O the group of Islamic scholars! I know you that’s why I bestowed knowledge upon you, and [I] did not give you knowledge for making you suffer torment. Go! I have forgiven you. (Jami’ Bayan-ul-‘Ilm-o-Fazlah, pp. 69, Hadees 211)

Dear Islamic brothers! It has been understood from the above-mentioned blessed Ahadees that gaining Islamic knowledge is the cause of pleasing  Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ, source of forgiveness and salvation and a guarantee of entering Paradise. سُـبْحٰـنَ الـلّٰــه عَزَّوَجَلَّ, how great the virtues of Islamic knowledge are! ‘Allamah Maulana Mufti Muhammad Amjad ‘Ali A’zami رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has said: Knowledge is not something whose excellence and virtues need to be mentioned. The whole world knows that knowledge is something much better, and gaining it is a sign of eminence. It is the thing through which human life becomes successful and pleasant; it is the thing that makes the world and the Hereafter better. This knowledge means the knowledge that is gained from the Holy Quran and Hadees. It is the knowledge that makes the world and the Hereafter both better. It is the knowledge that brings about salvation and it is the same knowledge that has been praised in the Holy Quran and blessed Ahadees and our attention has been focused on its education.

(Bahar-e-Shari’at, vol. 3, pp. 618)