Chapter Seven: Concerning the Knowledge of what has been Narrated regarding the Exhortation to Seek Knowledge.
God, blessed and exalted, said:
{"That they may gain understanding in the religion and warn their people when they return to them, that they might be cautious."} 1
[29] And the Prophet, may His might be glorified, said: "The virtue of knowledge is more beloved to me than the virtue of worship."
[30] And the Prophet, may His might be glorified, said: "Indeed, the virtue of a scholar over a worshipper is like the virtue of the moon over the stars."
[31] And our Master, the commander of bees, may His might be glorified, said: "Learn knowledge, for learning it is a good deed, seeking it is an act of worship, discussing it is
Footnotes
1(Quran, Surah At-Tawbah, verse 122)




