When Jibril, aliyyhi as-Salam, asks the Prophet, sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam, about the Hour (the Day of Judgement), the Prophet, sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam, replies that neither he nor Jibril knows the answer. This is an example set by the Prophet, sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam, where even someone with vast knowledge like himself does not know everything and admits so.
Al-Imam Malik was asked forty questions by someone and to most of them he answered “I
don’t know – Allah knows better”. The man was surprised that the great Imam Malik didn’t
know the answers. Seeing the man surprised, Imam Malik told him that when he goes back to
his town, to tell the people that he met and asked al-Imam Malik questions and Imam Malik said he didn’t know the answers. Al-Imam Malik didn’t want to be accountable for giving wrong
answers. Thus, if we are to become an educator or a scholar, we should have the courage to
admit what we do not know. We should not give an answer which may contain incorrect
information.The signs of Akhirah mentioned in this hadith are minor signs, as opposed to major ones. We believe in these signs but we should not worry about them too much – we should not worry about when these signs will occur. We should actually be careful as some of these signs are bad deeds and we must steer away from these bad deeds.
Conclusion
This hadith contains everything about Islam: the five pillars of Islam, the beliefs that make up
Iman (including the belief of fate or qadar), the attainment of the highest level of Iman which is
Ihsan, the adab of seeking knowledge and of teaching.
Hope these evidences are enough to satisfy you. If you think they are not still enough, follow me keenly and get before you other equally thirst quenching evidences about the subject. In fact you can even educate others about it better than I’m doing. Be concerned about what concerns you yet seek knowledge, for ignorance is a prison wherein the inmates are those who are reluctant when it comes to seeking knowledge. When you learn, you lead others aright and save them from captivity.
But you don’t just learn anything, you seek beneficial knowledge and wisdom from the right sources with the proper ethics. Look for the write up on ethics of seeking knowledge. And as usual, when you sleep over the bed of heedlessness in your youth, then be sure to tread on the path of regret during old age. Let me hasten to reiterate that seeking knowledge frees you from the captivity and prison of ignorance and darkness. So my good friends, brothers and sisters in Islam, seek beneficial knowledge and wisdom with the correct ethics, aiming to benefit society with the knowledge and hoping for reward from the Almighty Allah. Laziness is very attractive to ignorance, so wherever there is laziness in the quest for knowledge, be certain to find ignorance married happily to Mr. laziness, making a perfect couple with darkness as their residence.
Never be too proud to admit your Ignorance, after all for every knowledgeable person, there is someone more knowledgeable and the owner of perfect and complete knowledge is the distributor of knowledge; Allah.
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