📘 ❞ The Etiquette of Seeking Knowledge ❝ كتاب ــ بكر بن عبدالله أبو زيد

عن كتاب The Etiquette of Seeking Knowledge:
Translator’s Foreword

All praise is due to Allaah alone; we praise Him, seek His aid and
seek His forgiveness. We seek refuge in Him from the evil of our
inner-selves and the evil of our actions. Whomsoever Allaah guides
no one can misguide and whomsoever Allaah misguides no one can
guide. I bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship except
Allaah and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and messen­
ger.

O mankind! Be dutiful to your Lord, Who created you from a
single person and from him He created his wife and from them
both He created m any men and women; and fear A llaah
through whom you demand (your mutual rights), and (do not
cut the relations, of) the wombs (kinship), Surely* Allaah is Ever
an All-Watcher over you.

“O you who believe! Keep your duty to Allaah and fear Him,
and speak always the truth. He will direct you to do righteous
good deeds and will forgive you your sins. And whosoever obeys
Allaah and His m essenger he has indeed achieved a great
achievement

Translator’s Foreword
All praise is due to Allaah alone; we praise Him, seek His aid and
seek His forgiveness. We seek refuge in Him from the evil of our
inner-selves and the evil of our actions. Whomsoever Allaah guides
no one can misguide and whomsoever Allaah misguides no one can
guide. I bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship except
Allaah and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and messen­
ger.
“O you who believe! Fear Allaah as He should be feared, and
die not except in a state of Islaam.

“O you who believe! Keep your duty to Allaah and fear Him,
and speak always the truth. He will direct you to do righteous
good deeds and will forgive you your sins. And whosoever obeys
Allaah and His m essenger he has indeed achieved a great
achievement.”
[Soorah al-Ahzaab (33):70-71 ]
To proceed: Today we are generally witnessing an Islaamic awak­
ening as we see the Muslims re-uniting with their Islaamic identity
that they had lost for so many years, and the situation is as Allaah
described it by saying:

“O you who believe! Keep your duty to Allaah and fear Him,
and speak always the truth. He will direct you to do righteous
good deeds and will forgive you your sins. And whosoever obeys
Allaah and His m essenger he has indeed achieved a great
achievement.”
[Soorah al-Ahzaab (33):70-71 ]
To proceed: Today we are generally witnessing an Islaamic awak­
ening as we see the Muslims re-uniting with their Islaamic identity
that they had lost for so many years, and the situation is as Allaah
described it by saying:
“Is he who is dead and We gave him life and set for him a light
whereby he can walk amongst men; like him who is in the dark­
ness never to emerge therefrom?

... to adorn oneself with beautiful etiquette, noble manners, good behaviour, and pious conduct are distinguishing characteristics of the people of Islam, and knowledge the most precious pearl in the crown of the purified Shariah cannot be attained except by those who adorn themselves with its etiquette and those who leave evil qualities associated to it. For this reason the scholars devoted their attention to this etiquette, outlined its importance and wrote books solely on this topic either pertaining to general conduct with all types of knowledge or to specific types of knowledge such as the etiquette of the carriers of the Noble Quran, the etiquette of the muhaddith, the etiquette of the mufti, the etiquette of the qazi judge , the etiquette of the muhtasib the one who enjoins good and forbids evil for the sake of Allah and so on. The issue of this book is the general conduct of those who take the path of seeking the knowledge of the Sharee’ah.