Adab
📖 Adab of Seeking Knowledge
Knowledge is light — its adab guards it in the heart.
- 1.
Purify the intention — seek the Face of Allāh, not status.
Abū Dāwūd 3664
- 2.
Begin with the Name of your Lord who created.
Qurʾān 96:1
- 3.
Respect the teacher; ‘Whoever teaches me a letter, I am his slave.’
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib
- 4.
Act on what you learn — knowledge without action is like a tree without fruit.
Al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī
- 5.
Say ‘Rabbi zidnī ʿilman’ — my Lord, increase me in knowledge.
Qurʾān 20:114