Adab

📖 Adab of Seeking Knowledge

Knowledge is light — its adab guards it in the heart.

  1. 1.

    Purify the intention — seek the Face of Allāh, not status.

    Abū Dāwūd 3664

  2. 2.

    Begin with the Name of your Lord who created.

    Qurʾān 96:1

  3. 3.

    Respect the teacher; ‘Whoever teaches me a letter, I am his slave.’

    ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib

  4. 4.

    Act on what you learn — knowledge without action is like a tree without fruit.

    Al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī

  5. 5.

    Say ‘Rabbi zidnī ʿilman’ — my Lord, increase me in knowledge.

    Qurʾān 20:114