Peer o Mureed: The Teacher and the Student

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The question by Allama Iqbal:

Discerning eyes bleed in pain;
For faith is ruined by knowledge in this age.

Explanation of the Stanza: The discerning eye (the eye which recognizes the reality) is bleeding because the knowledge of the current age has ruined the faith. Please tell me, what is the solution to this?

The answer by Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi: 

Fling it on the body, and knowledge becomes a serpent;
Fling it on the heart and it becomes a friend.

Explanation of the stanza: 
If you will use knowledge to use it for the decoration of your body, then it will bite you like a snake, but if you will use knowledge for discovering yourself and for improving your inner self, then knowledge will be like a gentle friend for you in your whole life.

Meaning knowledge should not be used for showing off, but it should be used for improving yourself from your heart, soul and brain. If Muslims use the knowledge of the west(secular knowledge as they call it), then it’ll become a source of mercy for the humanity, a source of peace for the humanity. The dilemma is the knowledge and research of the west is used badly, in a negative manner, in a neglectful manner. Hence, it has been the source of trouble for the religion, for the faith today, and the religious scholar today are even cursing these knowledge
A message by Iqbal to today’s youth that if you’ll always observe intellectual humility and always use knowledge for improving your inner self, your heart, the khudi that Allama Iqbal usually talks about, then it will be better for you and for the humanity as a whole.

Comments

  1. UniJanuary 25, 2011 at 12:49 PM

    Wow!
    I never knew that. JazakAllah for sharing.

    This is so very true. Knowledge to increase one's intellectual humility!

    In today's world... intellect, and humility do NOT go together... :( Sadly!

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 25, 2011 at 5:49 PM

    nice message..its sad that we dnt read iqbal now a days..

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  3. UnknownJanuary 27, 2011 at 3:24 PM

    Very good read.

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  4. NoorJanuary 28, 2011 at 4:33 PM

    I love this conversation! :)

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  5. Faizan ChakiJanuary 28, 2011 at 5:38 PM

    @Noor jee:it's one of the long poems in Kalam-e-Iqbal and really very informative :)

    @Uni jee: well yes sadly. Today knowledge is used for making money, that's it's sole purpose rather than the Islamic purpose i.e. to increase oneself in the fear of ALLAH.

    @Majworld: yes it is, we don't read the Quran, let alone Iqbal.

    @Sychh: JAZAKALLAH for the appreciation :)

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  6. nimraFebruary 5, 2011 at 1:41 AM

    true.

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  7. Faizan ChakiFebruary 6, 2011 at 5:36 PM

    :)

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  8. nimraFebruary 27, 2011 at 2:14 AM

    ~ ilm rabar zani tan maaray bood ,
    ilm rabar zani man yaaray bood. ~

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