WHAT IS ILM (KNOWLEDGE)?
Humans can proudly boost about knowledge as greatest power and treasure and make it compulsory for everyone. Even the traditional religious group makes it fardh (mandatory.)
Everyone derive benefit from knowledge and practically no one can do without it.
But have we ever asked what is ILM by itself, what is knowledge itself?
You consider ILM (Knowledge) your par excellence, but in reality this is not so.
Know that ALLAH created everything, matter and nonmatter, physical and nonphysical, reality and imagination, evident and non-evident. As a created beings, everything exists as such and they just exist. A huge domain, an expanse, a higher level of pure existence. No relation, no cause or no effects related to each other but cause exist independent of effect and effects exist independently of causes. All the things are free floating with readiness and looking toward God for command and they do as commanded.
Angels have access to this level but they do not fix them or relate these things to each other so they don’t process ILM at this level. This becomes there station of not knowing, no fixtures, -place of NOKNOWLEDGE. ( لا علم لنا )
Hence the highest station of NOKNOWLEDGE exists, and people with knowledge cannot get into it while having the knowledge, or they will have to sacrifice their knowledge and give it up. Don’t you see that this is the reason why Allah is UNKNOWABLE, ALLAH cannot be converted into fixtures and if you do so and fix HIS shape or form you are considered Mushrik. Also to meet Allah you will have to cross this level of NOKNOWLEDGE where you will be stripped off your knowledge and only then you can see the REAL. If you are in doubt about this don’t you see how many previous generations of humans have been lost along with their knowledge and what they used to fixate, there knowledge lost to us and as new generation we start all over with new knowledge.
Then you may ask that we are better off with no knowledge!
While this level exist and is real you are not at this level since the fall of ADAM.
At this level Allah has ordered you to fix things as per their right or HAQQ and not as per your wishes or demand. And this is the reason HE has provided you with HIS name- AL-ALEEM.
So it’s like that you have to know and acquire knowledge and you don’t have to know to cross the world of NOKNOWLEDGE.
This may seem contradictory but it is not. Gnostics (Arifeen) take knowledge as any other created being, nothing that belongs to them but belongs to HIM, so they give it away as you give away your money or any other item. Despite knowing they don’t make fixtures and let all things pass by giving their due or right as they appear and fade away in an endless sea of NOKNOWLEDGE.
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