Muslim scholars have divided acquiring of knowledge in three categories:

1. Knowledge for the sake of God (ilm bara-e-Khuda)
2. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge (ilm bara-e-ilm)
3. Knowledge for the sake of wealth (ilm bar-e-maal)


In the West the knowledge is for the sake of knowledge itself, while we instead of having it for God i.e. considering is at our utmost duty, are merely acquiring it for the sake of money. So what we get in return might be good pays but we are unable to contribute towards the advancement of knowledge itself; the way to gain edge over others.

Knowledge is the standard on which Allah SWT has based the glory of nations and people. Allah is not unjust so who will attain it will get the due return. No matter they are Jews, Christians or some one else

Muslims have seen the glorious period of about thousand years and that was in fact an era of knowledge development and scientific research by Muslims.

Another wrong approach adopted by us is; we don’t take knowledge as knowledge in itself, we have made so called COHERENT compartmentalisations of knowledge. There was a period in Islam when every child in the Madrassas had to take Ilm-e-haiyat (Physics), Ilm-e-hindsa (Mathematics) and Ilm-e-falkiat (Cosmology) as compulsory subjects. But with the passage of time we have made complete ignorance of scientific knowledge as a perquisite for students of religion itself. In this way the Ullmahs, who are to deal with most sensitive and important matters are made the most ignorant.


In Israel they have devised a whole system for proper allocation of human resource to different fields. The most intelligent and brilliant students go for religion, the second category go for politics, the third for bureaucracy and still others for technical fields like medicine or engineering. They consider the technical fields less important and say that even an average person is suitable for them since it is less critical. (This division is particular to Israel not the West).

We on the other hand have reversed this order. The most brilliant students go for technical fields. Those who are unable to attain merit or those who find science subject too difficult go for humanities and from this comes a prominent proportion of our bureaucracy. This is not to offend anyone but is a general observation how is it working at the country level. After bureaucracy we have politicians who come from further lower academic backgrounds. And at the very end we have our religious scholars.

In this way we get people far lower in their competencies then those who are controlled by them. The bureaucracy overall controls other systems and is in turn controlled by politicians. Then there are religious scholars who are there to challenge each and every decision by politicians without even having any know-how in most of the cases.

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