| Sincere Counsel To The Students Of Sacred Knowledge |
| Ibn Al-Jawzi |
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Sincere counsel to the students of sacred knowledge being a translation of his ‘laft al-kabid ila nasiha al walad’
SINCERE COUNSEL TO THE STUDENTS OF SACRED KNOWLEDGE
Fear Allah and He Shall Teach You
Observe, my son, the way you deal with the limits of Allah and see how you can keep yourself within their bounds. Indeed, he who takes care of these limits is taken care of; and he who doesn’t, is left to himself.
I shall pow mention some of my experiences to you so that you may observe my striving and ask the Granter of success to bless me.
Truly, most of the blessings I have been given have not been earned by me but rather they are conferred as a result of the planning of The Gentle One alone.
I remember myself as a child: A highly motivated six-year-old sitting in class with older boys. The intellect I had been given superseded that of old men. I do not recall myself playing on the road with other kids or ever laughing out loud
When I was seven or so, I attended the gatherings in the Masjid. I would not sit in a circle of mere wordplay, but searched for a Hadith scholar who would narrate about the Prophet’s life.
I would memorize everything he said, then go back home and write it down. I was blessed for being granted my teacher Abu al-Fadl ibn Nasir, may Allah bestow His Mercy upon him, who would take me to different scholars and let me hear the Musnad [of Imam Ahmad] and other major works. All this time I had no idea of
why I was made to do these things. My teacher recorded all I had heard, and when I reached puberty he handed me this record. I accompanied him till his death, and through him I learned the science of Hadith and transmission.
The kids used to go down to Tigris River and play on the bridge, but when I was small, I used to take a book and sit far from people by the shore studying Sacred Knowledge
Then I was inspired to abandon the vanities of this world so I began constant fasting and reduced my food intake to very little.
I trained myself to be patient, embarking on a continuous pursuit in order to do so and staying up at night. I didn’t feel satisfied with studying just one science so I read jurisprudence, sermon delivery and Hadith and followed those who practiced zuhd (as-
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