Dear believers

Alsalamu Alaikum

One of the distinctive features of Islam is its emphasis on knowledge. The Quran and the Islamic tradition (sunnah) invite Muslims to seek and acquire knowledge and wisdom and to hold men of knowledge in high esteem.

In the Holy Quran the word al-Ilm, knowledge, and its derivatives are used more than 780 times. The first few verses that were revealed to our Holy Prophet (SAW) mention the importance of reading, pen, and teaching for human beings:

Read: in the name of your Lord who created. He created man from something which clings. Read and your Lord is the most generous. Who taught with pen. Taught man what he knew not..." (96:1-5)

In the Islamic traditions, too, there are many words of praise for knowledge and the learned.

•It is an obligation for every Muslim to seek knowledge.
•Seek knowledge even if it be in China.
•Seek knowledge from cradle to grove.
•Scholars are the heirs of the prophets.
•The ink of the learned will be weighed with the blood of the martyrs on the Resurrection Day; and then, the ink of the learned would be preferred to the blood of the martyrs.
•Anyone who pursues a course in search of knowledge, God will ease his way to paradise.
•The most learned of men is the one who gathers knowledge from others on his own; the most worthy of men is the most knowing and the meanest is the most ignorant.
•Acquire knowledge, it enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to heaven

With help and support of Allah and Ahlu-Albiat (AS) Alrasool Islamic center will start 2011/2012 school second semester this Sunday 2/26/2012 Insha Allah. I call upon all my dear brothers and sisters to bring there children to school this Sunday for enrolment and receiving the syllabus. Click here to download Almahdy school enrolment form

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