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1	O you who believe! Let it be said: Al-Wasi;
2	The Vast, the All-embracing, The Boundless;
3	And the thirty-second name of Allah, the One, the Absolute, the Almighty.
4	The journey, not the destination;
5	The walking, not the path;
6	The man, not the clothes in which he is adorned;
7	Allah is the study of life as well as life itself.
8	Allah is the learning of love and respect of learning.
9	Everything in the universe is based upon learning as well as experiencing.
10	To deny learning, is to deny a purpose of existence and being.
11	A man who refuses to learn, profoundly disrespects Allah.
12	To live, is to learn:
13	To learn right from wrong, good from bad, truth from falsity;
14	To learn how we might overcome our difficulties.
15	Before we can learn, we need to learn how to learn,
16	And before we can learn how to learn we need to unlearn.
17	The greatest expression of Islam is love.
18	The greatest goal is education.
19	Education is the enemy of ignorance and evil.
20	He dies not who gives life to learning.
21	Whoso honors the learned, honors Allah.
22	It is a most wicked crime against Allah and Islam to deny education to women and children.
23	Do not be distracted by the pettiness of the false skeptic,
24	That seeks to argue against the tides and prove nothing is true, so as to learn nothing.
25	This is the quicksand of feeble minds.
26	Go in quest of knowledge even into strange places.
27	Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
28	Do you know what corrupts the foundation of a people and then ruins them?
29	The arrogance of the learned weakens it;
30	The disputations of the hypocrite distracts it;
31	And the orders of ignorant kings finally destroys it.
32	To spend more time in learning is better than spending more time praying.
33	The support of deep faith is through wise contemplation.
34	It is better to teach knowledge one hour in the night than to pray all night.
35	One learned man is harder against wickedness than a thousand ignorant worshippers.
36	The pursuit of knowledge is a divine commandment for every Muslim;
37	Do not waste knowledge on those who are unworthy of it.
38	It is like putting pearls, jewels, and gold on the necks of swine.
39	A man or woman who shall pursue the path of knowledge,
40	Allah will direct them to the path of Paradise.
41	Verily the superiority of a learned man over an ignorant worshipper,
42	Is like that of the full moon over all the stars.
43	A tyrant and imposter against Islam is one who denies proper education to their people.
44	It is commanded to all Muslims to rebel against such evil.
45	He who knows his own self, knows Allah.
46	Verily the best of Allah's servants are just and learned laborers;
47	And the worst are corrupt and ignorant kings.
48	To listen to the words of the learned, and to instill into others the lessons of science,
49	Is better than religious exercises.
50	He who leaves home in search of knowledge, walks in the path of Allah.
51	One hour's meditation on the magnificent works of Allah,
52	Is better than seventy years of prayer.
53	The acquisition of knowledge is a duty incumbent on every Muslim, male and female.
54	Acquire knowledge.
55	It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong;
56	It lights the way to Heaven;
57	It is our friend in the desert;
58	It is our companion when friendless;
59	It guides us to happiness;
60	It supports us to overcome misery;
61	It is an ornament among friends,
62	And it is armour against enemies.
63	With knowledge, a man rises to the heights of goodness and to a noble position,
64	He may associate with the wealth in this world but never be beguiled by it,
65	Yet attain to a perfection of happiness and simplicity in this life and the next.
66	Learn to know thyself.
67	The calamity of knowledge is forgetfulness;
68	And tragedy is to waste knowledge and speak of it to the willingly ignorant.
69	Who are the learned? They who live by the virtues of what they know.
70	Education makes a city easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
71	Expel any preacher or scribe who speaks against study, or knowledge or right education.
72	Cast them out as imposters who would deny the importance of knowledge and sensible reason for all Muslims.
73	This is an obligation to all members of a holy place of worship of Islam.
74	Learn to truly know thyself.
75	To listen to the words of the learned,
76	And to instill into others the love of learning.
77	Verily, any man or woman who shall die while studying and improving the knowledge of Islam,
78	Shall be beloved by Allah as equal to the greatest of messengers.
79	Therefore, whosoever honors the learned, honors Allah.

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