💥THE PERSON OF KNOWLEDGE: LESS TOIL, LESS LABOR, YET GREATER REWARD💥
✒️ IMAM IBNU-L-QAYYIM رحمه الله said:
💥"...The person of knowledge exerts less physical effort and performs less labor, yet receives a greater reward.
Consider this through a familiar example: craftsmen and laborers undertake strenuous work with their own hands, whereas the master instructor sits, directs them, forbids them when necessary, teaches them how the work should be done, and earns many times more than they do.
⚡️The Prophet ﷺ alluded to this meaning when he said:
'The best of deeds is IMAAN in Allah, then JIHĀD.'
JIHĀD involves the sacrifice of one's life and the utmost hardship.
IMAAN, on the other hand, consists of the heart's knowledge, its actions, and its affirmation—yet it is the greatest of all deeds, despite the fact that the hardship of JIHĀD far exceeds its difficulty many times over.
This is because knowledge enables a person to recognize the true worth of deeds, their ranks, the superior among them and the inferior, and the weightier over the less weighty.
⚡️Thus, the person endowed with knowledge chooses for himself only the finest and most virtuous deeds.
🔻As for the one who acts without knowledge, he imagines that virtue lies merely in enduring greater hardship. Consequently, he bears many difficulties even though what he is striving for may be of lesser merit.
⚡️Indeed, it is often the case that a more virtuous deed requires less hardship than an inferior one.
Reflect upon the state of Abū Bakr رضي الله عنه. He was the best of this Ummah, yet it is well known that among its members were those who performed more acts of worship than he did in terms of Hajj, fasting, prayer, and recitation of the Qur'an. Abū Bakr ibnu ʿAyyāsh said:
'Abū Bakr did not surpass them by abundant fasting or prayer, but by something that had settled firmly in his heart.'
This is the context in which the well-known proverb applies:
🔹Who can match your gentle, measured pace?
🔸You walk slowly, yet you arrive first."
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