TYRANTS AND IGNORAMUSES
“Wa māūtītum mina l-‘ilmi illāqalīlan,” (Qur’ān 17:85). Allah says, “I did not give you (pl.) of knowledge except a little.” The power and the knowledge of Allah cannot be measured or fit into any border. The real knowers know that their knowledge is nil. However, those who are not knowers, who read a few things but remain ignorant, they think they are something, [and] then their ignorance increases. The one who does not recognize Allah, the one who does not believe in Allah’s power, is an ignorant man. He is as if he has learned nothing. Others know only as much as Allah wishes them to know. [And] that too is only to the degree we can carry. The knowledge we can carry is not even as the size of a drop.
