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al-Ilm al-Dharoori - Necessary knowledge
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You must seek the necessary knowledge. The Prophet (saw) said,
“Seeking the knowledge (of the Deen) is Fardh (an obligation) upon every Muslim.” Saheeh al-Bukhari and Saheeh al-Muslim
It is obligatory upon every Muslim to learn what is known by necessity from the Deen (Ma’loum min al-Deen bil Dharoorah), that is the meaning of the above Hadith, it could not of course mean to learn everything inclusively as nobody can achieve to know everything except Allah (swt), nor can it mean to learn the affairs of the Kuffar or about Mathematics, Chemistry etc as firstly it is not from the criteria mentioned earlier, furthermore because many of the Sahabah did not study them nor was it ever considered a sin to be ignorant of it.
However it is Fardh upon us to study and know about what is known from Islam by necessity and to command and forbid it, Imam al-Shafi’i said:
“To seek the necessary knowledge is compulsory on everyone…”
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