Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) used to say, “Learn knowledge before it is taken way, and it is taken away with the death of scholars. The scholar and the student are partners in good and there is no good in any other people. The richest is the learned whose knowledge is needed. He will benefit those who need him and even otherwise, he himself will benefit with the knowledge Allah has given him. So how is it that I see your scholars dying, yet the ignorant amongst you are not learning? I fear that the predecessor will depart and the successor will not learn. If a scholar studies, it will only increase, and not decrease, his knowledge. And if an ignorant studies, he will find knowledge firm and established. So how is it that I see you full with food, yet starved of knowledge?” Ibn ‘Abd Al-Barr, Jami' Bayan Al
