An Islamic Treasury of Virtues
3. Worship
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that is the best crusade; and remember God
frequently, for there is nothing more pleasing to
God than that one should remember Him much,”
said the Prophet.
(AL-TABARANI)
TRUE KNOWLEDGE IS THAT WHICH INDUCES
FEAR OF GOD
Once, when some of the Prophet’s companions
were sitting with him, he looked up to the heavens
and said: “The time is coming when knowledge will
be taken away.” One of the Ansar, who went by the
name of Ziyad ibn Labeed, asked the Prophet how
knowledge would be taken away from them, when
they were in possession of the Book of God, and
taught it to their wives and children. “I always
thought of you as the most intelligent man in
Madinah,” the Prophet told him, “don’t you see
how the Jews went astray, even though they were
in possession of the Book of God?” The narrator of
this tradition, one Jubayr ibn Nufayr, went to
Shaddad ibn Aus and went into the details of the
tradition with him. “Do you know how knowledge
will be taken away?” Shaddad asked him. Jubair
