{"id":8069,"date":"2015-10-05T15:32:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T13:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=8069"},"modified":"2015-11-16T08:21:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T06:21:37","slug":"the-purpose-of-acquiring-deeni-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=8069","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose of acquiring Deeni Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/qurans-in-the-ummayad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"qurans-in-the-ummayad\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8070\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/qurans-in-the-ummayad-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/qurans-in-the-ummayad-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/qurans-in-the-ummayad.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hazrat Moulana Muhammad Ilyaas (rahmatullahi &lsquo;alaih) once mentioned:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first and most important demand of Deeni knowledge which one acquires is that it should serve as a means to assist one in taking stock of one&rsquo;s life and becoming conscious of one&rsquo;s Deeni obligations and responsibilities towards Allah Ta&rsquo;ala and the creation. It should be a means for one to realize one&rsquo;s weaknesses and shortcomings and create the desired level of concern to correct and reform one&rsquo;s character and ways. However, if the Deeni knowledge one acquires does not enable one to see one&rsquo;s own weaknesses and look for solutions to correct oneself, but instead becomes a means of searching for the faults in people&rsquo;s actions and scrutinizing their lives, then the outcome of such knowledge is that it will breed pride and haughtiness within a person. This in turn will lead to one&rsquo;s destruction. (Malfoozaat Hazrat Moulana Muhammad Ilyaas (rahmatullahi &lsquo;alaih) pg. 16)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Moulana Muhammad Ilyaas (rahmatullahi &lsquo;alaih) once mentioned:&nbsp; The first and most important demand of Deeni knowledge which one acquires is that it should serve as a means to assist one in taking stock of one&rsquo;s life and becoming conscious of one&rsquo;s Deeni obligations and responsibilities towards Allah Ta&rsquo;ala and the creation. It should be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,14],"tags":[472,410],"class_list":["post-8069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-hazrat-moulana-ilyaas-rahmatullahi-alaih","category-malfoozaat","tag-hazrat-moulana-muhammad-ilyaas","tag-malfoozaat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8190,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8069\/revisions\/8190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}