THE VOICE

Seeking Knowledge Is An Act Of Worship

If you go to school, then that is a high act of worship. If you go to school to improve your mind and to become more useful to your family and to your loved ones, to your society and to yourself, then you are performing a high act of worship. The act of worship for the people who pursue knowledge brings them into paradise, according to a saying of our Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Also, Allah says in our Holy Book that the scholars will be in a location next to the prophets in heaven. This is because they have pursued knowledge, and after that pursuit and acquiring of it, they have imparted it to others to make the world more knowledgeable. For that they have earned a rank next to the prophets in heaven.

So to use the tools of your intellect, to put your mind to work, to go to school and to get an education so that you will be better for yourself, your loved ones and for the society is a great act of worship. It is second only to the worship Allah.