What does the Quran say about seeking knowledge

Even today the aspect of Socrates has a quote large place in the religious world irrespective of the distractions amongst other religions. Since Islamic education is based on the Qur’an and the Sunnah, it is considered to be as empirical since that it’s based on divine guidance due to the fact that knowledge is based upon recollection alone. This philosophy is based on the fact that people could grasp their reality only according to their senses, since the reality is actually beyond the senses. Its not unknowing to understand that the visible world is the least understood when compared to the invisible world. In other words it could be said that this physical world is like a shadow, which would also disappear into the shadow too! Islamic education has also been affected by the theory of metaphysics.

The last and final message sent by God – The Qur’an – has accepted this challenge by completely diminishing this Socratic-Platonist concept as precisely mention in Chapter 38, verse 27, “And we did not create the heaven and the earth and that between them aimlessly. That is the assumption of those who disbelieve, so woe to those who disbelieve from the Fire”. Its also explained in Chapter 53, verse 31 as, “And to Allah belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth – that He may recompense those who do evil with [the penalty of] what they have done and recompense those who do good with the best [reward]”. Additionally Chapter 45, verse 22 says, “And Allah created the heavens and the earth in truth and so every soul shall be recompensed for what it has earned, and they will not be wronged”.

These three verses of the Qur’an mentioned in the previous paragraph clearly show that the people who wander about the land and do not observe the worship of Allah, are in fact unbelievers. It also identified the believers as those who contemplate on the Creation of Allah and strive to understand this world and how it all functions. The Qur’an has told the muttaquin or the believers to follow the methodology as given in Chapter 17 verse 36, “And do not pursue that of which you have no knowledge. Indeed the hearing, the sight and the heart – about those entire one] will be questioned”

The Qur’an mentions in Chapter 7 verse 179, “And we have certainly created the Hell many of the Jinn and mankind. They have hearts with which they do not understand, they have eyes with which they do not see, and they have eyes with which they do not hear. Those are like livestock rather they are more astray, it is they who are the heedless”. This precisely shows the fact that the disbelievers are actually worst than even the livestock!, because even the animals believe and worship their Creator and by doing so they know and have a purpose of life, but the disbelieving human being has absolutely no purpose for his life at all and only wanders about the land searching for no reason at all!

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