{"id":1393,"date":"2011-09-01T19:07:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T19:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bakkah.net:\/en\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2011-09-01T19:09:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T19:09:37","slug":"islamic-degrees-certificates-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/islamic-degrees-certificates-knowledge.htm","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Degrees and Certificates Vs. Grounded Knowledge and Understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>In the Name of Allaah, the Ever Merciful&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shaykh Saalih al-Fowzaan<\/strong> (may Allaah preserve him) was asked the following question about academic qualifications:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong> Am I qualified to call to the Salafee <em>&#8216;aqeedah<\/em> if I have attained an excellent mark in a course offered by a <em>da&#8217;wah<\/em> office?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> This (being truly qualified) does not happen except by way of knowledge.\u00a0\u00a0If you know the correct <em>&#8216;aqeedah<\/em> and have a complete understanding of it, then you have attained knowledge of it.\u00a0\u00a0But it is not sufficient for you to have an excellent (academic) mark without understanding <em>&#8216;aqeedah<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>How many times has someone got <em>mumtaaz<\/em> (excellent grades) with the highest honors but he has no understanding!?<\/p>\n<p>And how many times has someone with only passing grades attained true knowledge and understanding!?<\/p>\n<p><strong>It is not about certificates of achievement.\u00a0 It is about having knowledge and a true understanding of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> &#8220;<em>Mathaahir Dha&#8217;f al-&#8216;Aqeedah<\/em>&#8221; (p.39), translated by Moosaa Richardson.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>ST Archives:<\/strong> 04-20-2008<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Name of Allaah, the Ever Merciful&#8230; Shaykh Saalih al-Fowzaan (may Allaah preserve him) was asked the following question about academic qualifications: Question: Am I qualified to call to the Salafee &#8216;aqeedah if I have attained an excellent mark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/islamic-degrees-certificates-knowledge.htm\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,54,70,59],"tags":[122,138],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-reminders","category-st-archives","category-studying-islam-abroad","category-translations","tag-fowzaan","tag-islamic-degrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}