The Meanings of Hebron in the Interpretation of Imam Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi al-Shafi’i (Died 710 AH)

Abstract

Ibn al-Jawzi - may God have mercy on him - wept over the weakness of enthusiasm in the disappearance of many books of knowledge: He said: “The motivation of the ancient scholars was high, as evidenced by their writings, which are the butter of their lives, except that most of their writings were destroyed, because the students’ determination weakened, so they began to ask for abbreviations.” And they are not active for lengthy ones, then they confine themselves to what they study from some of them, so the books were scattered and not copied.”

What a wonder! If this was the complaint of Ibn al-Jawzi in that period, and he sees Abu al-Wafa Ibn Aqil al-Hanbali (513 AH), the author of the book “The Arts” in (800 volumes), and he sees Ibn al-Khashab the grammarian (567 AH), the author of many books and a huge library, and Abu al-Ala’ al-Hamdhani (569 AH) The masterful scholar, the lover of books, and the righteous minister, the scholar Ibn Hubaira (560 AH), the owner of white hands over knowledge and scholars, and others, so what do we say, then, in an era in which weakness of determination has gathered, and the fear of resolve, a raging torrent of distractions and preoccupations about caring for the verification of texts, but rather about Seeking knowledge is a sentence! ( ), and God is the helper.