أَمْقَتُ الْعِبَادِ إِلَى اللَّهِ الْفَقِيرُ الْمَزْهُوُّ وَالشَّيْخُ الزَّانِ وَالْعَالِمُ الْفَاجِرُ

The most hated of servants in the sight of Allah are: the pauper who is haughty, the elderly fornicator and the immoral scholar

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أَبْغَضُ الْعِبَادِ إِلَى اللَّهِ سُبْحَانَهُ الْعَالِمُ الْمُتَجَبِّرُ

The most hated of servants in the sight of Allah is the haughty scholar

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أَعْظَمُ النَّاسِ وِزْراً الْعُلَمَاءُ الْمُفَرِّطُونَ

Those with the greatest burden among the people are the scholars who exceed the limits

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آفَةُ الْعُلَمَاءِ حُبُّ الرِّئَاسَةِ

The bane of scholars is love for leadership [and authority]

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وَقُودُ النَّارِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ كُلُّ غَنِيٍّ بَخِلَ بِمَالِهِ عَلَى الْفُقَرَاءِ وَكُلُّ عَالِمٍ بَاعَ الدِّينَ بِالدُّنْيَا

The fuel of hellfire on the Day of Judgment will comprise of every rich person who was miserly towards the poor with his wealth and every learned scholar who sold his Hereafter for the world

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آفَةُ الْعَامَّةِ الْعَالِمُ الْفَاجِرُ

The bane of the masses is a corrupt scholar

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شَرُّ الْعِلْمِ مَا أَفْسَدْتَ بِهِ رَشَادَكَ

The worst knowledge is knowledge that is not action upon

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كَمْ مِنْ عَالِمٍ فَاجِرٍ وَعَابِدٍ جَاهِلٍ فَاتَّقُوا الْفَاجِرَ مِنَ الْعُلَمَاءِ وَالْجَاهِلَ مِنَ الْمُتَعَبِّدِينَ

How many a scholar is corrupt and [how many] a worshipper is ignorant, so be wary of the corrupt among the scholars and the ignorant among the worshippers

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مَا قَصَمَ ظَهْرِي إِلَّا رَجُلَانِ عَالِمٌ مُتَهَتِّكٌ وَجَاهِلٌ مُتَنَسِّكٌ هَذَا يُنَفِّرُ عَنْ حَقِّهِ بِهَتْكِهِ وَهَذَا يَدْعُو إِلَى بَاطِلِهِ بِنُسْكِهِ

Only two [types of] people have broken my back: the impudent scholar and the ignorant worshipperOne drives people away from the truth by his immorality and the other invites people to falsehood with his devotion

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لَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ الْعِلْمِ حَمَلُوهُ بِحَقِّهِ لَأَحَبَّهُمُ اللَّهُ وَمَلَائِكَتُهُ وَلَكِنَّهُمْ حَمَلُوهُ لِطَلَبِ الدُّنْيَا فَمَقَتَهُمُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى وَهَانُوا عَلَيْهِ

If the people of knowledge were to carry it as it deserves to be carried, Allah and His angels would surely love them, but they bear it in order to seek worldly gain, so Allah, the Exalted, is displeased with them and they are thus abased by it

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