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
المصدر : غرر الحكم ودرر الكلم
آفَةُ الْعَامَّةِ الْعَالِمُ الْفَاجِرُ
The bane of the masses is a corrupt scholar
المصدر : غرر الحكم ودرر الكلم
شَرُّ الْعِلْمِ مَا أَفْسَدْتَ بِهِ رَشَادَكَ
The worst knowledge is knowledge that is not action upon
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
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
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