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heart: they are not fulfilled through knowledge unless they first be cleansed from
impurities and uncleanliness.
The second duty of the student is to reduce (to a minimum) his ties with the
affairs of the world and leave his kin and country because such ties occupy one‟s
time and divert one‟s attention. Furthermore Allah has not given the human two
hearts and the more mind divides its attention among several things, the less
able it is to comprehend the truth. For this reason it has been said: “knowledge
will surrender nothing to mankind unless mankind surrenders his all to it.” Even
when you devote yourself completely to it, you cannot be sure that you will attain
any of it. The mind, which divides its attention among different things is like a
stream the water of which flows in several different directions only to be
absorbed in part by the earth and in part by the air with the result that nothing is
left for irrigation of planted lands.
The third duty of the student is that he should neither scorn knowledge nor exalt
himself over the teacher, but rather entrust to him the conduct of his affairs and
submit to his advice just as the simple patient would submit to a sympathetic and
impurities and uncleanliness.
The second duty of the student is to reduce (to a minimum) his ties with the
affairs of the world and leave his kin and country because such ties occupy one‟s
time and divert one‟s attention. Furthermore Allah has not given the human two
hearts and the more mind divides its attention among several things, the less
able it is to comprehend the truth. For this reason it has been said: “knowledge
will surrender nothing to mankind unless mankind surrenders his all to it.” Even
when you devote yourself completely to it, you cannot be sure that you will attain
any of it. The mind, which divides its attention among different things is like a
stream the water of which flows in several different directions only to be
absorbed in part by the earth and in part by the air with the result that nothing is
left for irrigation of planted lands.
The third duty of the student is that he should neither scorn knowledge nor exalt
himself over the teacher, but rather entrust to him the conduct of his affairs and
submit to his advice just as the simple patient would submit to a sympathetic and