In fact, it was what we did in life that I tried to write and therefore to make sense of…

I was thinking about society and trying to learn a lesson for myself.

There was such an intensity of feeling that I was searching for the meaning of life in an effort for something that would end with my death, something that would extend beyond me.

There were questions I needed to find answers to. In fact, these were questions that all of humanity should leave whatever they were busy with and seek and find the answers to. I took refuge in the Lord of the Worlds, I entered into this business with an unknown end…

Who am I, where did I come from, where am I going?

What should be my ultimate purpose in life?

I had to find the answers to these questions. These were indispensable questions for me to be smart, strong-willed, conscious, individualized and to achieve what I needed to achieve. Because these were the fundamental questions that every human being has been searching for answers to, both consciously and unconsciously, since the first human being.

As a living creature that continues its existence in the universe, my main goal was to know what I was doing and why, and to find out where and why I came from. I had to start by creating the method to seek answers. In other words, by determining a route that leads to the truth…

Because if I could not determine the truth well, it would be very easy for me to accept the wrong as the truth. There are many people who accept false information as true and live their lives on that path and leave us.

I seek refuge in Allah from passing on falsehood as truth.

In this study, since it will mean finding the answers to the questions asked in order to make sense of life, and thus shedding some light on the human world, even if it does not benefit those who have come and gone before, perhaps it will provide information to those who are living now, and perhaps to those who will come after. Yes, information. In order to make sense of life, the route I was going to take to answer the current questions had to be “the right information”.

Correct knowledge is knowledge whose accuracy does not depend on time and place. In other words, correct knowledge is knowledge that does not lose its validity no matter when and where it is.

Since human beings are creatures who live their lives with their own truths, the method of finding the answer had to be linked to the method of accessing the correct knowledge.

It is very important for human beings to accept information as true in their lives and to be able to distinguish whether the information is true or false from the moment it reaches them. Because there is a possibility that a person may not accept correct information as correct, and there is also a possibility that he/she may accept incorrect information as correct as it comes to him/her without subjecting it to preliminary research, which leads to an irreversible structure in a self that does not question itself. And if this immoderation becomes a rule in the way he or she looks at things, that person no longer knows what he or she is doing.

If a person misunderstands or basically does not know at all what the absolute right knowledge brings, he has made himself available for a journey with only one destination, since a person who does not know cannot be expected to do what he does not know. Just as a housewife cannot be expected to cook a dish she does not know, people cannot be expected to fulfill the requirements of true knowledge that they do not know. Because human beings are what they know. The more he knows, the more human he is. The more human he is, the more he knows. Knowledge is the action that makes a person human. For example, even if a tree has no fruit on its branches, you can still call it a tree. Even if it has no branches, you can still call it a tree. Even if it is cut from its trunk, it can still be called a tree, but if it is uprooted, it cannot be called a tree. If it is cut, it becomes a stump, if it is split, it becomes wood. In order to call a human being a human being, it must not be like wood and stumps. In other words, it must not be uprooted. The distance of separation from the root is directly proportional to the distance of separation from knowledge. In this sense, the Qur’an describes the logs that look like human beings as follows:

Allah (swt) says:

When you see them, you like their molds, and when you listen to their speech, they are like a log clothed with a garment. They think every noise is against them. They are enemies; beware of them. May Allah damn them! How are they turned away from the Truth? [7]

The simile of a ‘stump’ in this verse describing the hypocrites stems from the fact that they are separated from their roots and therefore live a life unaware of their inner world. Even though they may appear flamboyant and charming on the outside, this weakness makes them restless on the inside, so it is natural for them to assume that every voice is against them. Allah (swt) knows best.

Knowledge should be the name of indispensability in the heart.

People live their lives with what they know, make their decisions with what they know and do their deeds with what they know. A person’s faith cannot exceed his knowledge. Because one cannot believe in what one does not know. The more he knows, the more he believes. What a person knows is his own deeds. And his deeds are what he knows. All of these are inseparable from each other. In other words, the acceptance of knowledge as true is the most important condition. And yet, what could be more important for man than this!

Knowledge that has been accepted as true, if it is in fact false, is enough to ruin the world and the hereafter of its owner if it is within the circle of belief. This is too important for people who believe in the Hereafter to be neglected and to be blindly submitted to someone’s understanding. The truth of knowledge must be firmly established in the heart.

Another important thing to know is that separating knowledge from the knower is a kind of death of correct knowledge. Like the connection between the soul and the body, separating knowledge from the knower leads to the grave.

Why?

Because wherever and for whatever purpose it is done, it only serves the devil. How else do you think it can be explained that today, while on the one hand the institution of teaching is celebrated, on the other hand there is a steady increase in those who stab, insult or curse their teachers?

Now that the term “Information Age” has been accepted for the time in which people live, how else can one explain the reason for the verbal or actual insults to which the person who carries the information, who is in the position of teaching, is subjected?

If you separate knowledge from knowledgeable people, you will automatically cause such situations. Those who do this, in their minds, do not see knowledge and knowledge as one. They think of them as separate from each other.

If you think, “Those who do this are already social outcasts,” you are wrong. If that were the case, such actions would only be the actions of those who do not want knowledge. Those who do not want to receive knowledge, whether in the buildings called schools or in the schools called the world, are always running away from the owner of knowledge. This is how they live their lives. Such actions are the actions of those who need knowledge and want to receive it. In their minds, the teacher is not a teacher. He is a person who has had knowledge before him and carries the knowledge he needs. The mentality of those who do this is only to pursue knowledge. Once the knowledge is obtained, the knower is of no importance. For them, there is no difference between the writing on a white piece of paper and the knowledge they want to get from its owner. As long as the information comes somehow, it does not matter where or how it comes.

This is not only a situation related to teachers. It has ruthlessly and immorally spread[8] to every field of knowledge. Those who have grown up with such truths, for the sake of their worldly interests, want to silence or, so to speak, use the Islamic scholars who have made themselves available. If they ask, “What do you think about this issue?”, the implication is, “If you answer in a way that suits my interests, you will be satisfied.”

This is not unique to our country. Unfortunately, the current world-accepted education system is based entirely on this. This system continues to produce knowledgeable but immoral people in society. This is because such people did not receive knowledge from the person they received it from in order to live it. Maybe they have enough knowledge to write a book on ethics, but since the method they have learned is accepted as the truth of the society they live in, ethics will be one of the discourses that they will never need to put into practice throughout their lives.

In Islam, the individualistic mentality of walking hundreds of kilometers to reach the right knowledge has been replaced by this blind understanding. For people with this understanding, even cheating is a labor. Even if the information he gets is correct, the method he thinks he will get will be wrong. This is a limit set for the non-formation of Morality.

Although we are always told otherwise, human beings have been involved in more brutal wars than the previous one in every age. Those taken captive in these wars are subjected to insults, beatings, torture or enslavement[9] depending on their position. For the fighter, being taken prisoner in war is often more difficult than dying.

Consider the captured polytheists after the Battle of Badr…

The first war and the first victory for Muslims.

Who else would have made politics, propaganda and games out of this victory, right?

But our Prophet (a.s.m.) did not think so…

He said, “Untie the hands of the captives” and “give them what you eat and wear.” He was not satisfied with that. He gave good news to the captives. He said, “Every one who can read and write will be released on condition that he teaches ten Muslims to read and write.”

Here is the right knowledge and its application… Here is the value given to knowledge and those who know…

Now let’s come to us…

We are the ummah of a Ummi Prophet who freed prisoners of war in exchange for teaching them to read and write, and we are the ummah of an Ummi Prophet who, despite knowing how to read and write, aspires to be a mafia, looks down on his teacher as unworthy and insults him, and says, “Whatever it takes, as long as it is mine”. Tell me now, if a person is only as human as what he knows, if what he has learned does not exist in his life at all, then what are we?

If the name of civilization is only the pursuit of knowledge, which is an invention of Western societies, what should we call this exemplary event in Medina?

Pity us…

Look what happened when we separated the knowledge from the knower. What is left of man’s humanity…

A mentality that, when necessary, pulls out a gun and shoots you when the requested information is not given… That’s why I say “these are the ones who are illiterate”. How can someone who doesn’t even know how to look read…

Let’s look from the opposite front, after the battle of Badr… You are captured and you are in despair. The end of your life is imminent and you are in a state of worthlessness that you think will continue until death. The commander in front of you is illiterate, but knowing how to read and write is the reason you regain your freedom. Knowing saved a life. And your own life. We should ask the captured polytheists of that time if there was a greater treasure than knowledge…

At that time, knowing how to read and write saved one’s life, but today it is not enough to save even oneself from enslavement. Today, those who sincerely seek an answer to the question “Why is morality deteriorating rapidly?” will find that the issues we call “immorality” are described as “freedom” in societies that teach by separating knowledge from knowledge. When the idea of acquiring knowledge is wrong, the purpose and use of it is not healthy. They strive to earn money, to have a position, to engrave their names in history with golden letters, but they do not say whether what we do is for the good of humanity, whether it adds a personality to my humanity. In this sense, the issue I have mentioned is one of the most fundamental elements in the formation and progress of societies.

[7] Surah Munafikun, Verse 4

[8] Passing disease, contagion

[9] Being under the influence or pressure of something