Many People are Dead due their Ignorance

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“And Allah has extracted you from the wombs of your mothers not knowing a thing, and He made for you hearing and vision and intellect that perhaps you would be grateful.”

[an-Nahl 16: 78]

Ibn Jawzee [May Allaah have mercy on him] said about this Ayah:

It is impossible for you to become knowledgeable between the time of morning and evening and it’s impossible for you to become a scholar overnight. Rather, seeking knowledge requires patience, striving and partaking in a long journey. The best type of transport for this journey is the circles of knowledge, to be constant in memorizing and revising. Striving in this is a huge struggle and being patient upon this requires a great deal of endurance. As the saying goes ‘the one who is desperate for water will strive to obtain it throughout the whole day’.

Because of this, the scholars say that many people are dead due their ignorance and lack of knowledge. Bashr ibn Haarith [d. 272 AH] once wanted to enter a graveyard and then said, “The deceased that are inside the wall are more than those outside the wall.”

Sifah as-Safwah, 2/332

Shaykh Abdul-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Abdur-Rahmaan al-Qaasim [May Allaah have Mercy on him] said commenting on this;

“Many people are dead because they are ignorant and have abandoning seeking knowledge and because of this, Shaytaan has attached himself to them and has misled and deceived them. Innovations have spread, the lack of good deeds has increased and people have become trialed with evil scholars.”

The Scholars are the Inheritors of the Prophets, Pg. 20