Responsibility Against Stupidity

By Anah Ismanah, S. Pd.

Allah SWT commands us to base on knowledge if we act virtues, cause with that knowledge our action will be right. The most important knowledge is religion, or law. That is the knowledge which will send someone to heaven, which will guide someone to the truth and keep away from hell fire. The knowledge which make us blessed and keep us away of His wroth.Look, how Islam against stupidity strongly, the first verses revalated is the call to seek knowledge. Allah says in QS. 96 : 1-5 “Read. In the name of your lord who created, created man from clots of congealed blood. Read in the name of your lord is the most bountiful one, who taught by the pen, taught man what he knew not”Think it, how from the first verses Allah commands us to read. Reading is the way to get knowledge. By reading we are able to search, to get, to reach a lot of knowledge.

Thus, from the first moment Islam is a religion that commits a war against stupidity. Islam is anti stupidity. But now if there are many muslims who are fool, it’s not because of their religion but they themselves who do not applicate their religious teaching.

Because it’s quite noble the obligations against stupidity, Allah gives reward to whoever teaches virtue.

Rasulullah p.b.u.h said: “Who so ever guides to a virtue, he’ll get the rewards as the doer”

And Allah threats to whoever hides knowledge.

Rasulullah p.b.u.h said: “Who so ever is asked of a knowledge and he hides, then he will be tied with the tie of hell fire”

Allah says in (QS.2:159): “those that hide the clear proofs and guidance we have revealed after we have proclaimed them in the book, shall be cursed by the cursors”

Miserly of knowledge, usually happened on three conditions:

1.  Userly cause of thought if the knowledge is transferred, the other will get nobility, or will compete his knowledge.

2.  Asking for the wordly payment.

3.  Afraid of arguing or disagreeing with stronger argument, so he hide it

Let’s be generous people in spreading knowledge. Stand still in spreading and da’wa, as the realization of our care to those who are fool.

And it’s important to think that, the top of our knowledge is to practice it.

Look, many children are dropped out from school, many others are illiterate, and many people unknow about religion. These phenomena are the duties of the learnts, the scholars, to bring them u from stupidity.

On the day of judgement, Allah will ask to those who have knowledge; Have you spread out your knowledge among human being? If they have already done so, Allah will forgive them. On the contrary, if they haven’t done it, Allah will asked their responsibility of the fault of the fool. It means that Allah will blame on the fool of their wrong doing, but He will blame to the scholars too cause they do not want to spread out their knowledge. It might be the fools do not get knowledge because there is no effort of the learnt to spread out knowledge.

Ali bin Abi Talib said; The fools will not be asked their responsibility on the day of judgement , ‘till the learnt are asked for what are used their knowledge. 

As that so Islam against stupidity. Islam commands us to read, to learn, and seek knowledge. And the scholars are asked to spread out his knowledge, while the fools have to ask to the learnt.