The Glorious Qur'an itself instructs that one should not...

The Glorious Qur'an itself instructs that one should not remain still and should not be satisfied with a certain limit. This is frequently referred to in the stories of the Qur'an. Moses (' a ), a great prophet as he was, was not contented with that position, nor was he satisfied with his high position of knowledge.

He no sooner met that perfect man, al-Khidr, than he addressed him, quite humbly and modestly, saying: “ May I follow you that you may teach me right knowledge of what you have been taught?” [^1] He kept following him and acquired the knowledge he wanted to learn. Prophet Abraham (' a ) also was not satisfied with the great state of faith and the special knowledge of the prophets (' a ). He asked the Lord: “ My Lord!

Show me how you give life to the dead.” [^2] He wanted to proceed from the state of cordial faith up to the state of tangible confidence. Higher even than that is when Allah, the Exalted, told the Seal of the Prophets, the most learned person of all Allah's creatures, to say: “ …Say: O my Lord!

Increase me in knowledge.” [^3] Such instructions of the divine Book and relating the stories of the prophets, are but for us to learn from them, and to bring us to conscience and wake us from our negligent sleep. Another one of the veils is that of the false ideas, and the bātil ways, which are sometimes caused by the inabilities of the person himself, and they are mostly the outcome of subordination and imitation. This veil particularly conceals from us the Qur'anic knowledge.

For example, if, by listening to our fathers, mothers, or some ignorant preacher, we got a false idea fixed in our hearts, it would be a veil, a barrier between us and the noble divine āyah s [of the Qur'an]. Thus, even if there were thousands of āyah s and hadīth s defying that idea, we would either dismiss them on the basis of their exoteric meanings, or we would not consider them with the aim of understanding.

Regarding beliefs and knowledge there are numerous examples, but I shall abstain from counting them, as I do know that this veil cannot be torn by the sayings of someone, like me.