Five types of Knowledge

 My Dear Readers,

السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ

As-salaamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. (May the Peace, Mercy and Blessings of Allah be upon you)

بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

 

الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ نَسْتَعِينُهُ وَنَسْتَغْفِرُهُ وَنَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنْ شُرُورِ أَنْفُسِنَا وَسَيِّئَاتِ أَعْمَالِنَا مَنْ يَهْدِهِ اللَّهُ فَلاَ مُضِلَّ لَهُ وَمَنْ يُضْلِلْ فَلاَ هَادِيَ لَهُ

وَأَشْهَدُ أَنْ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَأَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ

(See end note in the first post)

(See Note below)

Five Types of Knowledge we can derive from Al-Qur'an

In al-Fawz al-Kabīr fī Uṣūl al-Tafsīr, one of his well-known works on Qur'anic studies, Shah Waliullah Dehlavi, presents five principal kinds of knowledge contained in the Qur’an. I have attempted a loose translation here:

 

 عِلْمُ الْأَحْكَامِ 

 The Knowledge of Legal Rulings

 
This is the knowledge of what is obligatory, recommended, permitted, disliked, and prohibited, whether in acts of worship, social dealings, communal life, or civic order. It is especially the concern of jurists.  

 

 عِلْمُ الْجَدَلِ 

 The Knowledge of Debate, Persuasion and Refutation

This concerns disputation with false beliefs and the refutation of deviant claims, especially those associated with Jews, Christians, polytheists, and hypocrites. It is especially the concern of theologians and those who call others to Islam. 
 

 عِلْمُ التَّذْكِيرِ بِآلَاءِ اللَّهِ 

 

The Knowledge of Reminding People of Allah’s Blessings

This is the knowledge of Allah’s favors, the signs of His power in creation, and the manifestation of His divine attributes—everything that helps guide the human being to recognize the Creator rightly.

 عِلْمُ التَّذْكِيرِ بِأَيَّامِ اللَّهِ 

 

The Knowledge of Reminding People of  Divine Intervention (literally: the Days of Allah )

This is the knowledge of the events Allah has brought about in history: the honoring of the obedient, the punishment of the guilty, the stories of the Prophets, and the histories of earlier peoples, so that human beings may take warning and learn.   

 عِلْمُ التَّذْكِيرِ بِالْمَوْتِ وَمَا بَعْدَ الْمَوْتِ 

 

The Knowledge of Death and What Comes After It

This is the knowledge of what takes place at death and beyond it: resurrection, gathering, reckoning, the balance, Paradise, and Hell.  

 

 May Allah guide us, and help us be on the right path.

 آمیـــــــــــــن  یارب العالمین

وَٱللَّهُ أَعۡلَم

 Wa Allahu 'Alam (And Allah is the All-Knowing)

Note:

This post starts with the well known opening lines of at least one of Prophet Muhammad's ﷺ  sermon. Al-Nisaa’i (May Allah have mercy on him) reported in his Sunan al-Nisaa’i: Kitaab al-Jumu’ah (Click Here) that ‘Abd-Allah ibn Mas’ud (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ taught us the Khutbah Haajah .