Pada 28 dan 29 Ogos yang lalu saya telah berkesempatan menghadiri Seminar Kebangsaan Tokoh-Tokoh Hadith Pasca Kurun Ke-13 Hijrah: Kesarjanaan dan Sumbangan, anjuran Bahagian Pengajian Islam Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan USM, dengan kerjasama Jabatan Mufti Negeri Perlis. Mufti Negeri Perlis, Dr. Asri Zainul Abidin, dalam kata aluannya telah memetik kata Ibn Taimiyyah bahawa manusia yang paling…
‘Information’, ‘science’, ‘understanding’ and ‘wisdom’ all point to a hierarchy in the pyramid of Knowledge; weighed in the epistemological scale, each having different values. ‘Science’ has more epistemic values compared to ‘information’, while ‘understanding’ is of more importance in relation to the pedantic, systematized knowledge referred to as ‘science’. In its turn, ‘wisdom’ is the most estimable of all human intellect; indeed, ‘wisdom’ is the ultimate aim of life long…
