True Knowledge The Flower of Religion and Faith
A very important principle of ethics in Islam is that, “he who has no knowledge of an action, can never deliberately intend to act upon it (man la ‘ilma lahu fa-la niyyata lahu).” This fundamental element is stated by al-Tahanawi in his Kashshaf Istilahat al-Funun, arguably the finest dictionary of technical terms relating to Islamic…