Also be aware that many men eager for science, read, study, and research with application, but derive no fruit. The man of science must realize that … - Ibn Hazm

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Also be aware that many men eager for science, read, study, and research with application, but derive no fruit. The man of science must realize that if application alone was enough, many other men would be superior to him. Science, thus, is certainly a gift from the Highest. What place is left for pride, thus? We can only accept in humility, and give thanks to God, asking him to increase his bounty, and beg him not to deprive us of it.

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About Ibn Hazm

Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm (7 November 994 – 15 August 1064) was an Andalusian poet, polymath, historian, jurist, philosopher, and theologian, born in Córdoba, present-day Spain. He was a leading proponent and codifier of the Zahiri school of Islamic thought and produced a reported 400 works, of which only 40 still survive. The Encyclopaedia of Islam refers to him as having been one of the leading thinkers of the Muslim world, and he is widely acknowledged as the father of comparative religious studies.

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Native Name: أبو مُحمَّدٍ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ حَزْمِ بْنِ غَالِبِ بنِ صَالِحِ بن خَلَفِ بْنِ مَعْدانَ بْنِ سُفْيانَ بْنْ يَزِيدَ اَلْأَنْدَلُسِيُّ القُرْطُبِيُّهنتاي
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Whosoever has a natural leaning towards a science, even if it was less noble than another, should not abandon it for the other because if he did he would be like someone who would be growing coconuts in al-Andalus and olive trees in India, crops that would never fructify.

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If you pride yourself with your science, then you must realize that you have no merit; science is a gift that God has granted you. Thus do not acknowledge it in a way that angers the Highest, because he could erase it from your head through an illness of some sort.

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