Assalam o Alaikum. Shab-e-Juma Mubarak.
The story we are discussing is about Fitn of Knowledge. Theme of this story is that Only Allah knows the whole Truth. Someone asked Musa AS, who is the most knowledgeable man under the sky? Since He (Musa AS) had the unique privilege of one on one neet with Allah swt, so he didn’t think twice before answering that who else than him (Musa AS). Allah swt had to pass on this message through Musa AS to us that true knowledge is passed on to the creatures but little. Besides, Aristotle's famous quote may help us remain humble, "The more you know, the more you realize you don't know."
We live in the age of information revolution. We mistakenly take information for knowledge but fact of the matter is that information is not knowledge. Everyday we are bombarded with torrents of information through media and internet. We assume that busrts of biased infornation/ analysis is knowledge but its not. It is agenda based information rather disinformation purposefully fed to achieve certain vested intersts or objectives. Apparently, knowledge acquired from search engines/authentic sources (Google, bing etc) and online encyclopedias (Wikipedia, Britannica etc) may appear harmless knowledge/ infornation factories but these sources adroitly remain biased. Sit back and think how could the brains behind these business models remain impartial? The indoctrination is so powerful that even reading through these lines some of you might be thinking how these assertions could be true? Scribe must be cynical. But this is the point. We are so deep into this Fitn of Knowledge/ Information that it is hard to draw lines. We have been given little knowledge by The Creator by design. But we can't even hold in to that knowledge. For the sake of repetition, Quran is True Knowledge along with other Books (in their original forms).
Coming over to today's Ayah No 64. The moment The Master (Musa AS) & The Pupil (Most probably Yusha Ibn Noon) realised that they missed the rendezvous where they could have met more knowledgeable man than Musa AS, they decided to retrace their steps to the same place. What happened next shall wait another week. Till then have a blessed week.
Only Allah knows the whole Truth
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