Your Attitude Towards Knowledge : Know More or No More?

Your Attitude Towards Knowledge : Know More or No More?

by Nisaar Y. Nadiadwala on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 5:20am

 

Alhamdolillah, this week I attended a three days workshop on 'Improving Teaching Skills' conducted by Shaikh Mamdouh Mohammed, a prominent educationist and a popular speaker on Peace TV. As it is I am already into teaching public speaking, debating, impromtpu speaking ...yet I am always in the quest of getting more inputs in my little brain, rather I would say, I want to push some more things down my brain.

   Workshops and seminars teach us a lot of things if the subjects are appealing and if they are conducted in a  modest way. Along with the subject of the workshop ,we get to learn new teaching skills and other creative ideas to make your own teaching interesting.

Many a times we feel that we have learnt enough and every time an invitation for learning something different, reaches us, we reject it outrightly thinking that " we don't require it" 

  These days everybody seems to be into learning.  I received a pamphlet announcing  a one day workshop on " How to make 50 Types of Tea"! Those who think " It is a weird subject for workshop" should know that it ran 'houseful'.  A yoga teacher conducted a workshop on just " how to breathe properly"! Many may find these themes amusing, but they are marketed so nicely that it  gets a lot of crowd and money as well.

I know a brother who gives a melodious Adhan and he conducted a workshop for the muazzeins " How to give a good Adhan" 

   Robert Kiyosoki the famous best selling writer once wrote that he still attends paid workshops to gain more knowledge. I have read in popular books that Sales managers, teachers, managing directors, parents, all attend workshops to update their skills.  If you observe on an airport, you will notice that around 80 percent of travellers read while waiting for the plane or while flying . 

  My first and the last editor was very fond of books, one day he showed me his collections of books in his new apatment and said ," Nisaar if I sell all these books at half the rates, yet I can buy another apartment out of the money!" He introduced me the thought of buying books by cutting down other expenses. It is due to his appetite of knowledge that is capable of writing three times more than I write every day and he is 80 years old, and still he happens to be the highest paid writer amongst the Gujarati writers.

   Abdullah Ibn Abbas used to travel hundreds of miles to verify one hadith. That was his passion for knowledge. Ibn Masood said: There is not a singly Qur'anice verse whose context of revelation I don't know of,  yet if I knew that some one far off knows a little more about a verse than me , I would travel all the way to get it. Allahbe pleased with both of them. Gaining knowledge never ends till you die, and if you have passed on that knowledge to some one else then it benefits you even after you die. So do you want to know more or you want no more?

Author: Nisaar Nadiadwala speaks and writes on socio-educational issues from Islamic view point. He canbe reached at nisaar_yusuf@yahoo.com

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