Recently, Maulana Skeikh Effendi told us another interesting story:
There is no end and no count to this world’s wisdoms, and all are useful for Mankind. When we say wisdom, it means, all of it is for the benefit of Mankind. Allah created these wisdoms, but they don’t teach us this. Open the books of these donkeys; everything in them is rubbish! Rubbish! Why do you put rubbish in these books? There are jewels! Bring out these jewels. Teach people to search and find jewels. Thousands of students are finishing their studies, but they have no idea what to do after. Then why did you study? For what did you study? All these years, you used up your youth, and now you reached close to a zero, both physically and spiritually. For what? What did you learn? It’s only, “Good,” “Excellent,” “Honor Roll,” gymnastics, this and that. This is idle talk, yaa Hu! Leave this! Change is fard, obligatory. You have to change! Who doesn’t know summer cannot know winter, who doesn’t know winter cannot know summer. Why have you let your children study so much (of rubbish)? What did you teach them? Here, he brings home his report card with, “Very Good,” or “Good.” This is all rubbish! The child cannot survive in life with this. Your son received his diploma, report card. Nowadays, they call it “diploma,“ but back in the days they called it “shehadetnâme“ (Certificate of Witness). For what? Witnessing that this child has learned something, that he has learned these lessons and is now certified to apply them (in real life.)