Hi/salam,
ILMU TANPA AMAL IBARAT POKOK YANG RENDANG TANPA BUAH
I'm sure that most of us know this phrase. Well, i learned this phrase when i was 15, plus, i know it in arabic first rather than in malay. A question popped up yesterday, why did i remember this instead of i don't know, thousands of other phrases?
I think hard enough before i remembered something that i thought the moment i know about this phrase. If the knowledge that we have is something bad, for example, to steal a car, to disable GPS or to unlock a lock, do i need to "beramal" or put these knowledge into action? Certainly i shouldn't but one may then ask, why the hell i know how to steal a car? The answer is, for me, the act of stealing a car is wrong, but i think there's nothing wrong if you know how to steal a car. This knowledge may not be useful and cannot be put into act this time, but in other time, maybe it will.
I think we also know about this phrase
Tuntutlah ilmu dari buaian hingga ke liang lahad
In english, it simply tell us that the search of knowledge only ends when we die. Yet with our current education system, we can only know certain knowledge, not variety of it. In Malaysia especially, parents tend to force their children to get a good job like engineers and doctors, but they don't emphasize on searching for knowledge task. My parent? Well, they simply told me to do what i like, and they act like whoever i'll be in the future, it does not affect them.
Back to the real topic here, so what if i learn something like how to pick a lock? or how to steal a car, rob a bank, use a gun, and other bad stuff? Just because i said i know how to doesn't mean that i am a bad guy. I simply know it because that is what i love to do. Know things. Just so you know, i learn everything that i can, good or bad i don't care. But i don't practice it right away, i wait until the right moment appears. And learning something is good, but if you practice it, then it depends on what,how and why.
*I know not everything but knowing everything is what i want to be.
