The fact is that knowledge leads to Allah whether you call it religious or non-religious and the apparent boundary between the religious knowledge and non-religious knowledge in fact does not exist. If you have a right bent of mind then every knowledge is religious knowledge. Like the Holy Quran explains Inna fee khalqis samawati wal ardi wa ikhtilafi al layli wal nahari la ayati li ulil albaab Allazina yazkuruna allaha qiyamun wa quhudun wa ala junubihim wa yatafakkaruna fee khalqis samawati wal ardi So here both the religious and apparently material knowledge.
I mean according to some terminology it’s material knowledge they are combined together as religious knowledge. Ulil albaab those who have wisdom their qualities have been described. Number one they remember Allah waking and sleeping rising and sitting in every posture in every way at every time and secondly they keep pondering over the laws of nature and when they ponder over the laws of nature they direct them to the same Lord of which they were remembering even before that. So they remain in the constant state of closeness to Allah whether they are directly remembering Allah or pondering over the laws of nature that is Allah’s creation.
So those the reflections upon the laws of nature send them back to the Lord from where they had started this journey so that means they can never travel away from Allah whatever the nature of knowledge be they are pursuing. So that is very important for Ahmadis to learn that all knowledge is the knowledge of Allah created by Allah and if you have the right mental mind whatever branch of knowledge you are studying and pursuing would lead you to Allah and then everything becomes religious knowledge. If on the other hand somebody is pursuing religious knowledge but it leads him away from Allah and distorts his personality instead of improving it then that knowledge is not religious knowledge at all it is a profane knowledge it has nothing to do with religion it all depends on how you look at knowledge.
So it’s my hobby or pursuit from the childhood to learn as much as you can although I have not been able to do it as I should have wished and I am very imperfect in so many fields of knowledge almost every field of knowledge but I have a natural desire a yearning a hunger for knowing whatever Allah has created so that should be the attitude of every Ahmadi.
