ينفع في المعاد لكونه منسيا و قصر الهمة على تحصيل المعاش و مرمة أمور الدنيا لكونها نصب عينه دائما و يحتمل أيضا أن يكون المراد بالعقل العلم بما ينفع في المعاد و المراد بالعلم العلم الكامل المورث للعمل فالمراد ما بال الناس يعلمون الموت و الحساب و العقاب و يؤمنون بها و لا يظهر أثر ذلك العلم في أعمالهم فهم فيما يعملون من الخطايا كأنهم لا يعلمون شيئا من ذلك و الجواب ظاهر و الظاهر أن هاهنا تصحيفا من النساخ و كان لا يعملون بتقديم الميم على اللام فيرجع إلى ما ذكرنا أخيرا و اللّٰه يعلم.

profits in the hereafter, since it is forgotten, and the confining of one's concern to the acquiring of livelihood and to the mending of the affairs of this world, since these are ever before his eyes. And it is also possible that what is meant by intellect is the knowledge of what profits in the hereafter, and what is meant by knowledge is the complete knowledge that bequeaths action. So what is meant is: what is it with people that they know death and the reckoning and the punishment and believe in them, yet the trace of that knowledge does not appear in their deeds, so that in the faults they commit they are as though they knew nothing of that? And the answer is evident. And it appears that here is a miscopying from the copyists, and it was la ya'malun, with the mim before the lam; so it comes back to what we mentioned last. And God knows.

أبواب العلم و آدابه و أنواعه و أحكامه

Chapters on Knowledge: its etiquette, its kinds and its rulings

باب 1 فرض العلم و وجوب طلبه و الحث عليه و ثواب العالم و المتعلم

Chapter 1: The obligation of knowledge, the duty of seeking it, encouragement toward it, and the reward of the scholar and the student

الآيات:

The verses:

البقرة: وَ زادَهُ بَسْطَةً فِي الْعِلْمِ

Al-Baqara: "and increased him amply in knowledge"

الأعراف: كَذلِكَ نُفَصِّلُ الْآياتِ لِقَوْمٍ يَعْلَمُونَ و قال تعالى وَ لكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لا يَعْلَمُونَ

Al-A'raf: "Thus do We set out the signs in detail for a people who know"; and He, exalted be He, said: "but most people do not know"

التوبة: وَ نُفَصِّلُ الْآياتِ لِقَوْمٍ يَعْلَمُونَ و قال طَبَعَ اللَّهُ عَلى قُلُوبِهِمْ فَهُمْ لا يَعْلَمُونَ و قال الْأَعْرابُ أَشَدُّ كُفْراً وَ نِفاقاً وَ أَجْدَرُ أَلَّا يَعْلَمُوا حُدُودَ ما أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَلى رَسُولِهِ و قال تعالى فَلَوْ لا نَفَرَ مِنْ كُلِّ فِرْقَةٍ مِنْهُمْ طائِفَةٌ لِيَتَفَقَّهُوا فِي الدِّينِ وَ لِيُنْذِرُوا قَوْمَهُمْ إِذا رَجَعُوا إِلَيْهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَحْذَرُونَ و قال صَرَفَ اللَّهُ قُلُوبَهُمْ بِأَنَّهُمْ قَوْمٌ لا يَفْقَهُونَ

Al-Tawba: "and We set out the signs in detail for a people who know"; and He said: "God has sealed their hearts, so they do not know"; and He said: "The bedouin are more intense in unbelief and hypocrisy, and more fitted not to know the bounds of what God has sent down upon His Messenger"; and He, exalted be He, said: "Why then should not a party of every group among them go forth, that they may gain understanding in religion and warn their people when they return to them, that perhaps they may beware"; and He said: "God has turned away their hearts, because they are a people who do not comprehend"

يونس: يُفَصِّلُ الْآياتِ لِقَوْمٍ يَعْلَمُونَ

Yunus: "He sets out the signs in detail for a people who know"

يوسف: نَرْفَعُ دَرَجاتٍ مَنْ نَشاءُ وَ فَوْقَ كُلِّ ذِي عِلْمٍ عَلِيمٌ

Yusuf: "We raise in degrees whom We will; and above every possessor of knowledge is one who knows"

الرعد: أَ فَمَنْ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّما أُنْزِلَ إِلَيْكَ مِنْ رَبِّكَ الْحَقُّ كَمَنْ هُوَ أَعْمى إِنَّما يَتَذَكَّرُ أُولُوا الْأَلْبابِ

Al-Ra'd: "Is then he who knows that what has been sent down to you from your Lord is the truth like him who is blind? Only the possessors of understanding take heed"

طه: وَ قُلْ رَبِّ زِدْنِي عِلْماً

Ta Ha: "And say: My Lord, increase me in knowledge"