I met a wise one recently who in a discussion revealed something that stuck into my mind. According to the signs of the day of judgment, there will be abundance of information in the world and a severe scarcity of knowledge.
Let me explain the difference. Information is what you get searching on google and wikipedia. Knowledge as in Ilm is more related to word of wisdom learned from the sage, gained via Allah mercý or divine revelation and learned from experience also. Information is related more to intellect where knowledge relates to wisdom.
Where information is certainly not a bad thing, it is knowledge which should be our ultimate goal.
A Sufi is not a man of information; rather a man of knowledge.
May the Aalim, or the All-Knower, grants us knoweldge; for He knows all, and we not.
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