{"id":1142,"date":"2013-01-03T02:12:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T00:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/?page_id=1142"},"modified":"2015-10-22T00:40:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T22:40:56","slug":"knowledge-should-mean-a-full-grasp-of-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/knowledge-should-mean-a-full-grasp-of-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge:<br \/>\nKnowledge means to know yourself, heart and soul.<br \/>\nIf you have failed to understand yourself,<br \/>\nThen all of your reading has missed its call.<\/p>\n<p>What is the purpose of reading those books?<br \/>\nSo that Man can know the All-Powerful.<br \/>\nIf you have read, but failed to understand,<br \/>\nThen your efforts are just a barren toil.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t boast of reading, mastering science<br \/>\nOr of all your prayers and obeisance.<br \/>\nIf you don&#8217;t identify Man as Allah,<br \/>\nAll your learning is of no use at all.<\/p>\n<p>The true meaning of the four holy books<br \/>\nIs found in the alphabet&#8217;s first letter.<br \/>\nYou talk about that first letter, preacher;<br \/>\nWhat is the meaning of that-could you tell?<\/p>\n<p>Yunus Emre says to you, pharisee,<br \/>\nMake the holy pilgrimage if need be<br \/>\nA hundred times-but if you ask me,<br \/>\nThe visit to a heart is best of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge: Knowledge means to know yourself, heart and soul. If you have failed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-yunusemre-poem.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1142","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1142\/revisions\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}