the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'Allah will not take away knowledge by removing it from people (from their hearts). Rather He will take away knowledge by taking away the scholars, then when there are no scholars left, the people will take the ignorant as their leaders. They will be asked questions and they will issue verdicts without knowledge, thus they will go astray and lead others astray.'" (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 52)  

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَقْبِضُ الْعِلْمَ انْتِزَاعًا يَنْتَزِعُهُ مِنَ النَّاسِ وَلَكِنْ قَبْضُ الْعِلْمِ قَبْضُ الْعُلَمَاءِ فَإِذَا لَمْ يُبْقِ عَالِمًا اتَّخَذَ النَّاسُ رُءُوسًا جُهَّالًا فَسُئِلُوا فَأَفْتَوْا بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ فَضَلُّوا وَأَضَلُّوا  

[Machine] From the Messenger of Allah ﷺ , he said, "Acquire knowledge before it disappears." They asked, "How does knowledge disappear, O Prophet of Allah, when we have the Book of Allah among us?" He became angry and then said, "May your mothers lose you! Wasn't the Torah and the Gospel among the children of Israel? Yet they did not benefit from them at all. The disappearance of knowledge is when its carriers vanish."  

عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ «خُذُوا الْعِلْمَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَذْهَبَ» قَالُوا وَكَيْفَ يَذْهَبُ الْعِلْمُ يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ وَفِينَا كِتَابُ اللَّهِ؟ قَالَ فَغَضِبَ ثُمَّ قَالَ «ثَكِلَتْكُمْ أُمَّهَاتُكُمْ أَوَلَمْ تَكُنِ التَّوْرَاةُ وَالْإِنْجِيلُ فِي بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ فَلَمْ يُغْنِيَا عَنْهُمْ شَيْئًا؟ إِنَّ ذَهَابَ الْعِلْمِ أَنْ يَذْهَبَ حَمَلَتُهُ إِنَّ ذَهَابَ الْعِلْمِ أَنْ يَذْهَبَ حَمَلَتُهُ»  

[Machine] "When their scholars perish"  

«إِذَا هَلَكَ عُلَمَاؤُهُمْ»  

[Machine] "People will continue to be in good as long as the first one remains to learn or teach the other. But if the first one dies before teaching or learning from the other, people perish."  

لَا يَزَالُ النَّاسُ بِخَيْرٍ مَا بَقِيَ الْأَوَّلُ حَتَّى يَتَعَلَّمَ أَوْ يُعَلِّمَ الْآخِرَ فَإِذا هَلَكَ الْأَوَّلُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُعَلِّمَ أَوْ يَتَعَلَّمَ الْآخِرُ هَلَكَ النَّاسُ  

[Machine] "Do you know where knowledge has gone?" We said, "No." He said, "The departure of the scholars."  

«هَلْ تَدْرُونَ مَا ذَهَابُ الْعِلْمِ؟» قُلْنَا لَا قَالَ «ذَهَابُ الْعُلَمَاءِ»  

[Machine] I said, "Like how a garment is shaken off and how a coin is hardened." He said, "No, and indeed this is the way the knowledge is seized from the scholars."  

قُلْتُ كَمَا يُنْفَضُ الثَّوْبُ وَكَمَا يَقْسُو الدِّرْهَمُ قَالَ «لَا» وَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ لَمِنْهُ قَبْضُ الْعِلْمِ قَبْضُ الْعُلَمَاءِ  

[Machine] Why do I see your scholars go while your ignorant ones do not learn? Learn before knowledge is lifted, for the lifting of knowledge is the departure of scholars.  

«مَا لِي أَرَى عُلَمَاءَكُمْ يَذْهَبُونَ وَجُهَّالَكُمْ لَا يَتَعَلَّمُونَ؟ تعلَّموا قَبْلَ أَنْ يُرْفَعَ الْعِلْمُ فَإِنَّ رَفْعَ الْعِلْمِ ذَهَابُ الْعُلَمَاءِ»  

[Machine] "People are knowledgeable and educated, and there is no good in anything after that."  

«النَّاسُ عَالِمٌ وَمُتَعَلِّمٌ وَلَا خَيْرَ فِيمَا بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ»  

[Machine] The teacher of goodness and the learner in reward are equal, and there is no better (reward) for the rest of the people.  

«مُعَلِّمُ الْخَيْرِ وَالْمُتَعَلِّمُ فِي الْأَجْرِ سَوَاءٌ وَلَيْسَ لِسَائِرِ النَّاسِ بَعْدُ خَيْرٌ»  

[Machine] "Be a scholar, a learner, or a listener, and do not be the fourth, for it will lead to your destruction."  

«اغْدُ عَالِمًا أَوْ مُتَعَلِّمًا أَوْ مُسْتَمِعًا وَلَا تَكُنِ الرَّابِعَ فَتَهْلِكَ»  

[Machine] Salman said, "People will continue to be in good as long as the first person learns, and when the first person dies before the last person learns, people will perish."  

سَلْمَانُ «لَا يَزَالُ النَّاسُ بِخَيْرٍ مَا بَقِيَ الْأَوَّلُ حَتَّى يَتَعَلَّمَ الْآخِرُ فَإِذَا هَلَكَ الْأَوَّلُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَتَعَلَّمَ الْآخِرُ هَلَكَ النَّاسُ»  

[Machine] "To be blackened/ darkened"  

أَنْ تُسَوَّدُوا»  

[Machine] "People excelled in building during the time of Umar, so Umar said, 'O tribe of Arabs, the land, the land! There is no Islam without a community, and there is no community without leadership, and there is no leadership without obedience. Whoever guides his people towards understanding will have a good life for himself and his people, and whoever leads his people astray from understanding will bring destruction upon himself and his people.'"  

تَطَاوَلَ النَّاسُ فِي الْبِنَاءِ فِي زَمَنِ عُمَرَ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ «يَا مَعْشَرَ الْعُرَيْبِ الْأَرْضَ الْأَرْضَ إِنَّهُ لَا إِسْلَامَ إِلَّا بِجَمَاعَةٍ وَلَا جَمَاعَةَ إِلَّا بِإِمَارَةٍ وَلَا إِمَارَةَ إِلَّا بِطَاعَةٍ فَمَنْ سَوَّدَهُ قَوْمُهُ عَلَى الْفِقْهِ كَانَ حَيَاةً لَهُ وَلَهُمْ وَمَنْ سَوَّدَهُ قَوْمُهُ عَلَى غَيْرِ فِقْهٍ كَانَ هَلَاكًا لَهُ وَلَهُمْ»