The learned
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the learned · العلماء · al-ʻulamāʼ · men of exacting scholarship · men of understanding and intellect · the eminent scholars · śiṣṭāḥ · أهل التحقيق · العلماء الاجلاء · ذوى النهى والعقل
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The scholarly class, to be summoned to virtue by demonstration.
And know that the calling of the learned to the virtues of character is by demonstrations that show the obligation of forming one's character upon the noble traits and habituating it to their beauties;
And when you are gathered with the learned, let them know of you that you are keener to listen than to speak.
and be modest, that you may not come to regret before the learned — for the man of intellect's fear of the censure of the learned (1) is fiercer than his fear of an overbearing ruler.
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The body of religious scholars, appearing as Ibn Taymīyah's early partisans and later opponents, as the guild whose standards of verification the editor upholds, and as the victims of the addressee's disparagement.
The fact of the matter is that a number of the learned had been quick to lavish praise upon Ibn Taymīyah and to take his side at the outset, and then found it hard to retract what they had said of him — until he pushed deep into those singular positions of his for which he is known, whereupon they forsook him one after another, al-Jalāl al-Qazwīnī and al-Qūnawī and al-Jarīrī and others, and their …
It is therefore a science that preserves one from error in thinking, and in the view of the people of exacting scholarship no trust is placed in the learning of one who does not know it.
How long will you praise yourself and your own grandiloquence and your own formulations, and disparage the learned and hunt out people's shameful parts, knowing as you do the prohibition of the Messenger, God bless him and grant him peace:
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The scholarly collective whose disagreement and whose reported findings the chapter compiles.
( As for the divine Essence, which is the principle of origination and of bringing into being, many of the learned have been thrown into confusion over it, and their views have differed concerning its apprehension.
We shall set out for you what al-Ālūsī and others established, quoting from the eminent scholars.
Vīramitrodaya
The community of learned/virtuous practitioners whose observed customs serve as evidentiary support
In the world, too, many learned people (*śiṣṭāḥ*) who are not initiated into the Rāma-mantra are seen not fasting on Rāma-navamī.
The learned (*śiṣṭāḥ*), however, fast on the preceding day.