The Seeds of Knolwedge

A Sufi Saint of twentieth century, Shaykh A. al-Alawi, writes:

Knowledge without any support to lean on may cause remoteness.

(Hikmatu-hu, 39.)

Martin Lings, who write the work on Shaykh Alawi, interprets this aphorism of the Shaykh referring it as the seed of knowledge, i like this term very much...