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Islam calls us to learn all kinds of beneficial knowledge. Branches of knowledge vary in status, the highest of which is knowledge of shari'ah, then knowledge of medicine, then the other fields of knowledge.
The best of all branches of knowledge are the sciences of shari'ah through which man comes to know his Lord, and his Prophet and Religion. This is the knowledge with which Allaah honoured His Messenger; He taught it to him so that he might teach it to mankind:
“Indeed, Allâh conferred a great favor on the believers when He sent among them a Messenger (Muhammad) from among themselves, reciting unto them His Verses (the Qur’ân), and purifying them (from sins by their following him), and instructing them (in) the Book (the Qur'an) and Al‑Hikmah [the wisdom and the Sunnah of the Prophet (i.e. his legal ways, statements and acts of worship)], while before that they had been in manifest error”