for the teacher may benefit from his pupil through things among the Real’s gifts that God, exalted is He, decreed he attain only through this pupil.
Likewise we know certainly that an eminent person may receive an opening concerning an affair someone among the common people asks him about, one with no standing or footing in knowledge, but sincere in turning toward what he asks about. The one questioned is the scholar. At that time, through the questioner’s sincerity, the scholar is provided knowledge of that question he did not previously possess: God’s solicitude toward the questioner includes the one questioned attaining knowledge he did not possess.
Whoever watches his heart finds what we have mentioned. Praise be to God: we benefited from our sons as our shaykhs benefited from us in affairs that had been difficult for them.
(Conveying, Governance, and Requital)
This Abode contains knowledge of conveying from God to His creation through messenger, prophet, and heir. It contains knowledge of cheerfulness in teaching through the door of kindness, without the person sought perceiving it. It contains knowledge of unrestricted and restricted requital. Unrestricted requital is the servant’s requiting his Lord, like gratitude for blessings, and God’s requiting the servant, like increase in what the servant thanked Him for.
Restricted requital is God’s recompense for the servant in the abode of the Hereafter, for it is not an abode of obligation.
