Weekend Story- The Scholar And The Library

In the Abbasid era, a young scholar was granted access to one of Baghdad’s great libraries. The shelves stretched endlessly, filled with works on philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, and poetry.

For months, he read with enthusiasm.

But one evening, he approached his teacher looking troubled.

“When I first entered this library,” he said, “I believed knowledge would make me wiser. Instead, the more I read, the more ignorant I feel. Every book opens ten questions I cannot answer.”

The teacher smiled.

“Then the library has done its job.”

The young scholar looked puzzled.

“Before you came here,” the teacher continued, “you were surrounded by ignorance but could not see it. Books have simply turned on the light.”