A manuscript painting of a school. A bearded master in a white turban sits in a tiled niche beside a pupil holding an open book, while other pupils read, write on tablets, and work at folding bookstands on the carpet and in the courtyard below
“Laila and Majnun in School”, folio from a Khamsa of Nizami, 1524–25The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain

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وَمَآ أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ ٱلۡعِلۡمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلٗا

“And mankind have not been given of knowledge except a little”

(17:85)

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