How Can an Employee Seek Knowledge?

The answer is that seeking knowledge is not limited to those who are free for it. Rather, from the Sahabah (companions) there were those who were busy working in agriculture and some were occupied with trade, yet they were students of knowledge. Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, was a merchant and he was one of the most knowledgeable of the Sahabah. Abu Sa’id al-Khudri and Abu al-Darda’ were among the people working in agriculture from Medina, and they were among the most knowledgeable of the Sahabah. But a person needs to organize his time. The employee goes for his job during certain hours; let's say it's eight or ten hours, and the law doesn’t allow working for more than ten hours. So, you have fourteen hours left. What do you do? We organize our time; six hours for sleep, if we say six hours for sleep, eight hours remain. One hour for your children, one hour for your wife; you have six hours remaining. One hour for your relatives; five hours remain. What do you do in these five hours? Seek knowledge. A person should organize himself. That way, with the will of Allah, he will gain knowledge. But he should start with most important knowledge, then the next most important.