I know, you begin to wonder 'why' the topic and that is where my point starts from.
For all things being done and also occurred, there is a reason for that and that reason is what we always try to know, that we may get a knowledge of its occurrence.
The day a man begins to make use of the word 'why' he begins to get 'information' about many things. And knowledge is information, and as they say 'information is power'. As the topic stated, 'why', is the birth place of knowledge. This is because of all that a man knows, it is because he kept asking the question 'why'. A man that knows not is a man that never asks 'why' and chose to be ignorant. I give you an example, the study of Gravity came to existence because Sir Isaac Newton saw an apple falling from an apple tree and that made him asked 'why'. And that was the birth of gravitational force. As a father or mother, when your child misbehaves, you always tend to ask him or her ' why did you do it? ' so as to get a knowledge of his or her actions.
The use of this word 'why' would never come to an end because it is a gateway and a door to information. An inquisitive student is tend to be termed a good student because he or she always makes use of the word 'why'.
Let's go back to religion, a man in a bad situation, always asks ' why me? '. Believing that there's a supreme being that knows 'why'. He (God or Allah) knows all the information about the world, which gives him power above all. He knows all the answers to the 'whys' that we ask. Permit me to say He is 'why'. But I end here to ask this question; where do you think is the birth place of knowledge?