Abu Taymiyyah – 10 Golden Principles Of Mastering Memorisation London
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My beloved brothers and sisters,
honestly from the bottom of my heart,
I just want to say may Allah as
Lord God bless every single one of you
guys
for attending these programs,
to see so many young faces.
Who want to learn, who want to progress,
who want to enhance themselves.
And the deen is honestly something that brings
utter joy to one's eyes. It really, really
does.
As you guys are aware, today we want
to go through
10 golden principles
pertaining to memorizing knowledge.
This is not
a heart softening lecture.
This is not
some of the lectures that some of you
guys may see on TikTok,
even though I won against it.
I'm totally against it.
That Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
has sent down.
My brothers and my sisters, you may ask
yourselves a question,
what is the big deal when it comes
to Hef? I can just note down knowledge.
I can just note down knowledge because everyone
who has come here today,
right, has some sort of interest when it
comes to memorizing.
But
this question is posed all the time,
even surprisingly among students of knowledge,
who
would discourage
others to memorize the book of Allah Subhanahu
wa ta'ala? Yes guys.
I was once
pulled into a meeting when I was in
Madinah
and the whole point of contention was why
are you going around policing students to memorize
the Quran?
Right?
When sheikh of Imbas
only
assigned 10 Jews to be memorized in the
University of Al Madinah because that's what is
part of the curriculum.
Why are you going around like telling people
that they need to memorize the Quran
completely?
Which may shock some of you guys, yes.
And you know who pulled me into a
meeting? Someone was doing his masters,
right? Which was absolutely shocking to me. I
didn't know whether to cry or laugh at
a time.
Why memorization, brothers and sisters?
Is it so so important?
We find that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has
encouraged us in his Quran.
And likewise the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
encouraged it,
right? Allah Azawajal says,
They are verses,
ayaat,
right, that are clear and evident,
that is being carried
in the hearts of those who possess knowledge.
He said,
This Ummah has been gifted and granted
memorization.
As for those who came before,
right,
many prophets were sent and they had scriptures
and books with them, right?
Their people would only
recite these scrolls and these books that the
prophets,
came with.
They're only recited looking
at the most half of the scrolls that
he had. However,
and once they act upon the message,
the only one who would act the only
one who would memorize it would be the
Prophets.
However this Ummah,
right? This Ummah my brothers and my sisters
has been chosen
by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to safeguard the scripture that Allah Azza wa
Jal has sent down the furqaan, the Quran
by memorizing it
and they are carrying it in their house.
Someone in Indonesia
reads the same way you have someone
who has memorized the Quran here in the
UK.
Right? Tell you guys something, Ajib.
In Leicester they gave me problems last year
when I decided to start reading on Khalaf
and hamza
to try to give me problems.
Initially there was no issues and then some
of the elders,
they started causing
a fiasco in the masjid,
right. Even though I explained everything in the
beginning,
it's always the oldest guys.
So what happened brothers
and sisters?
A French brother
who I never met before
started
praying with us in the masjid
and then I heard Mashallah that he's memorized
the Quran and he even knows the reward
of haf's, he knows the reward of caliph
and we got him to lead. Just use
this as an opportunity
to grab the mic and tell them, look
you have this brother who came from France,
I've never met him, we've never sat down
to revise the Quran,
however he's reading exactly how I was reading,
this is with a different riwaiyah.
Allah has chosen to preserve his religion
through that which men in today's day and
age carrying their hearts,
right?
When Allah
said,
We sent down this Quran
and we are going to preserve it. There's
different ways that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala preserves
His Quran,
right?
There are many ways to prove that the
Quran is a miracle,
right? One of them is SubhanAllah,
you have people around the world,
right, who have memorized a scripture,
right,
identical to one another,
SubhanAllah.
And if someone now was to
pronounce it incorrectly,
he would be corrected even by the most
youngest of people. Do you guys remember that
video?
It went pretty viral.
That video of
Sheikh Abdul Ghaffar,
he was reading one of the messages here
in East London,
right? And he said,
Who's the one that corrected him? A young
child behind him. He said, no,
Is that the one? Did I say correctly?
Right? What's the difference?
Who corrected him? A young child and the
Sheikh started smiling. The Freya, by the way
the smile doesn't break your Freya,
only if you laugh
except according to Muhammad al Sirin.
If you smile, it breaks your prayer. What's
his evidence? Fat Abbasam Adhika.
But it's not the stronger view. Shahid,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala preserves
His Quran through
the memorization of men.
Does that make sense?
And that's one of the ways.
So Allah azza wa jal,
right, has chosen the Ummah al Muhammediyyah to
memorize his speech.
And when you think about it my brothers
and my sisters, you really think Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala is going to treat
someone who has memorized his speech, who's carrying
the Mushaft, the Quran
in his heart.
The same way as somebody who didn't give
importance to that when you think about it,
right?
All that trouble that you go through, you
think it goes unnoticed by Allah ahsawajal.
Someone may say, Wallahi, we have
these technological
advancements today.
You need a verse, you just put a
word in and then whenever I need it,
I use it.
When I'm doing dawah.
Again I'll say it, you think the one
who's carrying the speech of Allah Azawajal in
his totality,
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is going to gift
him the same way He gifts another individual
who hasn't given that importance to memorizing the
book of Allah azza wa jal.
Right. Look how Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala honors
someone who has memorized the Quran
on the most greatest nights of the year.
Nights of Ramadan,
sahih.
The nights of Al Qadr, the last 10
nights.
You see the hafid of the kitab
of the Quran
walking through the rows where there are doctors,
engineers.
Some of them may even be multi millionaires.
He walks through all of
them, right?
And then he is the one that leads
them in the prayer.
It's an honor greater than this,
right? On the greatest nights of the year.
We call ourselves individuals who call to what?
Quran and sunnah,
Quran and Sunnasa. But when the month of
Ramadan comes, we go into hibernation.
When the month of Quran,
the month of Ramadan kicks in, we go
into hibernation.
Is that acceptable, guys?
And then throughout the year we're banging on
about we are the Quran, the sunnah.
We should be the one who are giving
most importance to the book of Allah Subhana
Wa Ta'la
And then you have look what the messenger
Salalaihi Wasallam said, Manhafi La.
Whoever memorizes.
Min Awari Surat Al Kahf
Whoever memorizes the first ten verses of Surat
Al Kahf, Usimaman Fitna Tid Dajjal,
This person will be protected from the fitna
of Dajjal.
That's
10, right? And how about the one my
brothers and my sisters memorize the Quran?
Someone who has memorized the book of Allah
Azawajal when you think about it,
right? It could be that Allah Azawajal has
mercy upon him in today's day and age
with all the different fit and that are
out there simply because he's carrying the Quran
even if he hasn't understood it. It may
well be that Allah has mercy upon him
and protects him because he's carrying his speech,
right? Because he's carrying his speech,
right?
Not that I'm saying we shouldn't learn the
meanings of the Quran, of course that's Ola.
Don't just be like
a broken record who
which is memorizes, memorizes it, but then he
doesn't know what he's actually carrying,
right? He memorizes it with his tongue but
then with his actions it completely destroys it.
But like I said, here Allah the messenger
of Allah is saying whoever memorizes 10 verses
a sword he
will be protected from the fitna of the
jaztan.
That's that great fitna there,
right? You memorize the Quran today
and you go a step further by pondering
and reflecting on it,
right, learning its meanings.
Aloha brothers and sisters, I would love to
show you guys the messages I receive on
Instagram.
How people have been trialed
and tribulated in their religions.
Right?
Again, hibd was mentioned, Abdulai ibn Abbasi said,
Jibril
alaihis salatu wasalam used to revise or used
to check the the memorization of the Prophet
salallahu alaihi wasallam once every year.
And before he passed away,
he did it twice,
right?
Ibnutaymiyat arhamatulahi
Whoever doesn't memorize the Quran, and
Whoever doesn't memorize the Quran and he doesn't
learn its meanings.
And likewise,
he doesn't know the hadith, doesn't memorize it
and he doesn't know its meanings.
How do you expect this individual to really
know
This is just a humble observation, brothers and
sisters. Allahu Alethem. A humble observation.
When you memorize the book of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala,
a lot of the other sciences
start becoming a lot more easier.
Right?
Because when you think about it, when you
study aqeed and when you study to hate
brothers and sisters,
majority of what you're studying or you're
researching and discussing and
right? It's verses from the Quran.
So open up aqeedah to lastiya,
right? Open up
for example,
right?
It's taught here a lot of these verses,
right. When you don't know it, when you've
not memorized it, when you're not familiar with
it,
the first step now is okay I need
to at least like
get myself familiar with it and then understand
its meaning but when you've already got it,
Khalaas has been
on repeats in your mind. Now it's just
a matter of understanding its meaning. Allahi trust
me brothers,
life becomes so much more easier
when you've memorized the book of Allah azza
wa jal.
Right?
And not just the Quran as we're going
to come into,
after the Quran it doesn't stop there guys.
There's a next step
that will lead you to excel.
Even you have the hadith of the Prophet
when he said, Nadar Allahumma'an,
Sami'a maqalati fawaaaha,
fahughaaha
May Allah glow in the face of an
individual who hears My speech, the messes salallahu
alaihi was saying.
He comprehends it, memorizes it and then he
conveys it.
Memorization guys.
How many a time do we see guys?
That corner.
He doesn't know the memorization of it. He
goes, oh, let me get out of here.
And then he takes out, it's the wrong
verse that he's quoting to the guy.
It's the wrong verse that he's quoting to
the guy.
And even the messenger salallahu alayhi wasalam when
a group
came to him called waftu Abdul Qais,
He instructed him to memorize these instructions
that he gave them.
And he also
told them
to stay away from certain things,
right?
And
then after that He said to them
memorize it
and then go and inform those
who are waiting for you back home.
Abuhari Radiallahu ta'ala Anhu.
Because head of Abuhari Radiallahu ta'ala Anhu?
He was trending most recently on Twitter.
You know who it is? Who's Abuhari
guys? And why was he trending on Twitter?
That satanic app with a bird.
Why was he trending? Does anyone know?
What I'm about to mention is so, so
important, brothers and sisters.
Do you know why it was trending?
Because you had these feminists.
These feminists
who were trying to take him down. Why?
Why would he try to take down Abu
Hurairadi and not Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
Umar, Uthman and Ali, or any of the
other companions? Can anyone tell me?
I sent
Hafez Yooti in his Alfiya, 1,009 poem of
Mus'ala Hadid he says:
The one who narrated the most hadith was
who? Abu Hurair radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
And then who was
second in line? Abdul Aib Nur Umar radiAllahu
ta'ala Anhu.
If you take out of the equation
the hadith that Abu Hurayra radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
narrated,
a big chunk of the religion goes down
the drain with it.
So some of these feminists were coming out
saying, oh it's Abu Hurairah again,
he who erased all of the hadith pertaining
to women,
take him down, you're gonna take a big
chunk of the Sharia down with it.
Are you promised sister with me?
Right.
He was carrying a big chunk of what
the messenger salaam alayhi wasalam uttered.
This man went through a lot my brothers
and my sisters.
What made him the most knowledgeable from amongst
the companions?
Walayatulbulhifth
Number 1, consistency.
And number 2 brothers and sisters,
alhufd
memorizing the religion.
And these two things my brothers and my
sisters go hand in hand with one another,
Right?
It is hard to memorize, it's not easy.
However,
the merits are many
and that hard work, if it wasn't just
for this particular point guys, the fact that
you put so much time into it and
that you're having,
right, tireless
nights
and sleepless nights should I say,
of memorizing. You think this is going to
go unnoticed by Allah Azza wa Jal, someone
who's really going out his way with the
intention of preserving the deen or memorizing the
book of Allah Azza wa Jal and the
hadith of Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
You think Allah is going to give him,
right?
Less than the one who doesn't give time
to the book of Allah
Let me share something extremely interesting my brothers
and my sisters about the Abu Hurrayah radiAllahu
ta'ala Anhu.
Imam al Bukhari in his saih, he has
a chapter called Bab
Hevrilalalal,
the chapter of memorizing knowledge,
right? Babu Hevrilalal and
he only mentioned,
right,
the hadith of Abu Hurairah under this
subheading.
He could have mentioned other hadith that another
companion narrated but he decided
to pay tribute to this great companion Abu
Huraira
by only mentioning his hadith.
Why?
As Ibn Hajar mentioned and that is because
he was the one that memorized the most
a hadith from amongst the companions,
right?
He says
he didn't mention any other companion that narrated
hadith under this chapter, he wanted to pay
tribute to Abu Huraira, this great man
who preserved for us the religion of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala through that which he memorized.
Imam Shavir Hamatulai Alaihi
would say Abu Hurairah,
who was second in line, right?
At the janazah, the funeral of Abu Hurraya
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
he would be saying, may Allah have mercy
upon him, may Allah have mercy upon him
and he would repeat this,
right? Indeed,
he used to memorize
for the Muslimeen
the hadith of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
What is exactly that he used to do
my brothers and my sisters? How did he
become the Creme of the Creme
as they say, right?
Abu Hurray radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu and Imam Abu
Khali brings this under this chapter heading of
He says in the Nasiyi Qulun, Abu Hurayi
is saying this about himself, the people
have been saying
Abu Hurayy has become like too much, he's
always narrating, narrating, narrating.
He said if it wasn't for these 2
verses in the Quran,
I would have never uttered a single statement
and then he would recite the statement of
Allah
Indeed those who conceal
that which Allah has sent down.
And the guidance of Allah Azza wa Jal
these people are cursed
because if it wasn't for this verse I
would never have narrated a hadith and then
look what he said
Our brothers from the Muhajaleen, those who made
hijrah, they were busy with
their businesses at the markets.
And as for
my brothers from the Ansar, our brothers from
the Ansar,
they were busy with their wealth and their
work.
Prophet used to tell him to tie his
stomach.
Did you guys know that?
He would sit in the Masjid and he
would tie his stomach.
Abu Hurray
my beloved brothers and sisters
fainted more than once, you guys know that?
And people would think that he got like
jinn possession.
Near the minbar he fainted more than once.
He fainted
more than once.
Are your brothers and sisters with me?
I'm
in the lesson, mama.
Lesson.
Okay. Okay. I've shit.
Hey. Sorry. Thanks. Thanks. Okay.
App shit. App shit on me.
Sorry
about that, guys.
I think Siri just accepted a call.
I didn't even know that she was calling.
Just seen it pop up.
What was the last point I was mentioning,
guys?
And he would say, well, maybe julun.
I'm not crazy, you guys think I'm
crazy.
And And the reason why this has happened,
him fainting was because of severe hunger.
He promises this with me. Severe hunger would
lead him to faint.
This Abu Hurray radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu what he
went through.
There's a whole chapter that I have, I
don't know whether we're gonna have time to
actually go through
it. Right?
Al Fakr
poverty when it comes to seeking knowledge.
Right?
You will not be able to acquire knowledge
unless
you taste poverty.
Did you know my brothers and my sisters
that Abu Hurriyah radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu later on
became
the governor of Al Madinah
and he was like
rich.
He had basateen,
he had gardens.
He had gardens.
His mother would enter upon it and then
he would say,
O mother,
May Allah reward you with good as indeed
you
nurtured me very well,
Alright. You nurtured me very very well.
And then she would say, may Allah reward
you my son
as you were extremely obedient when you became
older.
I should be walking into Isbustan and, you
know,
have money.
When you go through a difficulty, again, don't
think that it goes unnoticed. It's very easy
to throw in the towel, to give up.
Allah
says, Indeed He has promised
those who come with Iman and do righteous
deeds and what's the best of righteous deeds
guys?
Seek knowledge,
right? And the hard work of memorizing and
right. Again it doesn't go unnoticed by Allah
azza wa jal.
Brothers at times they get a little bit
upset that so and so is given a
position and he's not.
Even though they were what?
Akran, they were classmates,
they get upset.
How is it that he
is given this position I'm not? Why is
not rocket science to actually understand why that's
happening,
Right? Maybe there was something between him and
Allah azza wa jal that nobody knew about
that he used to do in his room,
all that time and effort they used to
put in while you were maybe sitting
on that sharia. We have a sharia,
a road in the Madinah called sharia sultana.
1 shaykh called it sharia shaitana.
This is where you have the ice cream
parlors.
You got McDonald's,
Burger King,
Pizza Hut
and you got the ice cream parlors and
some students they go and sit there and
enjoy themselves,
no problem go enjoy yourself at the halal
Mcdonald's
But don't get upset later.
Does that make sense my brothers and my
sisters? I know some of you guys wanna
go to a Madinah,
Some of you guys have been
accepted.
It's very interesting
when you get there, very very interesting.
Now that you've managed to get there you're
just thinking to yourself all the shaytan is
whispering, all you now need to do is
get that shahad and you'll go back,
everyone will give you a high status
Allah will not raise an individual
for just having knowledge He's saying. And you're
thinking about just let me get my shahada,
let me get my certificate.
He says, but rather following the truth and
also acting upon it. You're talking about just
getting a shahada and then this and this
and this is gonna work out for me
So this was Abouria radiAllahu ta'ala and a
few brothers and sisters
who really really struggled, went through a lot.
But
it was only for a set period of
time till Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala blessed him
with so much.
What did we mention? What made him so
great? We mentioned 2 things, right?
What are the 2 things?
Consistency
and memorization. Consistency and memorization.
Did some of you guys come for a
hot softening lecture?
Did you guys think that this was not
going to be a class?
Honestly guys,
it was a reminder. Right? This was a
I think it was a nice reminder of
Abu Hurair radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
he said,
he one time said to Abi Hurayra radiAllahu
ta'ala Anhu,
Another companion is now testifying,
testifying
to Abu Hurray radiAllahu ta'ala.
Right? And for your contemporaries,
even though, you know
but for those in your time to testify
to your hard work is honestly something that
is very very great.
Right.
He said you are the one that was
most consistent when it came to the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and the one who memorized the most when
it came to the hadith of the Prophet
SAW He
bore witness to this, he was most consistent.
And it's not surprising why you find Abu
Hurairatyahahu ta'ala at the top of the list.
So how is it? Consistency
And the second was what? Alhifth.
While people were busy,
not that there's anything wrong with you doing
tijara,
being involved in business as the Muhajirun and
also the Ansarwa,
there's nothing wrong with that but he made
a sacrifice,
right, which was painful at times.
He used to live in a masjid.
Guys, wallahi, I've seen brothers in Damaj, Yemen
live in the Masjid for years.
Anyone here been to the Majd? Yemen?
Paid a visit? You went?
Yemen. Not Yemen but the Majd, the village.
You live in mud houses and some weren't
fortunate enough to even have the basics to
live
in a small apartment or even in a
mud house,
they would wallahi stay in the Masjid years.
They would be in the Masjid and then
whenever the food would be brought for free,
they would have that rice
which had some potatoes, some other times it
would be raw.
Right?
Alright. There's a lot that needs to be
mentioned. However,
I only have until 8:15. Right?
So here, Sam.
Abdul Azakas Sanani,
he says,
Every knowledge that doesn't enter with you into
the toilet,
don't count it as knowledge.
Let me ask you guys a question.
Would you take your books, your Surah Al
Farath into the bathroom?
Would anybody do that?
You'd leave outside, Sai.
Maybe you've memorized knowledge like the Quran and
that would you take it out of your
brain
and put it outside and go into the
bathroom?
We'll do it then. He's saying, kullu al
minlayatulu ma'asahebihilhamam falatarudu
al min. Don't count it as knowledge.
Does that make sense? Don't count it as
knowledge.
I heard my sheikh, Salih ibn Abdillahib Muhammadan
al Usami,
say the following. And he heard it from
Sheikh ibn Usaymi al Rahmatullahi alayhi directly.
He said
He said, We memorized a little,
but we read a lot.
However, we benefited more from that which we
memorized,
from that which
we used to read.
Right?
Let me ask you this question, right?
There are things that were repetitive
when we were growing up as youngsters that
we would hear
on a regular basis from our parents.
It was repetitive.
Right? I still remember it like it was
yesterday.
Like one thing my dad would always say
to me
and I memorized it simply because of what?
Repetition.
You memorize certain things because what?
You run into it
constantly.
He'd always say to me because he saw
that I was a little bit fultfuddot,
which means
what does it mean how do you
be hasty?
I was not the strongest of guys
but I would be the brave heart that
really goes out and defends his brothers.
I had to get dropped and stand back
up again
and then again.
Right? And he saw that.
He would say to me, Ahmed,
if you see someone
with his eye
hanging out,
don't rush to defending him.
You don't know what he's just done
and he has stab wounds everywhere,
right? He has stab wounds everywhere.
He might not necessarily be the victim, he
could have just killed someone but in the
process of doing so he was what sliced
up.
Are you guys with me?
But you're gonna now go and defend him
and he will repeat this all the time.
That really stuck with me, guys.
Point that I'm trying to make here my
brothers and my sisters,
when you memorize something,
it tends to stick with you a lot
longer than when you just read it once
and then you move on.
Take as an example what we studied in
secondary school
or we studied in university. How many subjects
did we take guys?
Right? For those who have now
moved out of that setting, how much of
that knowledge do you actually remember?
How much of the knowledge do you actually
remember? Because you just read it, it was
just like a, you know, I need to
get it over and done with.
But there were certain things that you enjoyed
and you done it repetitively
which you are now maybe benefiting from.
Right? I still remember the Pythagoras theorem.
And the periodic table. Because I used to
I like you know, I just decided to
start memorizing it.
I liked it.
And that's because what? You went over it
multiple times.
Right?
Have you guys heard of Abu Hamid Al
Ghazali?
From the scholars of the past.
You know who he really benefited from? A
thief.
Someone tried to rob him.
That thief
was the reason why
he benefited
immensely.
You know what happened brothers and sisters?
He was traveling
and he was carrying his luggage and in
his luggage he had his books.
So these highway bandits,
they decided to rob him,
right,
they decided to rob him
and he started running behind them saying please
please give it back to me indeed,
right?
That which is in these bags and these
suitcases is not going to benefit you.
He asked him then he stopped, what was
inside of these bags?
He said
All of the knowledge that I studied all
of these years is inside of these bags.
Give it back to me.
Right?
So the head leader of these thieves began
to laugh at him
How is it that you can claim that
you have knowledge? The moment we took these
books away from you, you were left without
nothing,
right?
You were left to that knowledge.
Alright. Look at the humility of Abuham Al
Ghazali, right.
How it's so important that you take knowledge
as long as it's correct, someone may advise
you, sometimes we look at that individual's shortcomings,
He's advising me not smoke and then he's
smoking himself.
Why should I listen to him?
From the conditions of taking away maximum benefit
from the one who's advising you is to
overlook some of your shortcomings.
Otherwise you'll never be able to benefit from
anyone if you always just focus on okay
he's got these issues,
you know what I'm just going to disregard
and dismiss everything they say. Wallahi won't benefit
from anyone
because there's not a single person except that
he has what? Shortcomings, no matter how big
that Sheikh is.
Does that make sense guys?
Right. So he benefited from him, he took
this advice.
Allah Azzawajal made this thief,
this highway bandit
speak the truth which was the reason why
I was guided to that which is correct.
He said, when I reached my destination,
I began to memorize everything that I noted
down,
right, from the previous 3 years.
So just in case this would happen to
me again, I wouldn't be left without knowledge.
Even in
ibn Hazam Muhammaduallahu alaihi
has some lines of poetry where he talks
about this, right?
When they threatened to burn his books,
If you were to burn everything in these
boxes and in these bags,
you won't be able to burn which is
inside of my heart because the elm is
inside of my heart.
Right?
And then he told them, stop being childish,
either speak with knowledge
Tell them to go back to nursery if
you guys are gonna behave like this.
He will speak with knowledge so the people
see who actually knows or not. He had
someone he was someone whose arguments were very
strong,
He was anti madhabzin.
Whenever have you and he started,
you know.
If not someone has heft and also wadwai,
right? Someone has understanding,
you just gathering information is not going to
benefit you.
I know brothers and sisters, very very exciting
to go through this book and that book
and then this.
Give it a couple of months, you're going
to end up forgetting everything if you don't
take the correct methodology,
right?
Am I saying that you should memorize every
word in a book that you're studying? No.
You summarize it and then you memorize
what you summarized.
So at least it sticks with you. Otherwise,
you're just gonna like, next one, next one,
next one, and eventually you'll be left with
nothing.
Right? Hajjama rakalal kutubilayin Fari says, you just
gathering books is not going to benefit you.
If you mention you come to a sitting
with ignorance and your ilm is stuck in
the warehouse,
right?
Or in a closet?
Someone's about to apostate my brothers and my
sisters, the guy doesn't have knowledge.
He's saying to you please give me the
evidence so you're gonna say oh well I
need to go back home and I need
to get you to verse.
Is it on properly, yeah? Is it on
properly? It sounds a little bit different. Type.
The first principle,
Alikhlasulillahi
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
Being sincere in that which we do
and turning to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
in a dua.
We have to understand my brothers and my
sisters
that this sacred knowledge is not like studying
mechanics
or mathematics,
right?
It may be the same in the sense
where where you sit in gatherings,
you take the knowledge directly from a teacher.
However,
it is something that is so sacred
that will only enter into the hearts
that are clean.
As Ibnu Ataymah Turhamatulahi 'alayhi says,
If the hearts my brothers and my sisters
is soft and tender,
you will see that the ilm will enter
into his heart very easily,
It will settle in there.
It will influence it. It will affect it.
However, if the heart has become so hard
and rigid
their ilm will find it extremely difficult to
enter into that kind of heart.
So the heart requires
purification.
It needs to be cleansed,
right?
This heart needs to be pure enough for
this knowledge to enter.
And as we mentioned here brothers,
the first principle is what? Al Ikhlasulillahi
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
To be sincere.
Why am I memorizing this knowledge?
Am I memorizing because I want to be
known as the hafid
or I want to be considered as the
one who is memorized the most in my
locality in my area?
Right. Why am I memorizing?
You always have to ask yourself this question.
It may well be that
you hit the ground running and you're accomplishing
so much in a short space of time
but then
the Shaytan gets the better view,
right? The intentions begin to change.
All of a sudden now he wants to
impress people with
the memorization that he has.
Right?
People always tend to ask,
how do I know if I'm being sincere?
Is there like a sign
that will help me distinguish between that which
is sincere and maybe that which isn't?
This is something very hard to tell brothers
and sisters. However,
the following the following
may well be Nihilo Ta'ala put you in
the right direction and this is a general
principle when it comes to any
good deed that we try to do,
Right. As long as you are striving against
your nafs,
as long as you are striving against your
nafs,
Insha'Allah Ta'ala you are on the right direction,
on the right path
towards the right direction,
right.
You're constantly asking yourself before you do the
act, am I doing it for Allah?
Am I doing it to impress people? Am
I doing it for the money? What am
I doing it for?
While I'm doing the act again,
I'm constantly checking my intention. Is it really
for the sake of Allah?
Right.
And then once I'm done did I do
it for the sake of Allah Azar or
did I do it for clout?
Right.
Is it working now, it says?
Is it working?
Yeah.
Does that make sense, my brothers and my
sisters?
Before we do the act, am I doing
it for the sake of Allah azza wa
jal?
While I'm doing it,
Has my intentions changed?
Right. I'll tell you guys a narration SubhanAllah
that are so so touching.
Afsuleiman ibn Abdul Daud Al Hashmi, Iba Muhammadurhamatulahi
said,
This individual is fit enough to become the
caliphate of the Muslims
because of how smart and intelligent
and intellectual this individual was.
I promise this is with me.
Allah Azza wa Jal blessed him
with knowledge that really had an effect on
his conduct and behavior.
Are you brothers and sisters with me?
You know he said,
I may narrate a hadith and then I
have a particular intention.
And then I come to another part of
the Hadith. Let's just take a Hadith for
an example, right. The Hadith of Jibril is
like maybe what 12, 13 lines guys heard
of the hadith, right? It's pretty long,
right?
At the beginning he has a sincere intention
of doing this for the sake of Allah
because back in the day they used to
narrate a hadith. You take it from your
teacher and then you narrate it to the
students and then this is how,
right? The chain of narration, the chain of
what the messenger alaihi wa sallam mentioned,
continues.
So people will travel to different individuals to
take that hadith from them directly.
Does that make sense?
So it could be that he's sitting and
sitting and he's
narrating this hadith.
There's only maybe 4 or 5 people there.
And then subhanAllah halfway through like a
flurry of people walk in, 30, 40 people
walk in.
Shaytan may start whispering it's time to impress
them with your memorization.
Lie brothers, sometimes shaytan comes to me especially
when there's quality cameras in front of me,
right? And he said you should rephrase that
so it turns out to be a nice
real
Ullai Alim.
It's a struggle,
right? He's talking about just narrating 1 hadith
let alone
doing a whole lecture
and look what he says
then and it may well be that one
Hadith requires multiple intentions for one to constantly
ask himself,
am I really doing it for the sake
of Allahu jalifiyar?
Abdullah ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu he said,
1 he only memorizes
in accordance to his intention.
Our Sheikh Salar Usayni commented on this and
said,
If this individual's
Ikhlas
gains strength,
The more sincerity he has the more he
will be able to memorize.
Shasala Hussaini our teacher also mentioned
You are not going to acquire and attain
knowledge
with
having a strong
memory,
right,
and also having a great understanding,
you you know, some people are able to
understand and pick up a lot better than
others
and likewise
you're not going to acquire all your thinking
as long as I attend all of these
classes then
I'll be able to acquire all of that
knowledge.
It says
You are only going to acquire knowledge
by you having a siddh, being truthful to
Allah
There's a difference between Ikhlas and siddh, who
can tell me what's the difference between
when the scholars talk about being sincere
and when the scholars talk about being truthful?
It's it's truthful with the people and then,
classes with Allah.
Input. Anyone else?
He said, the class is with Allah, and
then is
with yourself. That I really give it is
Al Khas
is very well known. To be sincere to
Allah, Azawajal, am I doing it for the
sake of Allah?
Asitkha, my brothers and my sisters,
is someone who
is truthful to Allah as the wajal in
that which he does. What does this mean?
There are people, my brothers and my sisters,
who do more behind closed doors than what
they do in the open.
You see that His days are connected with
the nights in seeking knowledge.
He's truthful with Allah Whenever
he finds time because people get busy,
he uses the opportunity to seek knowledge.
This is truthfulness.
When he could be doing a 101 things
while another, the moment he gets an opportunity,
he's on BBC sports
or he's watching a football game or he's
going out and so on and so forth,
right? This individual's mind is occupied.
How
can I get closer to Allah?
How can I seek more knowledge?
Right? His whole life brothers
becomes revolved around this concept of
what can I do now to seek more
knowledge that will get me closer to Allah
Guys get the difference?
This person is truthful. Because people say, I'm
busy, I'm busy, I'm busy. The moment they
get a bit of time.
What are they doing with that time?
Are you really truthful here?
Are you really being truthful? You talk about
being busy, I don't have time. But the
moment you do get time,
you're watching the West Ham Tottenham game.
You're playing today. Right?
So they locked up all of the the
roads.
They gave us trouble.
While there are brothers and sisters,
I'm gonna go and benefit.
Even though I'm a diehard
West Ham fan
because I live in East London
or Tottenham.
They're both rubbish anyway.
I had Charles West Ham once upon a
time by the way guys. I used to
be an ex baller.
I'm retired now.
Shay'id
Al Kalam.
You get the opportunity now, you have some
time, what are you gonna do with that
time?
And then you talk about I'm really busy,
I don't have time and
So he mentioned on the number 1 is
what?
Alikhaasulillah,
to be sincere to Allah Azza wa Jal,
and to also turn to Allah Azza wa
Jal with what? With a du'a.
When you think about it, they go hand
in hand with one another.
Right? A lot of time when someone is
really sincere and really truthful,
and that which he's trying to pursue, who
is he gonna go to?
Allah Azza wa Ta'ala He's the one that
grants that, right?
Right? This beneficial knowledge is from Allahu Jallafirillah
You Allah give it to
me. You will see that individual engaging in
Allah of
Tua. He
says
Manishtihadawasta'anabilahitaaalawalahu
azza wa Jal
Whoever works hard
and he seeks assistance from Allah
I'm making du'a, You Allah help me.
Walazim Ministighfarani is someone who always
Seeking forgiveness helps in so many different ways
guys,
right?
Before giving a fatwa,
what's the evidence from the Quran?
That before you give an Islamic verdict you
should say Sakhr Allah. Can anyone quickly tell
me?
Give you guys a clue of salt in
this app.
Allah, he quoted a verse that was taqfirullahin
Allah khana for Rahima.
Do Istighfar indeed Allah is of forgiving. Where
is this where?
Go back a little bit.
Allah. Wa laatakunlal khaineena hasima wastaqfirillah. Do my
hukum,
judgment, passing verdicts, all of this falls under
that. Astaghfirillah, Astaghfirillah.
Does that make sense guys?
He says, Hey,
Allah must give this individual,
right, that which the mind can't imagine
and that is seeking aid and assistance from
Allahu Jallafiy'u'llah this is the shayid here.
Also,
was shayid to Sheikh al Islam Qadassallahuwita
Ayatul Masayl. I witnessed that whenever Ibn Taymiyyah
found difficulty
trying to understand certain misal,
right?
He would run to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
right?
By seeking forgiveness, it's ibrutemia. He finds
difficulty in understanding an an issue. He will
run to Allah you Allah forgive me.
Maybe I'm not even able to understand because
Allah Azzawajal
is
not pleased with me, right? And then he
says
You
Allah help me
turning to Allah Azza wa Jal when he
found it difficulty to understand or it could
be that you're finding it difficult
to memorize.
When is the best time to really ask
Allah Azawajal?
Allahabad brothers,
you ask Allah Azaw in the last third
of the night.
It doesn't matter what background you have, you
could be the biggest drug dealer.
Wallahi a'layeem. I don't say this out of
exaggeration, you could be the biggest drug dealer.
You could be an individual that's causing mayhem,
havoc.
But Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'la will end up
opening that door for you.
Right?
You may take 1,000 steps away from Allah.
How many steps do you need to take
back to Allah? It's just one step.
One dua that you make
Right? As Abu Ishaql al Bilh mentioned,
ask Allah for tawfee for success
and be sincere when doing so.
And when you are in frustration call out
to Allah
confessing your sins You Allah I did this
and I did that.
You're in a state of humility,
right?
Just as You Nusib Numaeta, You Nus alaihis
saloon called unto Allah
Allah I've oppressed and wronged myself,
right?
And he says
keep knocking on that door. Perhaps if you
keep knocking on the door, it will eventually
be opened.
Does that make sense?
Keep knocking on that door brothers and sisters,
right? And it's only a matter of time
before it's opened.
No matter what you ask Allah Azza wa
Jal, some of us we have
very low aspirations.
We look at the British and this used
to happen in Medina guys,
stop setting
the British as a yardstick
with regards to what you need to do
have highest standards.
They will look around, okay, that Brit,
right, he has memorized
15 truths of the Quran, as long as
I do that,
become top.
1st and foremost, the intention is flawed. And
secondly, why are you using the Brits as
an example?
Go hang around with
the Arabs
or the Africans.
1 of the most knowledgeable people that I
came across or a group of people that
I came across was the Senegales and the
Gambians.
Anyone here from Senegal?
Mashallah. So
you memorize everything,
He said yes.
May Allah bless you.
Also that I wanted to mention under this,
my brothers and my sisters is Ma'ozamzam
and its relation to Hivd.
Ma'uzamzam and its relation to Hivd.
Ibn Hajar he says, rahim Allahu Ta'ala,
one time I drank Zamzam.
Zamzam is gonna go missing in London after
this, right?
He said one time I drank Zamzam when
I was at the beginning stages of
learning Hadith with Sadatullah
and I asked Allah
to make me like Al Imam Dhahbir Hamatulullah
when it comes to hadith.
Right?
And then after that
I went to Hajj after 20 years, he
says.
I began to feel, you know, I need
something else now.
I even look at the humility, you could
have said, oh, I've already surpassed him, I
need something else. But he said, No, like
I felt within myself that, you know,
I should maybe ask for more. Anyone who
reads this will, you know?
I ask Allah for a position or a
status greater than His and I hope He
says
that I reach it.
He comments on this.
He says it has been attributed to Sheikh
Alissam
ibn Hajar
that he one time drank Zamzam so he
could reach the level of al Dhabi Filhavd.
So Suyuti actually confirms Faba'al Agaha,
he reached that
and he surpassed him.
So then Suyuti benefited from this and he
said,
right,
That he drank zamzam
so he could reach the level of al
Bulqini
or al Bulqini.
It's actually more correct to say Al Bulqayni.
To reach the level of Bulqayni when it
comes to
Al Fiqh
and then the level of Ibn Hajar when
it comes to hadith
and they say that he actually surpassed that
Allahu Alem.
Abu Bakr Muhammad Al Ja'far he said,
I heard Ibn Khuzaima being asked
how did you acquire all of this knowledge?
He said the messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said
Right? The Messenger
said, when you drink Zamzam,
right, you get what you intended
it for.
You make the intention and you drink Zamzam,
right?
And when I drink Zamzam I asked Allah
Azzawajal
for beneficial knowledge.
A brother one time sent this to me,
may Allah Azza wa Jal bless him.
Ibn al-'Arabi,
the great Mufasr al Mashur,
he said,
I was living in Mecca.
Right? I was residing there in
the month of Dhul Hijjah.
Right?
In the year
489
498,
sorry.
Or
is
it
89?
No, 489.
Wakunto Ashraba Uma Azamzamakithiran
He said I used to drink a lot
of zamzam.
For those who are planning on going to
Umrah,
take that as an opportunity because you can't
import
zamzam anymore
on the
tourist visa.
And most people they go on tourist visas.
I'll tell you guys what my friend actually
wrote under this statement.
He says,
He says, (3:3) He says, (3:3) (3:3) (3:3)
Every time I drink it I would make
the intention of 'ilm
and also Iman faith.
Up until Allah Azawajal open the doors for
me
When I see to Anashrabhuulil
Amal, however I forgot to drink
zamzam
hoping that Allah Azzawajal will grant me the
ability to act upon my knowledge.
And I wish I drank it for both
of these intentions.
So that Allah Azawal can give me the
success to be able to act upon my
knowledge.
He says
And he said I was more inclined to
just you know taking in a lot of
knowledge
than actually acting upon it,
you know.
So my friend he commented on this my
brothers and my sisters
and he said, oh you has been given
the success to live in Al Madina.
Be someone who takes advantage of Maozamazam.
Right? You can drink Zamzam for a 101
reasons brothers and sisters,
right?
Look at how it impacted these great scholars,
right?
I personally my brothers and my sisters would
witness
a Shaykh Abdulazak Al Badr, you guys heard
of him?
Shaykh Abdulazak.
Allah an amazing individual,
you sit in His gatherings, you could be
sieging your Tawhid
but you walk away with your heart softened
up.
He says
well, I said,
I saw Sheikh Abdul Zakhal Badr drinking ma'azam
zam I would
observe
the way he carries himself, what he would
do before class.
He would always go to the zamzam tub
and drink some Zamzam before class.
And I honestly believe he was doing that
intentionally.
So one time when I was sitting with
the sheikh Abdul Salam Shwair,
I mentioned this to him.
He said to me straight away
perhaps he's doing this because he's trying to
seek the assistance of Allah Azza wa Jal
right, in delivering this cloth.
I would take
a glass of Zamzam,
and I would read salt al fatihah on
it, and then I would drink it.
I would
walk away with this benefit and strength.
Right? Right? Something I couldn't find in medicine
SubhanAllah.
Right? Are you guys tired?
That was just principle number 1.
One thing I forgot to mention pertaining to
the intention, my brothers and my sisters.
When we seek knowledge, what are some of
the intentions that one should have
pertaining to seeking knowledge? And perhaps this will
make your memorization of the Quran a lot
more easier
when the intention is right. The
poet He says make sure you have these
4 intentions
when you start the action so that
you walk away with success.
The first point is or your first intention
should be I'm taking this knowledge because I
want to remove myself from ignorance.
Number 2, in order to benefit the creation
I memorize in the Quran because I want
to benefit myself and then I want to
benefit the creation.
Number 3,
to give life to knowledge.
Number 4,
so that this knowledge can be acted upon.
Sharsal al Simeon, he mentioned 12
intentions that you should have.
And then he talked about some of the
intentions that would actually corrupt
the spursue of knowledge. I'll quickly go through
the ones that will corrupt it.
Number 1, one thing to be known on
the earth.
Number 2,
to be mentioned by the people.
Number 2.
Number 3, Mahabbatuthanay'alayh,
loving to be praised by the people. What's
the difference between number 3 and number 2?
Number 2 is to be quoted
oh so and so said this,
so and so said that, he wants that
to happen. Number 3 is loving to be
praised, oh so and so is this and
so and so is that.
The first one was Mahabbatul Dhuhoor Ifilar to
become known on earth.
Number 4,
He seeks knowledge
so that he could have a following.
Number 5,
so that he has a voice that is
heard,
right? Tabi voice, SubhanAllah. You know when someone
mentions these points like this my brothers and
my sisters, it really really shows
that this individual put in a lot of
time and effort to understand the reality of
knowledge
and to make sure that the intention,
is so pure
so that he can acquire that knowledge.
May Allah make us like that.
Number 2 guys,
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Your relationship with Allah is the one point
brothers and sisters.
The sins that you fall into will have
a detrimental effect on the knowledge that you
are looking to acquire.
Sometimes we ask ourselves the question I had
this zeal and this desire to memorize,
but I feel like there are these invisible
chains that are tying me down.
Wallahi Al Adi, brothers and sisters,
I've seen it happen over time,
right?
The sins destroying an individual's pursue,
right,
when he goes abroad to go and study.
And the sins come in different types and
forms.
A lot of time when we speak about
sins, what's the first thing that comes to
somebody's mind?
Who can tell me?
Be honest, guys. Like,
looking at haram,
right? Zina and so on and so forth.
It's It's an addiction that many people have.
It's a struggle that many are suffering from.
However, it may well be that someone has
become
protected from this kind of sin
and then Shaitan comes where?
From a different door.
What is the door that he enters from?
I'll tell you guys.
There was a brother
in Yemen, guys.
He would walk into the Masjid.
He'll pick up the Quran,
He would pick up the Quran he wants
to memorize.
He was there when I arrived maybe 2
years already.
He didn't know the Arabic language and he
did not memorize barely anything from the Quran.
He walked into the mid city, he would
open the Mus'af,
he would sit there for a little bit,
he'll close it and then he'll walk out.
He'll come back, same thing.
At the time it didn't make sense to
me, I was like, why is he like
why can't he sit down?
This brother, when he was there, he was
known to be the one
who spreads the most gossip,
rips into people of knowledge, always speaks about
them.
So overly concerned in these topics, Wallahi rabbil.
And
he did not get anywhere.
Ibn al Jazir Ahmad Tullahi Alaihi says something
very very powerful brothers and sisters,
who died in the year 597.
He's not living amongst us.
But this statement is so impactful
and I wish
students of knowledge who start this journey could
stick this on their walls.
Too many guys in Yemen, in Al Madina,
I've seen drop out, leave seeking knowledge and
you know what their fitna was? Speaking about
others.
Right.
Speaking about others, these guys like this, these
guys like that. Ahi, you just start to
seek knowledge right now.
But then he gets convinced, oh Allah we
have to
protect the Deen.
Imran Juzi says Wamin Talbisi Iblis, by the
way he passed away 597
I believe, say 597.
Quickly do a Google search. Wamin Talbisi when
did he pass away.
I think it's
597. Says woman Talbis
The people of Hadith he says, the way
the Shaitan deceive them and this is from
the deceptions of Iblis,
insulting and speaking about one another.
And they do this under the banner of
You guys heard of Jerhata Adil?
You heard of it?
It.
Is a science that is studied in ulmul
hadith.
However, today people apply it on individuals.
Look what he's saying speaking about others they
do it under the guise of
Jarrwata'adeel.
Wallahi guys I've been hearing it for last
10 years.
We need
to Wallahi Allah these guys then know it
to be seen. Waste of the time when
Allah Azzaw chose them to go abroad.
Are you guys with me?
Close your mouth, brothers and sisters,
especially at the early stages of seeking knowledge.
Learn.
Right?
You will go to certain masajid that you
will run into. And brothers,
who are dressed the same as you? They
got beards.
But within a couple of moments, they're trying
to convert you to having a particular mindset
with regards to the deen.
We need to write all of these brothers
off.
Right? Yes.
Knowledge is important, but we need to be
careful where we take our knowledge from, which
is again true.
And then they will start counseling individuals
one after the other and you will see
yourself, right,
smothering your tongue at these individuals
who in essence are free from what these
people are saying
and you've only shot yourself in the nafood,
you're the victim here.
Too many guys will lie too many. Have
I seen brothers falling off Talab al-'al because
of this?
Are you guys with me?
Ibnuqayim
in his kitab ada wudra, the spiritual sickness
and his cure, he talks about
some of the consequences of sins. You know
the first consequence of sin was?
Hilmarul Al, to be deprived of knowledge. And
then he gives the example of Al Imam
Malik and also Imam Shafi'i.
2 out of the 4 great Imams are
fiqh,
who knew one another. Imam Shafi'i one time
sat in front of Ali Imam Malik as
a student.
You know what Imam Malik said to him?
I can see that Allah Azzawajal has placed
a Noor in your heart.
Do not extinguish this light
with the darkness of sinning.
Do not extinguish this light with the darkness
of sinning.
You know, brothers and sisters, Imam Shafa, he
had photographic memory. Do you guys know that?
Photographic
memory.
If he had a book and he wanted
to take the information of
that which is on this side he would
have to cover the other
Because of how powerful his memorization was, it
will start with
getting mixed up.
However, his memorization got affected. You know why?
Does anyone know why?
He said sins. What sin was it? Or
was it what is it exactly? I I
want something that's a bit more specific.
No. He looked at the bangles. You know
what the bangles
The woman's walking
on the ankles.
He looked at bangles like a bracelet that
was on a woman's ankle.
It affected his memory
And this is when he uttered those lines
of poetry to Waqiya. I said to myself,
why did he go to Waqiya? He had
so many other teas, why Waqiya? And then
later on I found him
He
So I complained to Waqiya about my bad
memory loss
and he directed me to leaving off sins.
He told me that the Ilm is a
Noor
and this Noor
is not gifted to a sinner.
Brothers,
he did not look at a half naked
woman
right, on the streets of London in Samas
time.
That wasn't the case guys.
He looked at the ankles of a woman
and that affected his memory.
Well I remember when I was a Yemen
before I left,
my brother came up to me when he
heard that I was leaving,
Wallahi
he made a desperate attempt
to get me not to leave.
He said, Muhammad, why do you wanna leave?
Stay here.
Because if you go back, you'll end up
forgetting half of the Quran.
I said what do you mean by that?
I was a lot younger then. I said
what do you mean by that?
Because of course I've been away from
the modern world. We've been living in a
village.
Between mountains,
in a mud house. I don't know what's
going on because we don't have internet at
all.
Right? Because Akhir, do you not know how
women walk around?
And then, Wala, one of the worst places
I could have gone through, by transit was
Turkey.
It was the summertime.
Right?
Alhajiib.
And the airport was absolutely horrible. Someone who's
been away for 4 hours, 4 years.
And then he began to make sense what
he said to me.
Imam Shafiya
lost his memory guys because of what? He
looked at the bangles on a woman's ankles.
It affected his memory,
let alone anything else that we might end
up seeing. And these phones, my brothers and
sisters, are destroying our pursuit of knowledge
with the amount of things that we look
at.
You think this is not going to affect
your memorization or your pursuit of the Quran?
Today kids, you bring them to madrasah,
right?
And mashallah once upon a time they had
great zeal and to memorize but then all
of a sudden that motivation is gone, it
just
he's disinterested.
Why? They have these phones
and what they keep on looking at, what
they keep scrolling through. This is destroying your
heart.
So here my brothers and my sisters is
what?
Stay away from sins and to do what
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala told you to do.
My brothers and my sisters that we learn
must be acted upon.
He accepts the call otherwise he will leave,
that's exactly how I'll miss guys. Either you
act upon that knowledge,
you will see it running away from you.
Abdullah ibn Surud radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu he said,
Alm isn't
collecting
narrations.
My brother Zamasi, is Khashi acting upon the
knowledge.
Oh yeah, I mentioned I was gonna say
to you guys why did he go to
Waqiya? Does anyone know?
Does anyone know why he specifically went to
Waqiyyah?
Imam Shafi'i when his memory got affected?
Jameel.
Waqi al Jarrah has Ali ibn Hashira mentioned.
I believe that was his name.
He said
I never ever saw Waqiya carrying a book,
Never.
Everything was from the back of his mind.
So then he was asked,
what is the cure for forgetting?
He said,
If
I was to tell you you can act
upon it, he goes, Yeah, Wallah.
He said,
leave off sinning, I've never tried anything like
it.
Abdullah Masrud, he said,
right?
I believe that if someone now carries out
the sin, he's gonna forget that which is
memorized.
Likewise, Imam Ali got a sim similar answer.
Ibn Hajjar when he talks about Hafid al
Musanid he says
he forgot the majority of what he memorized
He was a hafid, you don't get this
title hafid guys unless you've memorized a 100000
hadith.
So Ibn Hajj is talking about this individual.
He says he forgot the majority of what
he memorized had till Quran even
Quran. They said that this was a punishment
because of him always speaking about others.
He forgot even the Qur'an guys.
And the statements are many guys,
I'm running out of time.
So how do we do, brothers and sisters?
The more you learn your knowledge, then we
have to act upon it.
Imam Ahmadratulahi was asked about somebody who writes
a hadith
and he just collects and collects and collects,
he says,
The more you note down the more you
act upon that knowledge.
You come to class every week guys,
we go home, is it just me? With
a book,
We put it down and then we just
get on with our lives.
I learned the hadith today let me go
act upon it.
Imam Muhammad was like that, Allah raised him.
Someone done Hijam on him and gave him.
Same way the Messenger Alaihi Wasallam did.
Whatever hadith you learn okay write it down
it should have a notes on your iPhone.
Okay all the stuff that I need to
act upon.
Whoever amongst us has that.
Attending classes. Okay, well how is this actually
affect what can I do now for it
to affect me
in my life?
Another practical thing to be doing my brothers
and my sisters,
The way we used to memorize information
is by acting upon it.
Anyone who is here, Hanbali?
What did Hanbali do before they start the
wudu?
You guys are tired.
Yes. Wajib.
Believe it's Wajib.
You have to do.
Or should I say
difference between. What's the difference between?
Good.
The schoolboy arrived. We mixed the 2 together.
Hasan.
Hasan.
Khanabilah,
they say you have to say Bismillah.
Before you start the wudu, okay, I learned
this now. I'm gonna go into the bathroom,
even though I might be shafiya, I hate
like all you guys.
Let's study Shafi'i here. Right?
Study Yaseen where you are.
But does hadith the Prophet SAW at least
they agree amongst themselves that it's still a
Sunnah,
still a sunnah.
Oh, just because I am not humbly, I'm
not I'm not gonna do it. No. No.
Go and do it. I'll stick with you.
You studied Fiqh go and act upon it
guys
otherwise you just see all the information will
disappear. So you say
is quoting the Salaf of the past the
way we would make the Alim stick is
by acting upon it.
Knowledge is like Zakah,
the more money you have the more Zakah
you have to
pay. The more 'ilm you have the more
what
Zakat of that you have to pay. What
does that mean? 2 things, number 1, right,
you give it back to the community.
It could be your brother that you give
it back to. Someone that you teach you
will see that knowledge increasing.
Number 2, acting upon that knowledge.
Atala Be'il my brothers and my sisters it
is not appropriate for him to leave off
the night prayer.
Right?
I
believe it was Muhammad Sireen Usidah
or one of the other great scholars. It
is important that the Talib Ulm, he is
known for his nights when the people are
asleep.
Right?
This is a time brothers,
Waala ahsaihi wa salli is saying, Come and
ask me, do we not want the knowledge?
Even Muhammad Sibaneer Muhammadullah says, Even if it
is the length or the time that it
takes to milk a cow or sheep.
Do you milk sheep?
I'm talking about the milk. Does milk come
out of the sheep?
Yeah. Sure.
Cow. Or is it a
cow?
You guys need to go back to Somalia.
Sheep come out. Sheep come out?
They they don't agree. They all say
no.
But they do sheep's milk. Does it come
out of it?
They
send you guys back.
So it was actually Abdul Alaymas said that
Someone who's learning the Quran, he should be
known for his nights while the people are
asleep.
Muhammad al Sirina
said, Even if the time that it takes
to
No. He was actually right.
Sheep.
Time it takes to milk him.
Take it out. Might take what? 15 minutes?
That's the time at least you should wake
up and do Dukhiyam,
night prayer. Or if you can't wake up
in the last 3rd, at least you're doing
in the beginning. And perhaps Allah will open
that gate for you of standing up in
the night when you show him that you
are waking up in the beginning of the
night not waking up at least doing the
night prayer.
Because you could do at the beginning of
the night but it's better to do at
the end.
Al Khardat Utharitha.
Number 3, guys,
you have to work hard.
You have to work hard, guys.
You can't expect
to acquire knowledge by just relaxing. It's not
a university lifestyle, my brothers and my sisters.
You know how they relax at university?
They go partying at night because I've done
great throughout the week or everyone just gets
together just relaxing.
You can't apply
this secular,
right, way of studying
with Al ilm is a completely different ballgame.
It's a completely different ballgame, guys.
You can't expect
to acquire all of their knowledge by just
being relaxed, guys.
By just being relaxed.
Imam Shabeh says, Oh brother, you're not going
to acquire knowledge unless you? Six things.
He says,
having intelligence
eagerness
strive hard
and having also a little bit of money.
Money helps.
Number 5, accompanying
also it takes time. Can't expect that, you
know, knowledge is going to be acquired in
a short period of time.
And it may well be my brothers and
my sisters that you have to change
the people that are around you.
Agreed? If you're hanging around with lazy people
is that Haram?
Let me ask you guys a question, hanging
around or looking at a lazy person is
allowed?
Is it haram? Do you get a sin
for it?
No.
You sure? I don't get a sin for
it. No. No, you don't. You don't get
a sin for it.
But why would the salif or the scholars
of the past say don't look at even
a lazy person? Forget about hanging around with
him. Don't even look at him.
Why? What does that do to you?
It will end up affecting you guys. What
you look at affects your behavior.
It's not just the people that you hang
around with, but people that you look at.
That's why some of the saliv of the
past would say,
so and so individual, when I look at
him it reminds me of Allah.
So they if they felt, you know,
I just want to remember Allah, I'll go
look at him.
They will say go and visit that person.
Helps you remember Allah Azza wa Jal.
But when you sit around a lazy person,
actually subconsciously it will creep in,
right?
Even if that individual is your friend,
you have a goal and objective. It's going
to affect you believe it or not brothers
and sisters. I'll tell you guys there was
a brother
who I knew in Yemen,
came extremely zealous enthusiastic
about seeking knowledge. Brothers
and sisters, he would hang around he would
hang around
Brothers,
he will sit with them in their rooms
doing all nighters talking about marriage.
Talking about marriage.
Now let's switch off the mic again.
That video was dangerous guys.
Are you guys with me?
Talking about marriage, Wallahi, I remember he was
so zealous
and I would warn him stop hanging around
these people.
Not that they are innovators or not that
they are
but they stay up the whole night and
in the whole morning they sleep and then
they come out after door,
that's why I'm gonna seek
knowledge. Alright. I don't want to tell you
guys exactly what happened to him while he
was there and how this affected him because
of the thoughts that he kept on having.
But the bottom line is you ended up
leaving.
Oh, I need to get married. I can't
control myself anymore.
Well, like, you couldn't control yourself anymore.
If you're sitting every day talking about marriage
what do you think that's gonna do to
your desires?
Sitting around talking about different women
and you'll see that when you go abroad
but there will be people like that
and to my sisters as well sitting around
talking about men.
So you must work hard guys.
Cut out these individuals who might not necessarily
don't look down at them, but this is
not for me. I'm here trying to fulfill
my objective. I'm gonna do my own thing.
And it may well be that you have
to do your own thing,
right. Constantly waiting for others,
brothers Wallahi it will just drag you back.
You
have to the people have to be on
your program
or if they can't be on your program
they will have their own program that gets
them to the masjid
waiting around
okay let's go together,
Others, it will just end up affecting you
in so many different ways.
They'll drag you back.
Number 4 brothers and sisters,
When memorizing my brothers and my sisters, here
it gets a lot more practical
that you choose
a time and also a place
that is Murasib,
right, that is suitable.
Ibn Juzi says Waalhifthi
oqatunminal
Rumuri
Fa'avzaluhaasiba,
He says, hifd
has times,
right?
That can be very very helpful. And then
he says, the best time to memorize and
to
study is when you are what? Younger.
When you're young in age.
Some of you guys are thinking okay probably
not for me now, right?
Yes, the Asal is
that you should try to take all the
information in when you're young.
As Hassan al Basri mentioned,
Right? Studying knowledge when you are young is
like carving into a stone.
Having said all of that my brothers and
my sisters,
many of the companions they memorized the Quran
when they were old in age.
Allah, just yesterday SubhanAllah, just was yesterday or
the day before, I came across a video
where a man was saying that he memorized
the Quran
in 4 years
and he surpassed the age of 60.
I, my brothers and my sisters,
many many years ago, back in 2000 and
12 I think it was,
when I left Yemen to go for Hajj
I was sitting
in the Haram area, Makkah.
I was reciting and I made a mistake.
There was an old man right next to
me who corrected me. Old man,
white beard.
He said no you say wrong
and then to my amazement
he ended up bringing all of the verses
that are similar to the Quran,
Well I put down Rurban and just looked
at him,
it's going no more
and he said to me he started memorizing
the Quran after he has surpassed the age
of 60.
And I started testing him.
He knows the the similar verses he goes,
you know Surah Al Mbiya has got this
extra word.
Right?
Rafatakoon fa'abudoon.
He
left me alive and in shock.
So he's saying the best time is when
you're young. Your kids, my brothers and Masjid,
that you guys plan on having,
fill them up.
Just drop things to them while you guys
are walking.
Drop a hadith.
See he'll pick up very very quickly.
Says,
the best time to normally memorize
is
the time of the Sahar.
(twenty-three
thirty
four)
You know, the last 3rd when it starts
all the way up until Fajr that's the
best time to memorize His
He also says
midday.
The mornings are better than the evenings he
says.
And then look what he says, I find
it's very interesting.
Or
When you're hungry, it's better than when you're
actually full.
Has anyone ever tried memorizing when he was,
like, full to the brim?
After he's burped, it starts picking up the
Quran and memorizing.
What do you think?
I just wanna fall asleep, guys.
Or you eat a little bit, but to
make yourself full to the brim.
And then he says,
He says,
it is not praise whoever is not befitting,
shall I say. Right?
And he says you'd rather not memorize when
you are
in a place filled with greenery or with
a nice scenery
or
on the coast
where you have rivers,
or on the riverbank.
Why is that, guys?
Very good.
And the lovely greenery, wow, scenery is beautiful.
Oh, the river,
it's moving.
What is the big distraction today because I
don't think a lot of you guys live
on the banks of rivers,
you live in this gloomy
British place
which just rains all day long.
What are some of the things that distract
an individual?
My brother said city lights.
How old guys?
One of the best things that ever happened
to me, my brothers and my sisters, was
that I didn't buy Internet when I went
to Yemen, when I went to Medina.
Even in Yemen, we didn't have Internet by
the way. We lived in a if you
wanted Internet it was, you know, the dialer,
tick, tick, ding,
it would be like that.
Are you well? That's it.
And even then guys like it would take
so much time
to get to your page that you wanted
and it was like a motor that would,
you know, generate the electricity over there.
I wanna think back SubhanAllah
like that was actually a blessing on the
people over there,
right? When I came to Medina my brothers
and my sisters, I went to buy Internet.
I think this is like the 3rd day
in.
I went to the shop and I realized
that I forgot my,
would you call the thing that you put
the SIM card in?
People carry these banks, you know.
Not modes,
what you call it?
Dongles.
Dongles. Put your SIM card inside. Well, I
I forgot it at home. I was like,
oh, SubhanAllah, I need to go back. The
next day I came back I realized I
forgot my bank card.
3rd time will lie guys I stood at
the door and I said did the last
2 days happened for a reason?
You know yourself Muhammad and we have to
stop being in denial. I'm one of those
guys when I receive messages I get you
know, I need to help them.
Right?
However, if I don't know, then it's not
like mandatory for me to respond. Right?
I never bought internet guys for the first
4 years of my stay there.
Wallahi I say this,
it was one of the best things that
have happened to me. Yes every now and
again when I you know my dad would
send an Umrah Group, I'll buy something so
cheap to just get me by.
And then when everything went
online due to COVID, we had to buy
Internet.
They put Internet into our rooms.
Well, that was one of the worst things
they've done to the students.
I've seen people bring
in PS fives.
Either not everyone there is how you think.
Some people there are just there to get
by, you know.
Some are doing secular studies over there.
So they get together on
them.
But this one Internet nani Ali, you need
good strong connection.
He says, wal khalwatuslun
Being alone
is
an important principle.
Okay. Being alone.
He then also goes on to say, Najim
Making
sure that you get yourself together.
Focused
is a very very important principle, to be
focused.
Right?
As for your head being all over the
place, there's 101 things that you're thinking about,
you need to be
focused. And then He says,
He said there has to be a day
where you just kind of like move away
from the memorization.
Right?
Maybe you do Morajah,
you revise if that makes sense
and then it gives the example of
you know, bricks that you lay.
There has there is a day that you
have to leave, sir. Anyone ever done bricklaying?
You put it put it together and it
has to be day where they leave it
for it to to become
solid.
And after that he takes a couple of
more bricks and then he builds on top
of
it. Agreed?
Also Moses says
Right. Again he talks about the focus,
making sure that you clear your mind and
then he says what you eat has an
effect on your memorization.
You guys know
that? What you eat has an effect on
your memorization. Look what Mohammed Shehab Azul he
said,
I never drank vinegar
from the time I began to treat my
memorization.
Taib,
our Shaykh commented on this, Sheikh Ahmad Badjad,
he talked about,
here they talk about being focused, clearing your
mind and what have you.
However,
is that always possible guys?
With the trials and tribulations of life,
if we constantly keep feeling sorry for ourselves,
I'm going through this, I'm going through that,
we are living in a life of Ibtila,
test.
We have to learn to adapt my brothers
and my sisters. You're saying yes it's better
to have a free clear mind
but let's be realistic here.
Right?
It's a life of trials and tribulations. You're
gonna go through difficulties every now and again.
Especially if you're trying to take this path
of seeking knowledge, shaitan's coming after
you. Know that.
He will come after you the moment you
intend to do some good and the moment
you started, oh, he's gonna come down on
you. That's a shaitan for you.
Especially when it comes to seeking knowledge because
seeking knowledge is his biggest fear because you
are now planning to destroy his tricks, isn't
that so?
Yeah. We have to learn to adapt, guys,
because problems never finish.
I have to learn ways now to
busy my mind away from these things that
are happening.
Some scholars of the past, you know what
they do guys?
Whenever a letter came through,
because they would go and seek knowledge, a
letter would come through the post. They would
just put in a box. Another
letter box. Another letter box.
After he's done maybe 2 years down the
line,
he will start opening and he realize oh
subhanAllah so and so passed away.
Oh subhanAllah 2 years ago when I received
the letter
so and so got injured. Not that I'm
saying my brothers and my sisters that
you're going to be completely
oblivious of what's happening with your family
but do you get my point? They would
look for ways now to
block away that which would affect
their minds
because in Medina it happens to a lot
of people,
right, it happens to a lot of people.
Your parent who never knew, who never needed
you all of a sudden calls I just
need you and then once you come home
JazakAllah Khayef coming back.
So
I've seen it happen so many times but
dad you made me come back, what did
you need me for? Because now I just
wanna like I just needed you.
You see how the Shaitan comes with people.
Number 5, my brothers and my sisters.
That which you're memorizing my brothers and my
sisters, you need to make sure that it
is correct.
The method in the text that you're memorizing
must have the correct shkil
because if you memorize wrong
it's going to be so hard to correct
and I will put my hand up and
admit that this happened to me Wallahi I
memorized certain parts of the Quran wrong
and it was so hard to correct it.
When I was in Yemen I used to
read to the teacher
like that.
It's a Malaysian Indonesian thing.
When you read a juz, 20 pages, you
know how long?
5 minutes.
What are you?
When you would read it in 13, 12
minutes.
I was doing it 13 minutes, I was
trying to get to my teacher's level 12
minutes but Wallahi my brothers ended up being
my biggest regret
because what happens is the letters
they start merging into one another
and he's just hearing like the sound that
sounds correct.
Allah picked up so many messiah and He
stuck with me for ages.
I cried guys, Allah, in front of some
of my teachers when I went to Medina.
One time even my teacher said to me,
Akhid, you recite in Warsh.
He goes, have you been learning warz? Now
you're trying to because of the
because I was reading a song, you know,
the Huruf one, because you know, those on
the sun, there's
You guys know what I'm talking about, maybe
you don't. Anyways,
he made the letters go. He goes, oh,
I think you're Moroccan, he goes to me,
you think you're Moroccan, you used to do
it more. No, brother.
So you need someone who's gonna like correct
you when you're reading to him,
who's gonna make sure that every letter is
coming out properly.
And this is taken what? Directly from a
teacher.
This is how the deen was
transferred hearing it directly
and then someone coming and taking it directly
from you.
Does that make sense?
As for just going off the books guys.
Poet he says,
the smart guy thinks, that the books are
going to guide him.
Thinking because he's so smart and intelligent
and this ignorant person doesn't realize that there
are certain
things that when you read is very hard
to understand that even the people who had
intellect struggled with
And then he says, if you decide to
now seek knowledge without a Sheikh, you will
go astray from the right path of seeking
knowledge.
And then he says, you will start mixing
things up
and you will go astray just like Tomal
Hakimi. Have you guys heard of Tomal Hakim?
Tomal Hakim,
His father was a doctor,
and after
his father passed away, right, he inherited all
of his books.
So he began to
become a self proclaimed
doctor.
So one time, he came to a passage
of the book
that had the cure.
He said,
which means
Black seed. Black seed.
With a bat. Right?
It is a cure to every
illness or ailment. Right?
However,
he had a copy of this which he
read
that was
spelled out incorrectly. You know what he said?
Instead of Al Habba was Al Haya.
What does Al Haya mean? The black snake.
Al Haya Tusoda means a black snake so
a snake Haya Haba what's the difference? The
Ba and the
So the way he understood it was that
the black snake it is a cure for
every sickness.
It was said that he was looking for
a black snake and eventually when he found
it, it bit him which led to his
death.
Others mentioned that before he passed away, right,
he was the cause that so many people
passed away.
He would find these black
and that is all because what? He decided
to go straight to books.
Don't think that you're some smart and intelligent
guy. I'm gonna watch sit in a Maktah,
I'm gonna take all the information in.
So many guys that go astray that we
see
talking nonsense online brothers and sisters
who can't even read the front cover of
a book.
He's reading things and I'm thinking what are
you talking about?
Because of how he's misunderstood it,
due to taking knowledge directly from a book.
When it comes to a Mus'af my brothers
and my sisters, I always advise
that you use 1 Mus'af.
They use 1 Mus'af and that you make
your correction with a pencil on this Mus'af.
Does that make sense?
Some people the way they are is, oh
today he's here it takes up must have.
He's in a he's got it takes another
must have.
You need to know your mistakes.
Sometimes you mispronounce something and the teacher corrects
you. Make sure you never ever make the
mistake again because you've underlined it.
Make sure you never ever make that mistake
again because you've underlined it now.
Who's that one that's typing all this information?
O Masha Allah Assalam Jazakul
Allah bless you.
The rest of you guys are like Imam
Buhari, right?
You've taken all the information in.
The 6th principle guys, At Takaraar,
Thummatakaraar,
Thummatakaraar.
Repetition, repetition, repetition.
This will protect that which you have memorized
from slipping away from you.
The people of knowledge this is how they
would operate, they would what memorize the knowledge
and then repeat and repeat and repeat.
Allah,
Mawdhi says make sure you repeat the knowledge,
keep repeating it. It is from the greatest
of assistance.
And then he says once you've repeated and
repeated and repeated,
it comes with a sweetness,
right? That cannot be compared to anything.
Years go by and that which you SubhanAllah
repeated so much 5 years ago is still
there.
Now you need it. You
do a little bit of a and then
it comes back again
and that's because you solidified
it.
You may forget, but when you go back
now to revise it, it just takes a
little bit of time. And that is because
the foundation was so strong.
There are people who memorize the Quran and
they make it so solid like bio, it's
like water guys.
And then he forgets it. But then when
he needs to revise it just takes him
a couple of months and he's back again
and that is because the foundation was solid.
Because people get busy at times, let's be
honest.
He used to repeat his a 100 times.
Abu Bakr
he
repeated this book. Right?
This Muqtasar
by Ibn Abdel Hakim 500 times.
Abna Atiyeht al Andalusi al Mufassir Rahimullah,
he repeated Sahih al Bukhari
700
times.
Take a little bit brothers and sisters
and repeat it a lot.
Our Sheikh Habibullah Wa Ta'la,
right?
He will say the following.
Take a little bit. However, repeat it a
lot
and then remain consistent and persistent on it.
I'll say that again.
You take a little bit.
You repeat it so much and you remain
consistent
and persistent on it.
When you take in a little bit every
day, eventually it turns into what?
An ocean like raindrops.
I'm running out of time guys.
Muhammad ibn Mihaddami said, Rahim Allah Ta'ala
who was the companion of Imam al Bukhari.
I one time said to Muhammad ibn Ismail
al Bukhari yoman when he was alone,
is there a dua? Is there, like, a
medicine that someone can cure, that somebody can
consume, take in that will perhaps help him
with his memorization?
He said,
I don't know of anything
more helpful to his memorization
than one having that zeal and that desire,
that drive to continue
and to also constantly go over that which
he's studying.
Number 7 guys,
raise your voice
when repeating.
You know my brothers and my sisters, this
is very very important now guys, right? There's
2 stages to when
or to what an individual goes through when
it comes
to being a proficient memorizer.
Number 1, you need to be able to
sit.
You need to be able to sit guys
and you have to train yourself.
Is that clear guys?
What time is it?
33. 12 minutes.
You need to be able to sit. You
have to train yourself.
Who from Monksi here can sit for 2
hours straight
without getting up at all?
3 hours, 4 hours. Numbers are gonna increase.
5, 6, 7. There are people brothers says
they will sit 7 hours straight and not
move
and you train yourself like that.
You hold yourself. Just sit.
Hold yourself. Today you do an hour. It's
like wait.
Hour and a half, 2 hours, 3,
and eventually guys.
Just like everything,
it's like weights memorization is like weights, sitting
is like weights as well.
It's not easy but you have to train
yourself just like everything
else that's the one thing
and then after you've learned to sit down
for long periods you have to now utilize
that time,
right, to
move your tongue.
I remember there was I have this written
down subhanAllah, I wrote it down maybe like
4 5 years ago. It says in here,
the incident in the Haram when the Yemeni
brother came up to you.
Yes.
There was a brother,
Yemeni.
He's going up in Saudi Arabia all his
life.
He was memorizing Buhari Muslim.
Right?
I didn't realize this, but he was actually
watching me when I was reading to the
teacher.
He used to watch me.
I used to read very quickly to the
teacher and he came up to me goes
like what is it
give me some
advice.
And I noticed that there was an issue
before when I used to watch these prophets
would always be in the Haram wallahi guys
they would sit there for
hours with his friend always together
however when they're sitting down they're already 1
step ahead right or 1 step forward.
They will sit there but they wouldn't be
moving their tongue.
So I said to him Yahi, I've observed
you for a very long time however I
just didn't know how to come up to
you. Now that you came up to me
after you.
Masha'Allah you've been given half the pie if
that makes sense.
You are able to sit and that's something
that many people can't do. And secondly,
which is what?
You just sitting and not moving your tongue
is not going to be much of a
benefit.
Does that make sense? So you have
to,
again train your tongue to what?
To move for long periods of time.
Right.
Number 8 my brothers and my sisters,
A little bit of have that you do
which is consistent is better than a lot
that you jump into which then
leads you
to be disconnected.
Did everyone get that?
Sometimes you know how I have the Azir
I'm gonna memorize 5 pages of Quran is
one time and then he does the 2nd
day and then he's burnt out.
Does it happen?
When you first start seeking knowledge, you're jumping
from East London to West London, North London
and South,
Taking all the information in and then eventually
ban Yisafa.
Take a little bit, Taqleel Al Meghdar
Take a little bit, repeat it, repeat it,
repeat it, repeat it and then be persistent
and consistent on it.
Ibn al Nurjarvi
said this
It's a very important principle taking a little
bit while you are continuous.
Well, my brothers and sisters our sheikh Aamir
Basjid he said said did you know
If everyday you just memorize 2 lines of
poetry,
Right?
Every single day for 4 years when at
a university
because in in Medina we start it's 4
years, it's 2 years Arabic and then 4
years in the faculty of your choice. Instead
if you just do 2 lines approach every
day,
2 lines. You know what you're gonna memorize
in 4 years?
Right?
963 lines of poetry.
And if you are Maliki as Harul Masadiq.
Right?
All of this
in 4 years that's if you just do
what 2 lines approach every day. O Allah
hi brother, this is ocean of knowledge.
What happens?
One's excited,
he's jumping from one thing to another and
eventually gets nothing guys. It's just a little
bit here and
Does that make sense?
And you have to understand my brothers and
my sisters also
that
the tariq is far, takes time.
If you keep telling Sahar Das long man
as Imran Tayy mentioned. Whoever keeps telling Sahar
is long,
he'll become weak. When you think about it,
right, if you tell yourself, oh, that's long,
I can't get there.
You've already kind of like become demotivated. That
makes sense?
If you tell us let's do it, it's
not even it's not even that far, it
is far but you're telling it's not even
that far, I can do it.
Can you see the mentality?
How important it is?
Do not rush my brothers and my sisters.
If If you are somebody my brothers and
my sisters
who is trying to grow a palm tree,
it's going to become ready in the summer,
right. And then you see it now, you
know, coming out in autumn, you know, it's
getting there but it's still not there yet.
When anyone in their right mind after having
spent 2 seasons,
start taking these dates off the palm tree
brothers and sisters.
It's not a smart thing to do is
it.
That's why you know don't be nostalgic you're
saying.
Today you take a bit of knowledge and
then tomorrow likewise.
It's like a raindrops.
And it becomes an ocean. A little bit
every
day. Also Imam Azur Ahmedullahi alayhi says,
Whoever tries to take knowledge
as wholesale all at once he will end
up leaving it all at once as well
but every day a little bit, a little
bit, a little bit and with the days
and the nights you will see yourself having
accomplished a lot.
Number 9 my brothers and my sisters,
Al Muraja'atul
Mustamira,
Continuous
Morajaah, revision of what you have memorized.
You put all the effort into memorizing so
much
and then you just let it go. No.
You have to follow the up with what?
Morajah.
Otherwise, you're just gonna end up eventually wasting
your time.
The more you memorize, the more revision you
have to do. Someone may ask me now,
okay, how much how many pages should I
memorize? I think I've got strong memorization.
It just depends on how much
revision you're going to follow the up with.
If you're doing 3 pages, you have to
be doing a lot of revision, and this
is when you need time.
So it's something that is circumstantial. People are
different than it.
Does that make sense? People are different than
it.
What also helps my brothers and my sisters
when it comes to Al Muraja Al Mustameera
is to find a partner
where you have these back and forths with,
right? Al mumubayna Talameed the scholars would say
knowledge
is gained amongst the
classmates students
when they revise with one another. The revision
that you do with your friend tends to
stick a lot more than the individual revision
that you do. It's like a cheat code
to take the information in quicker. When you're
sitting with your friend you're going back and
forth back and forth back and forth it
tends to stick a lot more.
Does that make sense?
Right? Have a JEDWEL. Today I'm gonna get
up with my friend or maybe on the
phone, you know, advancements
in technology.
Right? And today I'm gonna be maybe doing
my own moorajah the next day I'm going
to be what repeating x y and z
make a jidwah for yourself
So many statements that I have written down
here with regards to having a partner that
you revise with. Imam Nuh would say,
He says
sitting with someone who is skillful in his
science or in his field
for an hour is a lot better than
sitting for hours just what going through books,
just having that back and forth, Wallahi makes
that ilm stick
and you start you know maybe opening up
to certain things that
that you weren't aware of before.
Number 10 my brothers and my sisters, Alisiana
to Allah Tathbital Mahfodi Billitlai Alashurohi.
Seeking
assistance
or using
the shuruhah, the explanations of that which you
are memorizing to make that which you are
memorizing
strong
and solid.
Does that make sense?
To make it strong and solid.
You're memorizing something now, look up the explanation
of that or get an explanation for it.
Try to understand what you're memorizing.
Brothers when they were memorizing the Quran guys
they would have an English you know translation
next to them so they have at least
an idea of what they are memorizing,
It does help it stick,
it does help it stick.
The one who always looks into explanations and
goes through the explanations of the scholars,
he may even reach a point where he
can explain the ahadith without
having an explanation in front of him.
Right.
All I know is Allah I've written down
my brothers and my sisters. This knowledge needs
to be memorized guys.
I'm finished.
I'm gonna conclude now, You Sheikh Ibrahim.
I have one question. It's about 0.7.
Okay. You said raising the voice when you
were Not shouting, but just, you know,
Are you saying that this helps with the
memorization in yourself? Yeah. As opposed to songs
repeating quietly? Yes. Yes.
Yes. Okay.
Our Sheikh Salih al Hussain would say,
You must memorize. Whoever thinks that he will
acquire knowledge without memorizing he's chasing the impossible.
Right?
Our Sheikh Talasiddhi would say if you really
want to become solid
When it comes to Talab al Eel you
have to combine between these three things. Number
1,
there has to be a fair share of
memorization that you do. Number 2, a fair
share of classes that you attend and number
3, a fair share of reading that you
must do.
Alright.
A fair share of memorization,
a fair share of attending classes and a
fair share of reading books.
They go hand in hand with one another.
Well, like guys, there is so much I've
just been hurried up,
right? There's so much more that I could
have mentioned of statements and sayings of the
scholars.
These
principles my brothers and my sisters, I mainly
took it from our Sheikh Aamir Bajid.
It's important that we when we benefit something
from someone that we attribute it back to
them, just out of respect.
Right? And to thank our teachers
when they have benefited us. Wallahi, his statements
really really benefited me and I hope it
benefits you guys as well inshaAllah ta'ala from
these mountains that he has quoted
that I put together
in this.
I
I took the 10 points and I just
elaborated on it by bringing some of the
suruhat, some of the different benefits that I
came across
to make it a little bit more explanatory
and easier to understand,
right. May Allah as a reward our teachers
the poet he said
And this is how I always conclude my
classes anyone has benefit to do with anything
always be thankful,
right?
Alright?
Say so and so benefited me and get
rid of your hasad.
It could be a classmate that benefits you
that you attribute it back to him. He's
your classmate. It's hard on the lefts, I
know.
And get rid of your arrogance.
Right?
May Allah protect us from those who are
mentioned in this line of poetry when the
poet said,
Every day I teach him how to shoot
archery.
When his hand or arm became strong the
first person that he shot at was a
tisha
Every day
I teach him how to put lines of
poetry together and the day he was able
to put line of poetry together the first
person that he dissed was his teacher.
Before they you know how you have diss
tracks today?
Before they had what? Diss poetry.
They'll put lines of poetry again they start
shooting at people, at people's tribes and everything.
Assalamualaikiran
guys.
May Allah bless every single one of you
guys and may Allah make you all mesmerizing
memorizers.
Does that even make sense?