Abu Taymiyyah – 15 Points on How To Become A Solid Student of Knowledge
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My brothers and sisters inshallah ta'ala, in this
lecture we will be covering
10 points on how to become a solid
student of knowledge.
10 points
in how to become a solid student of
knowledge. And through this, inshallah, we will also
be learning
how to document
knowledge. How to document
knowledge. Because like I told the brothers earlier,
that when I was in the Majd there
was a very big fitna.
There was a very big fitna.
And that fitna was the fitna of lessons.
There used to be around maybe 20 to
25 lessons.
Opening up every single week.
20 to 25 lessons opening up every single
week.
So the students there,
some may have been like, you know, the
little kid who's been deprived of candy for
over a month.
Someone has been trying to seek knowledge then
all of a sudden now
he's been
gifted
to go and study in a place like
the Maj, which was the reality of the
matter is
Somewhere where you could come out and you've
really learned the sunnah of the messenger.
So all these lessons that were opening up
you'd find that normally when a little kid
goes to the Kandishaw Baba's.
He He goes excited, right? He goes all
crazy and everything, and he wants to take
everything there. This exactly was the situation
of some students.
He jumped into one class, goes to another
class, then he will leave one class, and
then go into another one, and then so
on and so forth. Maybe a couple of
years later, he's just still in the same
position.
He's still in the same position. Maybe he's
just gained a bit of knowledge
from here and there.
Are you with me guys and sisters?
So it's important that we know how to
attain this knowledge in the best possible way.
Okay? Because there is many brothers, Wallahi, and
I've seen it. They are very enthusiastic.
They really want to do well. They've got
the energy. They've got the commitment.
But because they exert all this effort
into the wrong place,
they end up spending so much time
in something with little Faida.
With
little
So this is why this is just a
humble collection of what the scholars,
they advise with regards to how to go
about seeking
knowledge. But before I mention the 10 points,
in how to document the knowledge,
I would like to mention
3 fundamental
important
points
that every single student of knowledge, if you
want to become serious,
that you need to take and apply.
So these three fundamental important points are as
follows.
The first
one
is You must
memorize
knowledge.
There has to be something of knowledge that
you memorize.
And the more you memorize,
the more benefit that you are bound to
take. And I'll explain later inshallah.
The second point is You
must study texts.
You must study texts
like the text that we're studying now with
the scholars.
And if you can't find the scholars with
the students of knowledge.
The third point is
There must be a fair share
of reading that you do on a regular
basis.
So if you want to be a serious
student of knowledge, you must
embark on
these three things that I mentioned
collectively.
Why do we always say heaved, heaved, heaved?
You have to understand guys,
heaved is a
fundamental part
of attaining knowledge.
If you look at the Abu Hurray, what
made him from the most knowledgeable of the
companions?
The answer would be 2 things.
And they go hand in hand with one
another.
The first one is alhivd.
He used to memorize
and he was somebody who was consistent.
He was somebody who was consistent.
He was somebody who was consistent in
accompanying the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam taking
knowledge from him.
And you can't be somebody who memorizes Allah,
if he
doesn't have consistency.
Are you with me guys?
You
memorize a bit today and then you don't
memorize for another 2 weeks.
Then you may be memorizing something
couple of days after that, and then maybe
4 days after that.
You might be memorizing, but you're just only
getting a little bit. And before you know
it, a lot of time has gone past.
And you've only just attained a little bit.
Because also with memorization you need to be
revising.
Otherwise, it's just going to go down the
drain.
Memorization
without
revision
will end up just being a waste of
time.
So like I said, these are two things
that go hand in hand with one another.
Abu Hurray radiallahu ta'ala
and you can find his hadith inside Bukhari.
And Imam Bukhari
chapter it.
The chapter of memorizing knowledge.
He said,
the people they say, Abu Hurayra. Abu Hurayra
just constantly goes on about the hadith, the
hadith, the hadith.
He then said,
If it wasn't for 2 verses in the
Quran, I would have never narrated
any hadith to you guys.
Then he recited the verse in Surah Al
Baqarah and there is also another verse with
a similar meaning
where
ta'ala
said
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, those who can
see knowledge,
from that which we have sent down.
From the bayyanad, the clear verses
and also the guidance.
They are individuals who have been cursed.
So if he said if it wasn't for
this eye and the other verse and Surah
Al Baqarah,
he wouldn't have never mentioned a
hadith
to the people.
And then he said,
our brothers from the Muhajaleen,
they were busy in the markets doing business.
They were busy with the transactions.
As for our brothers from the Ansar, they
were busy with their wealth.
They were busy
working on their wealth.
He used to attend that which most people
wouldn't attend.
Consistency.
And he would memorize
that which most people weren't memorizing.
Abu Hurray didn't
get 5,000 plus a hadith
while he was relaxing. No. He was there
busy memorizing and sacrificing,
that which a lot of the companions
may have been busy with.
That helped them in their dunya.
If you look also at another narration, Abu
Zaidi Anya Amr ibn Akhtab, he said
The Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he one time led the prayer Al Fajr,
prayer of Fajr
And then he ascended on the mimbar.
He gave us a Khudba all the way
to the time of
Then he got off the member and then
he led the prayer of Dhuhr.
He gave us a Khutba all the way
to
Then he got off the member, he prayed,
led the prayer, and then he got on
the member again.
And then he gave us a Khutba until
sunset.
Time of Maghrib.
And he told
us about that which was and that which
is going to be.
And then Amr ibn Akhtab he said
The most knowledgeable amongst us that day was
those who memorized the most.
The most who?
Memorized the most. Those who memorized the most,
they were the most
knowledgeable amongst us.
Also, Ibn Umar testify
to something.
And you tend to find it normally very
very difficult
if there is a contemporary that
lives amongst you
to actually
give a testification
to
the hard work that he has come with.
Because like I mentioned in my other lessons,
that has had, having envy is something that
is very
prevalent especially amongst students of knowledge. Are you
with me guys? And even scholars.
Okay?
So Ibn Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anway one time
said to Abu Hurayra,
And this hadith can be found in a
Tirmidi.
He said that,
you were from those who stuck
and was most consistent with
learning from the messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And he was also from those who memorized
the most from the hadith.
Also imam Shabir said,
He said,
you are not going to attain knowledge except
with 6 things. He said, I'm going to
elaborate
this for you.
The ka'un,
having intelligence.
Having
eagerness.
Striving hard.
Okay? Because you find some people who
have eagerness but then he's like a Musawif,
which means I'm going to do it. I'm
going to do it. I'm going to do
it. While at the same time he has
desire, right? He has much desire to do
so, but he doesn't work.
He delays it.
Also striving hard.
Means is
to have wealth
will really really help as well.
Okay? Will really really help. Of course,
not everybody we can't say this unrestrictedly. They
were from the poor who ended up attaining
so much knowledge that Abu Hurray radiAllahu ta'ala
was from them. But if a person has
wealth and is able to buy books,
because the knowledge is taken from where?
From the books, right? And if somebody has
been afflicted with poverty,
it could deprive him from getting that knowledge
from the books.
Also accompanying a Ustad.
And being somebody
who spends a long part of his life
studying knowledge.
Because Elme isn't just 1 year.
Elm isn't just 2 years.
It's a very long stretch
of time.
It's a trek as they say right? And
also accompanying a Ustad.
Being very close to him. Having these private
sittings with him.
He doesn't necessarily have to be a scholar.
That has reached maybe the level of Sheikh
Salih al Fuzhan,
Sheikh Abdul Muqshin al Khabab because it's very
very hard to accompany them.
This is one of the things that you
might suffer from when you go to Madinah.
Even to ask them questions as soon as
the lesson finishes, everybody is rushing towards them.
And you just might about get a question
in. But if you have a close Ustad
Okay? And he's very strong in that which
he teaches.
Like I've got a brother
in Al Medina called Muhammad Abdul Kareem Hassan
Hosh. Some of you might know that very
famous Sheikh in Somali called Abdul Karim Hasan
Hosh. And that Sheikh, he's very very knowledgeable.
I found this Sheikh
who is very very strong martial I accepted
now in his PhD.
Like I discuss things with him.
Things that I might not necessarily be able
to discuss with the Sheikh that's going to
sit on the chair. So we have discussions.
We go back and forth, if something is
maybe difficult for me, I take it to
him.
Okay?
Watul Uzzamani is spending, as I mentioned, a
long time
in seeking knowledge.
Atta,
the great Tabia, who is also a student
of Ibn Abbas, he said,
We used to come to
Jabir radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
And whenever we left him, we will start
revising the knowledge.
Abu Zubair
was the one who
knew most of the hadith
that Jabir ibn Abdilar radiAllahu ta'ala narrated.
And he Adarim
he was the one that narrated it, he
chaptered this Hadith
the chapter of
revising knowledge. But we're going to come on
to it later inshallah wata'ala
the benefit of
doing revision with
a roommate,
a classmate,
or whoever might be close to you. And
what that would do
to your knowledge.
Why Elm?
Why the Elm needs to be memorized? There's
a number of things.
And what the scholars they mentioned about it.
I always tell the brothers,
if he was to see
somebody now apostate, or he has doubts with
regards
to grave worshiping Mas'ilen.
Okay? He has doubts with regards to grave
worshipping. And then he comes up to you
and he asks you for a Dalil.
The guy is about to oppose, he has
these Kufri beliefs. He might leave you and
he's going to stay upon his shirk for
the rest of his life.
This is a catch opportunity.
Are you going to say to him, Akhil
let me go home, let me get the
Dalil,
and I'll come back to you.
Do you see why it is important for
you now to have this Dalil, this textual
evidences there ready and
prepared for you to give it to him
on a plate.
Just yesterday, just yesterday,
Imran was saying to me,
because I previously told him the same advice.
That he just finished a Jum'ah,
and a man came up to him. And
before the Jum'ah, I think he said to
me was either memorizing
And somebody actually came up to him and
asked him why he shouldn't
grave worship basically.
And he said had I not known
that hadith or the Ayafan,
the verse in the Quran,
I may not have been able to
advise this individual accordingly. And it would have
just left me with maybe some statements that
I gave him.
The poet he
says,
If you're not somebody as
and comprehension,
you just collecting books is not going to
benefit you.
Are you going to come to a sitting
and you bring your ignorance with you?
And your ilm is stuck in the warehouse?
Are you with me guys?
Also Abdul Azakas Sanani
says something very powerful.
Okay? Every knowledge that doesn't enter with you
into the toilet, don't consider
it to be knowledge.
Are you allowed to take your books, your
Sahih al Bukhari, your Sahih Muslim into the
toilet?
Hi, guys.
What about your memorization? Before you go into
the toilet, do you take your brain now
and leave outside?
He enters with you, right?
This is real
This is real
Also the poet
Ilm is not that which is carried in
bags
or boxes.
But rather the real is that which is
carried in your chest.
That which is going to be with you
at all times.
Also Imam Shafi'i
said,
My is with me wherever I go.
It follows me.
And my heart is a utensil for it,
not the inside of a box.
And then he said,
If I'm at home, the knowledge is with
me.
And if I'm at the markets,
I find also that the knowledge is with
me, wherever it might be.
This is vital to my brothers.
And you will see the difference between a
person who's memorized, and the guy who just
constantly reads.
And this is always going to be attached
to maybe an iPad, or maybe a book.
Also I heard Sheikh Salih ibn Abdillai Muhammad
al Usaymi say. And he heard
Sheikh Mohammed bin say.
Okay?
Mohammed bin sala
ibn Usayim Allah
He mentions them very very powerful.
He said,
We read a lot,
and we only memorize a little bit.
Are you with me my brothers
and sisters?
He said we read a lot.
And we memorized a little.
We benefited
from that which we memorize
more than that which we read.
And Sheikh Min Uthayim SubhanAllah guys was an
individual
who memorized Buluq Al Maram.
You know Buluq Al Maram is? A book
that consists of
1,500
Hadith depending on the Taba'a.
K? Depending on the taba and some taba
at a 1,376
from what I remember.
But you find that because of the tarteem,
the way they number the Hadith, it comes
out a bit more. So the point is
guys,
he memorized he memorized.
It's a fat book like this
in.
He also memorized alfib Numeric.
Thousand lines of poetry
in the Arabic language.
And all the books that he memorized from
the Mutoon books.
Are you with me guys?
And still he goes we only memorized a
little bit.
And from that which he memorized, he says
that he benefited
more from that than all the Mutala,
the books that he used to read.
I remember also Sheikh Salih al Fozan,
It's actually a clip online.
Just to show you how much he respected
Sheikh Mohammed bin Hadi.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Hadi had a question. He
was sitting in the in the main hall
in Jami'at Al Islamiyah,
Islamic University of Medina.
So just as as the Muhadra was about
to finish, Sheikh Mohammed bin Hadi put his
hand up.
Very well known Sheikh in Medina.
So the Sheikh started saying,
Muhammad Al Hakami wants to ask a question.
Muhammad Al Hakami wants to ask a question.
You know Hafid Al Hakami
was? Hafid Al Hakami was a memorizer.
Was somebody
who memorized the Quran in the month of
Ramadan.
He didn't die
much long ago as well.
He didn't die much long ago as well.
So they say he memorized the Quran and
then he would lead it in Taraweeh. 1
Jews every day and then he would lead
it. And there are so many lines of
poetry in different fields that he has.
So he was known like the from
the contemporaries
of this time.
Are you with me guys?
So the Sheikh, because Mohammed bin had was
somebody who used to memorize quite a bit.
So he ended up calling him Mohammed Al
Hakami. Wants to ask a question.
Also
Something very funny that happened in the time
of
Imam Al Ghazali Imam Al Ghazali one time
he was robbed by bandits.
Summarization
to try and get as much
in this
small period that we have. Imam Al Khazad
the
boxes that he had was robbed by some
highway bandits. And Imam Al Khazad
is running behind them.
He's saying to them all that which is
inside these boxes that you've nicked
is my books that I traveled for.
And that which I have documented. Please give
it back.
So
a thief is running away and he's hearing
Muhammad Al Ghazari
saying this,
and he stops.
So there was a bunch of thieves, the
biggest of them
started laughing at him.
He said to him,
How is it that you can claim
that you have knowledge?
Okay?
But when we in fact took these
boxes of yours,
all
of a sudden you became somebody who did
not know anything.
And you remain there without any knowledge.
The thief is laughing at him.
And then he felt sorry for him and
he gave him the boxes. He goes, go
take it.
Al Khazali
said,
This is a man who Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala made him speak.
To give me guidance
in my affair.
So he said he went back,
and for a whole 3 years he started
memorizing everything that he documented.
So if in the future,
highway bandits
ended up robbing his stuff again,
he wouldn't necessarily mind. Take it. My Elm
is with me in my chest.
A
thief
was the reason as to why Imam Al
Ghazali, rahimullah wa ta'ala,
and he had knowledge. Of course in his
Kitab I Haya al Umideen, there is quite
a number of issues in there. And some
scholars they spoke quite negatively about a Kitab,
but without shadow of a doubt.
His kitab and mustasfa,
the
really benefited from that we study today. In
JAMA'at al Islami and it's sometimes
very very tough to understand was taken from
the Mustafa, Imam Al Ghazal
He was somebody who was very very knowledgeable.
He was guided because of a thief.
In doing,
that which is best for him.
Also you find, if it's just for the
mere fact that the messenger of Allah SWAMI
told you to memorize is sufficient,
For you to be
somebody who gives his time to memorizing.
You find even in the Sharia.
The messenger
said,
Whoever memorizes.
The first ten verses
of Surah Al Kahf,
he will be protected
from the fitna of the Dajjal.
Also you find in Sahil Bukharim Abbas radiAllahu
ta'ala Anhu he said,
Jibril used to revise with the Messenger and
check his memorization.
Every year
he would check his memorization
once.
And before he died, he checked his memorization
twice.
Also the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he said in another hadith,
wajhamriin,
Samya amakalati fa wa aha fa hafilaha.
May Allah
glow in the face of an individual who
heard my speech.
Who heard my speech.
He comprehended it and he memorized it.
Okay guys? Messenger
made dua for that person who memorized the
Hadith.
Also when the
waft of ibn Abdul Qais, they came to
the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
in order to seek knowledge.
Okay? There were a group of people who
came to the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
They were called.
That's what it is referred to normally when
the discussion breaks out.
Maybe the best way to put it in
the English language
is
the group maybe who traveled to the messenger
from the tribe of ibn Abdul Qays.
The messenger
gave them a number of instructions.
And then
he said to them memorize it.
And inform
the people that you have left behind in
your cities, in the places that you came
from.
This is why you find after that
it reached a level of multitude how the
scholars
from the salif and those who came after
him, they always used to advise one another
to memorize.
And this is very very important guys.
So what do you memorize first?
What do you memorize first? And I'm gonna
go on a rant
here.
Shasal Ibn Abdullayhi Muhammad Al Usaymi, our teaching
haram some lines of poetry.
He says,
The first thing that you should start with
is by memorizing the Quran.
If you want to be a serious student
of knowledge, my brothers and sisters,
you have to have a fair share of
your time that you give to memorizing the
Quran. Because it's Aslululoom.
He said,
and also make you firm.
And then also master it.
Don't just memorize, remember guys, your memorization only
starts after you finished. The last page you've
read to your teacher, that's when it starts.
I remember the Malaysian teacher that I had,
and also some in Indonesia that used to
do this in the Maj. You finish the
Quran, you do 1 juz every single day
and it has to be like water. No
mistakes.
You make mistake you send back. Then the
next juice, then the next juice, then next
juice, 30 juice.
Are you with me guys?
30 juice. And then you do 2 juice
everyday. And then 5 Jews every day. And
then 10 Jews every day.
You do the Quran in 3 sittings. And
then 20 Jews and then you read the
whole Quran in one sitting.
It was done and it's possible for somebody
to do.
Are you with me guys?
And that's how you master it and also
the
the similar ayat in the Quran.
In another Ayah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
Can you see the similarities?
There's an extra harf, and the word at
the end changes.
Okay? So a person, he masters his
and then he says,
And at the beginning of seeking knowledge, try
to memorize a comprehensive text in every field.
That's obviously after you finish the Quran. Like
for example,
you have books like Surah Al Thalathah Qawai
that are very very small books.
In Tawhid you get one. In Musa Allah
Hadid you get one. Or Surah Al Fikhih
you do Waqat Methanen. In the science of
hadid you do Bayukuni which is 34
lines. It'll give you a base, a foundation.
And then I will guarantee you guys
that that sun, that field will become easy
for you.
Why the Quran guys?
He asked me
which is more beloved to you that I
start with? Do I teach my son the
Quran or the hadith?
He says,
teach him the Quran first.
Do I teach him all of it? He
said,
except if it becomes difficult.
You teach him some of it.
Okay? Ibn Muftahi
commented on this in his.
He said
Upon this you find that the followers of
Imam Muhammad
they treaded this path.
They treaded this path until this very day.
And also in the Tarjama,
of ibn Abihaat Imam Abu Allahu Ta'ala, Imam
Abu
father,
my father didn't allow me to busy myself
with hadith,
until I read the whole Quran on fatherly
Nisha Dan and Razi. So I kept the
Hadith, and that's when I started writing
down
the
Quran,
the Hadith.
Also Muhammad ibn al father, Rahimullah Ta'ala says,
my grandfather say
I sought permission from my father in order
to
go and seek knowledge with Khutayba. He said,
read the Quran first until I give you
permission.
So he said, I memorize the Quran,
So when he was done memorizing the Quran,
he told them, You can't leave until you
read.
Some of the scholars they say, you know
a true haven of the Quran until you
are able to lead.
That shows your strength in the Quran.
And that you're a real Hafid. He
said,
When 8 finished, he allowed me to go.
Also something very very funny is Waleed al
Muslim
said,
Every time we sat with Uzzai,
a great tabi'i. And he saw that there
was a young person with us.
Okay?
He said,
Oh son,
have you memorized the
If he said to him yes, he would
tell him to read, you'll see
Who can tell me about this ayat? It's
one of the most difficult ayat in the
Quran.
2nd page of Surah Al Nisa.
Which talks about inheritance.
He put him on the spot and tell
him to read it. How you read?
Okay?
If he said, I didn't memorize the Quran.
He would say to him, go learn the
Quran and then start to seek your knowledge.
What time is it?
6:40. 6:40.
Lamstan.
We need to really, really rush through this
because it's gonna go off. Right?
20 minutes.
Sa'ad on his way?
Babe.
Imam Abu Umar ibn Abdul Bar,
he says something very very powerful.
30 minutes. Okay.
Seeking knowledge, guys,
is of different levels.
Okay? And
one cannot
jump to the other when it comes to
seeking knowledge, you shouldn't do that.
Whoever try to be smart,
and tries
to jump over from one level to another,
you would find that this person now is
jumping over what the path of the salif
was when he came to seek a knowledge.
And whoever does that intentionally, he will end
up just misguiding himself.
And whoever does the Arabic jihad, he's trying
to do it
with good intentions, is trying to strive hard,
he will just end up
what?
And then he said,
the first I should memorize.
Okay? Until where he says
he says, I don't say
I don't say that it's fard.
I don't say
it's
fart. I say
Of course when we say that something is
And a person doesn't come with it.
His Ibad will be bottled. Right?
He's not saying that if you don't memorize
the Quran, then your
you seek a knowledge is bottled. Abba then
he's not saying that. But he's saying for
somebody who wants to become an,
then you find that it is.
It's mandatory upon him if he wants to
become a serious individual.
I remember Sheikh Salaman al Raheli, in the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's masjid, he was
asked,
O Sheikh there's some people who are telling
others, you don't need to memorize the Quran
because it's not Wajib.
You don't need to memorize the Quran because
it's not Wajib.
He said
That was his response.
He said
and then he just went on a rant.
I remember also, subhanAllah,
one of my chefs when I was in
Yemen, his name is Mohammed bin Hazam. He
was somebody who memorized Bukhari, Muslim, Riyad Salihin,
Bulohul Maram.
He also memorized the Abiyat of Amriti. He
He also memorized.
He used to always advise us.
Brothers
memorize.
Attending lessons is something that any everybody can
do. The grandma, the grandpa, the uncle, the
old person, the young person. Everybody can sit
and
enjoy the lesson. Right?
But heaven is difficult.
It's hard.
It requires a lot of energy. It requires
a lot of time. It will stress you
out. You're gonna have headaches.
But that's the real El.
That is the real El. Shafali bin Abdulai
bin Al Hamad Al Usami,
he said something very powerful. You can find
this
in
He
said,
You must memorize.
Whoever thinks that he's going to attain knowledge,
without memorizing is chasing the impossible.
He's chasing
the impossible.
Also this is a very very important statement
of attain
and then I'm gonna
jump
into
something
else.
He
says,
memorizing the Quran
takes precedence
takes precedence over a lot of things that
people today they call knowledge. It's either batil
or you find that it is
not so beneficial.
It only carries a small benefit.
And it also takes, is a priority,
takes precedence for anybody who wants to learn
the knowledge of the Deen with regards to
its fundamentals and also the sub branches of
it.
And then he goes on to say,
he goes on to say,
It is the Asar when you look at
all knowledges. It's the origin of it.
And pay attention to these guys.
This is vital information.
As opposed to what the a lot of
the people of innovation they do.
From the foreigners and other than them.
You find him that he busies himself with
that which is not necessarily a priority for
him
when seeking knowledge. Or from the extras of
knowledge. Maybe that's a better way to
translate it. From the extras of knowledge you
find some pieces of knowledge
that is part of your day to day
life, right?
And some things that you're not necessarily going
to
benefit you
in your day to day. For example now
a guy who doesn't learn any fiqh, but
then he goes and jumps to qira'at.
Doesn't know how to wash himself properly, doesn't
know how to pray, doesn't know how to
make wudu. Then he goes and jumps to
qira'at.
You see what I'm saying guys?
And of course Qira'at is something that is
important,
it's nice to have,
but it's not from the old way yet.
From the things that are foremost.
So you find him he busy himself
with the extras of knowledge.
And also maybe the issues that
carry a lot of disputes.
And you find him he's busy with argumentations.
Point
is guys, how much do we find?
Or how common is this?
That when you ask an individual about certain
aspects of the religion,
whether it might be from the sub branches,
or other than it,
he knows that Mas'allah inside out.
He knows Mas'allah inside out.
As to why maybe music is haram.
As to why? Maybe music is haram.
Of course it's important that you know why
music is haram.
But he knows this inside out. He's given
so much priority to it.
But when it comes to maybe knowing the
for
Abar Wudu, he doesn't know. You got reverts.
Who may start practicing, he tells you,
he just started practicing now.
Or even non reverse, somebody who just came
on to the deen, he's able to tell
you, this guy is a Muftaddiyah, and the
reason why he's an innovator is because of
this, and because of this, and because of
this.
I came to know about certain mashaikh in
Saudi Arabia
because of reverse mentioning it to me.
And maybe people who just started practicing mentioning
it to me. He knows the issues of
Bida'a, and why the salaf wouldn't sit with
the people in there, and so on and
so forth.
But with the basics of it he doesn't
know. Yes. It's important knowing it. But there
is what all are we at?
So he has gold passed, so he's able
to tell you everybody was misguided, but he
doesn't know how to make wudu properly. Or
how much the furod of wudu. And there's
times when these guys called me and they
started talking rubbish on the phone.
I asked him one question, what is the
furod of the wudu?
What is the fraud of the Uzzah? One
time he said 14, another time he said
no no no it's 8, and then he
goes on no no no
but you're asking me about so and so,
and why I might go to this Masjid,
and why I might go to that Masjid.
He never ever called me again, but before
that they were prank calling me.
With regards to hadith, what should a person
memorize?
Shasali ibn Abdillahi Al Hussain with regards to
hadith he says
With regards to hadith that we're currently studying
now.
Okay? You've memorized Arba'in, now we move on
to Umdat Al Hakam. You've memorized Umdat Al
Hakam, move on to Bulugramaram.
You'll memorize Bulohrimaram, go on to Riyadh Salihin.
This will end up building a very strong
student of knowledge, he says.
And then you move on to the and
then later on,
and so on and so forth.
Okay?
Guys, you like are you do you like
feel like that this is not maybe something
for you guys?
Because I know some brothers, they may look
a bit, oh, I don't think that's for
me, you know?
I can have high aspirations.
Like I told you guys before guys,
there was drug dealers.
Guys who were addicted to drugs, later on
they became Efad Ki Tabula.
Anything is possible, impossible should not exist in
your dictionary.
Believe
that you can fly.
Okay?
He says memorize the nasihab Usaymi.
Because one day you will begin to realize
what he mentioned.
One day you will realize what he's mentioning,
that this is the correct path of seeking
knowledge.
With regards to Bulwark Al Maram, as a
benefit,
Shasal al Husaim I heard him one time
say that he had Abdul Aziz Adhan say
that he asked Sheikh
Abdul Aziz ibn Baz
7 times of a comprehensive text to memorize.
Each time he said, Bulohu Maram.
Each time he said Bulug ul Maram. 7
times he was asked.
He could have said Bukhari, he could have
said Muslim, but he said Bulug ul Maram.
He said Bulug ul Maram.
And also Sheikh Sala Al Fozani says, whoever
memorized
text in the This
person is a Faqih.
This person is a Fakhi.
Because if you want to become very strong
in fiqh, it's highly advisable that you memorize
a Hadith, while at the same time you
memorize a Kitab in a millhab. It'll give
you the Masai, and at the same time
you're strong with the textual evidences.
And I asked many of the Mashaayik, I
remember asking Sheikh Abdul Mas'in al Abbad.
Sheikh, what do you advise me to memorize
after Buluul Maram?
Okay? He said have you memorized the Quran?
I said yes. Have you memorized Umdudu Al
Hakam? I said no. Because go memorize Umdudu
Al Hakam.
Go memorize Ummatul Hakam. So again this is
the same thing that Sheikh Abdul Mas'il Abad
he says.
Memorize the Quran, then Ummatul Hakam and then
Bulur Maram.
Likewise Sheikh Salih,
Cindy,
another teacher in the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi's Masjid,
he says the exact same order.
Quran. This is for those who have high
aspirations and want to become a memorizing machine.
In reality
you move on to the next step.
Also remember asking Sheikh Abi Islam, what
what one should memorize after Balohu Al Maram?
He said if you want to basically do
Istiab, to gather all the akham
of a hadith that talk about fiqh, go
for the kitab of almuntaka.
The kitab almuntaka.
And this is Asulil. You have to understand
guys,
Real Ilm is ayat and a hadith.
And what the companions said?
Ilm is not getting the statement of a
scholar,
and I'm putting it against a textual evidence.
With all due respect to him.
You will see guys, if you ever go
into da'wah,
or you're giving dawah to another individual
that might be a close relative of yours,
or very
close to you, a friend, or whatever,
when you give him a textual evidence,
how this individual feels?
As opposed to giving him this kalam,
empty speech, oh you know this sheikh because
he can bring his sheikhs as all.
But you find that this really resonates in
somebody's
heart.
The Quran will make you shake.
And the person feels embarrassed to have
anything opposing the Quran, or in against the
Quran. Are you with me guys?
And also when you go into the member,
what are you gonna tell the people?
You gonna talk rubbish to them?
You have to be quoting
Quran, Hadith and putting it into proper context.
This is real
That everybody will you find that either they're
not going to have anything to say or
they're going to accept from you because you're
giving them pure Elm.
You
see?
Every ilm other than the Quran is just
something that is going to busy you, except
hadith and getting an understanding of the religion.
The ilm is hadith.
And anything other than this is the whispers
of the shaytan.
Also, Imam Shaffir, exactly what I was saying
now.
Imam
Shafi'i said Whoever now has a constant habit
of looking into hadith, you find that it's
Huja,
his plea will become very very strong.
His plea will become very very strong.
Also I remember Sheikh Abdul Kareem and Khudair
one time when I was sitting in his
class,
in the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa'alehi was
just under the umbrellas.
He said
Whoever is somebody who constantly looks at the
hadith and is shuru had. His explanations, he
will end up having
a very strong ability when it comes to
knowledge.
So now 10 points Insha'Allah.
10 points inshallah.
How long do I have?
3 minutes.
17
minutes.
So Afon, before that, I was speaking about
the 3 important matters.
Okay?
The other thing is that you have a
habit of going back to the Mashaikh.
And studying the knowledge from a particular Sheikh.
Somebody is also upon the correct methodology.
Because you might come out of Nawakid al
Islam,
and your takfir happy, takfir excited.
As this has been the case of many
brothers who may be in prison at this
moment in time.
They open up Nawakid al Islam, Kafir, Kafir,
Kafir, Kafir, Kafir.
When it has a context, the scholars that
I studied with Nawakid al Islam, they all
had an introduction where they talked about the
preventative factors
of takfir.
Preventative factors
of takfir.
And it was a long Muqaddima.
And I just took that. When I told
the Muqaddima, you can find this on my
YouTube channel. I went through a whole Muqaddimah.
Because I'm telling you now,
if a person does not study Nawakad and
Islam properly,
he's going to be really takfir excited.
Everyone's going to end up maybe becoming a
kafir to him. He's going to think him
and his 10 friends are going to be
into the enter into a Jannah.
The width and the length of the Jannah
is what? Like the Samawat and the other.
Right? Him and his 10 friends are the
only ones that are going to be going
in there.
Because of the takfir that he does. I
remember, I think I read it in Sira
Alam Anubala.
A takfir was asked 1 there was 2
friends. 2 takfiris.
1 guy who made takfir of everybody.
So his friend who was more smart and
asked him, he goes,
only me and you are going to enter
into a Jannah,
And the Jannah is as big as the
Samawat and the ark.
Only me and you are going to Aljannah
because everybody else is kafir?
He was a Kharij as well. Because Musma,
he asked him. Allah tells us in the
Quran,
where he says,
So this very big place, in Jannah, only
me and you are going to enter inside.
Also,
Someone needs to have a habit
of constantly reading books. Are you with me
guys? You need to have a constant habit
of reading books. Because the elm is found
in there, and that's for a number of
reasons.
The first one is,
when you read books it helps you with
your Nahu.
The Arabic grammar that you learned here allows
you now to be somebody who
is grammatically correct.
Because the last thing you want is when
you're teaching a book later on or you're
reading to somebody, you're making so many grammar
mistakes.
So you read books yourself and you also
read on the mashayikh. If you have somebody
who knows his Arabic grammar properly
you read to him as well.
So the 10 points now Insha'Allah.
You guys wanna break?
You feel like you wanna maybe stretch your
hands, are you guys in a rush?
Okay. I think that's why.
So the 10 points very very quickly inshallah.
Before you read
Before you start reading, know that which you
are reading. Don't just rush and jump onto
books.
Because you might end up reading
at the beginning stages of
of seeking knowledge.
Is the explanation of Sahih Bukhari. The most
authentic book after the book of Allah. Or
you start practicing,
you know, and you think to yourself, oh
mashallah the most authentic book after the book
of Allah. Let me go for it.
He's reading a book that is completely
outside his ability.
And take it easy. Shayan for Shayan.
Take it easy.
So you know what you're reading is, don't
just jump into another one. That's why Yunus
ibn Yazid, he said,
Muhammad
al Shihab Azuri,
who was from the Tabia and he said
to him,
Don't try and rush to take knowledge all
at once.
Don't try and take it all at once.
Whoever tries to take knowledge all at once,
okay? You'll end up leaving it all together.
And I told you guys about the fitna
in
the maj. Right?
The big fitna of lessons.
Where everybody was so excited jumping here and
there one time he leaves it. I used
to beg brothers,
memorize the Quran.
This is the Asal of your ilm. You
need this more than anything. It will make
Tuhid
You're probably busy memorizing these Ayahs, right? If
you already memorize the Quran, everything will just
flow.
And then the Majj ended up being destroyed.
All those brothers who ended up leaving it
till very late,
Came back to the likes of the UK,
and Canada, and America.
And that's when the box life starts. You
get busy.
2nd point is.
Don't read
except
while you are attentive.
Okay?
Or even memorization. When you're memorizing,
make sure your mind is there.
Fully attentive.
Concentrating.
Not somebody who just came out of a
war zone in his house and then picks
up a guitar and there's a 101 things
on his mind. If
you want to memorize you need to free
your mind.
Okay? And I'll give you a piece of
advice. You guys want to memorize,
get rid of your phone at a time
of memorization.
The poet says I began to dislike the
Internet.
And it made me feel so tight.
And the reason why I dislike the Internet
is for a number of reasons.
Because also it's a very deep ocean.
And you find that it ends up wasting
a lot of your time.
On YouTube, on Instagram, you're just sliding sliding
sliding going down down down down down for
hours. And before you know it,
time's gone. Likewise on the YouTube recommended channels.
Click on this one, oh there's another video,
and another one, and another one, and another
one. That's what your phone does.
I know a lot of sisters who message
me, who may have kids, they say, Oh
sir I don't have any time.
You got 24 hours in your day.
You
can't find time even for 1 hour?
Get rid of your phone that's what I
tell them. Weeks later they message back, Oh
Allah I
got rid of my phone and I memorized
x y and z. There was a brother
in Madina who always used to advise, I
can memorize. Because allah he's really difficult.
I advised him get rid of your phone.
A week later he goes to me, guess
what Buteymya?
Guess what?
I switched off my phone. In 1 hour
I memorized 3 pages.
And before they couldn't do half.
And this brother is one of those guys
as soon as I message him, he's online.
He gets back to me.
Someone who's addicted to his phone.
Get rid of your phone guys if you
really want to get that knowledge.
The third point
Abbas, how long left?
The third point is
Be eager. When you are
reading guys or when you're studying
from a particular book.
Have that eagerness of not wanting
any benefit
to pass you.
Except that you ended up picking it up
just the same way you pick up what?
Lost property.
And now you've noted it down. You have
to understand guys,
a kitab is like a basket of
gems,
pearls
and diamonds.
When a thief comes in, breaks into somebody's
house.
And he finds a box, and he has
money in there, he has gems in there,
he has pearls in there. Is he going
to say, oh I'm gonna take this
and I'm gonna leave that?
He's gonna take everything. Right? He's going to
take everything
and
he's going to run with it.
And that's the same way one should be
with regards to the Kitab that he's reading.
There is gems and pearls in there. Don't
allow these gems and pearls to get away
except
that you've written it down.
Where did you write it down? On the
gila of your book.
Sorry guys the thing
Okay. So the third point is you write
it down. Try and get every single side
out of it. Where do you write this?
You write this on the Hilaf. You have
a book
on the cover, on the inside.
Okay on page
there was this benefit, on page there was
on this benefit, on the front likewise the
back. I'm not talking about the front of
the book, inside it.
Okay? That's where you write it.
The 4th point is,
make sure you have a pen at the
time of reading.
And the 5th point is
Be somebody
who's always carrying a pen.
And he's always carrying some scrap paper.
When you're reading
and outside when you're reading, when you're not
reading.
Are you with me guys?
A pen is a must.
And I told you guys before as well.
What made Abdulai ibn Amal ibn Aas
have more ahadith than Abu Hurairah? Because Abu
Hurayrah mentioned this once, and Imam al Bukhara,
the chapter of documenting and writing now knowledge.
Why? Because he used to write down and
none of us used to write down.
This is before the message of Allah made
dua for Abu Hurairah. Are you with me
guys? Later on Abu Hurairah became top of
the chart when it came to knowing and
memorizing a hadith.
But he used to write down.
He used to write it down.
Even the poet says.
Elm is like what a hunted animal.
And the way you tie up the hunted
animal, you got to write it down. That's
how is, you document it.
And then he says from
stupidity is that you take out time hunting
an animal, and then you leave in the
middle of everywhere.
For somebody to come and just take your
hard work.
This is exactly with regards to 'ilm.
Will tell you I remember hearing this from
Shasal al Cindy.
Said the Nadama,
the regret that a person might go through
when he really needed that Faidah.
But he didn't write it down upon hearing
it.
Sometimes you're in a car. You're in a
car, and you hear Sheikh Bimbaaz on the
radio. Sheikh Bin Uzzayimin, Sheikh Abdul Kareem and
Khudayim and other than them.
You hear an amazing If you don't have
scrap paper,
that is going to run away. It's gonna
get away from you.
Are you with me guys?
So you need to have a pen and
also scrap paper. The poet he said
The Talib he must have scrap paper, he
must have a pen. He writes whenever he's
walking and also when?
He's riding.
You're gonna start carrying scrap paper when you're
driving here.
I'm asking you guys.
In Saudi Arabia, you might be able to
get away with it. We're not here.
And I think I told you guys the
other day, right? About when,
the last day before I left, when I
wanted to go pray in the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam Masjid. Because normally we don't get
a chance to pray Fajr there. There was
this brother who was coming,
from very far after, waited for ages ages.
He's coming. He was a Talib alman. He
in fact stopped and decided
to take me to the Haram.
The guy is carrying a Muslim of Imam
Mohammed.
A
Muslim Imam Mohammed. This guy has already memorised
Bukhari and Muslim and everything. He could have
been siddha. He's now memorizing Muslim and Mohammed.
Every time he stopped, a red light would
take out his pen and he would start
writing down the notes and everything.
So Afan the 5th point was, that you
need to be carrying,
okay? A dafdar.
Be somebody who carries a dafdar at all
times like a notepad, and and anytime you
find
a make sure you write it down.
Point number 6 is,
Hear the Sheikh even though I mentioned it
before, he singled it out. But I just
mentioned it because it was Bil Munas Saba,
because it was
suitable to mention it. The 6th point he
singled it out, he said, Any fire that
comes past you make sure you write it
down on the gilaf of the kitab. This
was point number 6.
Number 7,
After you've written down, you've got a whole
load of Fawayd in different books.
Okay? Try and get like benefits
with one another.
For example today you read the
and you ended up getting a benefit
with regards to the Qadr Methylene.
Later on you read another explanation, you've got
another fa'idah there that speaks about Al Qadr.
Get these together.
Get these together.
And on point number 8, he says,
If you're somebody who wants maximum benefit,
make sure you have different books.
Different
exercise books, quite big ones, which you put
all the benefits
of aqidah methylene in one book. All the
benefits of fiqh in one book. And obviously
now because previously I mentioned you need to
get like benefits and put it together. Right?
Now you're going to put it all in
your Aqeedah book.
All the benefits of Qadr you put it
somewhere. All the benefits of the Asma'at, the
names and attributes of Allah you put it
somewhere. All the benefits pertaining to the hereafter,
you put it there, and so on and
so forth.
Point number 8, and this is very, very
important.
Sorry, 9. Point number 9.
I'm rushing here. That's why.
If you want this
ilm,
if you want this ilm to stay with
you, and to become solidified,
okay? And you want to benefit from it,
be somebody who is eager to do 2
things.
Be eager
to do 2 things.
All these benefits that you've documented,
make sure you are someone
who revises every now and again. Like maybe
weekly.
All these benefits that you've
gathered weekly,
try to revise, or maybe monthly, or maybe
once a week, Methanen.
You have a jedwal, every Monday I'm going
to revise fiqh, every Tuesday I'm going to
revise akhida. Every Wednesday I'm going to revise
Musaal Al Hadith. And then maybe on Sunday
I'm going to revise just the general benefits
that I documented.
And then the second point is,
be somebody who has a partner,
sits with him and revises the knowledge.
This is why some you find certain students
of knowledge, just a random guy he meets
him, he goes, I wanna tell you a
fa'ida.
He is doing that so he can solidify
that fa'ida in his mind.
Okay? And take this from me guys.
The best way
to solidify knowledge in your mind is, and
to keep it in there,
is to have a Zameel that you mentioned
is Fara to.
Even your wife sometimes instead of just talking
rubbish with her all day long, or you
might not even have anything to talk about,
tell her about Faida
And try to make it interesting.
Into like a role play. Imagine now we
had this seller. He went into the shop
and he done this. And then he said
this with regards to the transaction, would this
be correct? What do you think my darling?
Things like that.
And
at all times you find that is
It becomes firm in your mind. Point number
10.
Point number 10.
Oh, this is one of my favorite ones.
Documenting the benefits that you find on the
internet.
Like on Whatsapp Methanen.
And a shout out to the brother who
made that group called Muntaqad Duat.
Just from that group
guys, when I check it sometimes,
I've gathered maybe over 200 pages of benefits,
just from that one WhatsApp group.
How do you get it?
You star it. You guys know how to
star messages now?
Start the message,
then click on settings, then go to start
messages.
What you do is, you transfer it your
email, you send it to yourself, then you
put it on word.
There's a lot of hawai that sometimes comes.
And you think to yourself, SubhanAllah is thinking
about this. Well of course you need to
go check it.
Because there's also a whole load of rubbish
that gets spread on the internet.
So you need to check it. So you
have WhatsApp.
Because it comes with benefits sometimes as well.
And you also have Twitter Methanolin.
You might be following certain Mashiach, certain students
of knowledge, he posts benefits from Ibnu Kayin
Methanolin.
Okay?
What you need to do is you need
to
There's a Right at the corner. You press
something and then a pop up comes up.
Press at tweet to bookmarks.
At tweet to bookmarks.
And then it takes you to your bookmarks.
You have so many for why that you
maybe gather over the years.
And I will guarantee you guys,
years that pass by, you will have documents
and documents and documents of benefit. That's just
from social media.
That's just
from social media. You might wanna print it
out and leave it somewhere.
Okay?
How long left? 4 minutes. Okay. I'm gonna
try and rush this inshallah.
And after all of these guys,
you need 2 things.
And I've spoken something similar about it, in
that video that's online called
I was asked a question when I went
to Manchester,
How can we memorize?
I could have gone into techniques, but that
which is more important is these two matters.
Okay?
You need to be somebody who is Istihad,
who works hard.
Okay?
And you also need to be somebody who
constantly begs Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Ibrahim Masrud,
some lines of poetry,
where he says
When you ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala asking
for Tawfiq.
In the knowledge that you seek.
And also be sincere in that which you
ask.
And when you call on to Allah Subhanahu
wa Ta'ala,
be somebody who admits his sins.
Be somebody who admits his sins.
The same way
Yunus Alaihi started waslam when he was stuck
in the stomach of the whale.
He said,
He said, oh Allah was from those who
oppressed himself.
Help me.
It indicates
There's a difference if there was a wow
or a fa. Fa means it happened straight
away. We responded back to him.
And on the poet he says,
Be somebody who keeps knocking that door.
Because the more the the when you keep
knocking on that door it is expected
that your
request is going to be
answered to.
This is something that we really really need
to constantly beg Allah Azza wa Jal. It
could be one Du'a that you make.
And you can't memorize the Quran that Allah
just opens the door for you. And you
can memorize
3
pages at once.
And many of the scholars will tell you
that, go and read the
stories of the Salif.
How difficult they found it. They say it
by Sheikh Abdul Zakal Badr, and I've heard
it more than once.
And allahu 'alayhiam I'm going to mention anyway.
Sheikh Abdul Zakal Badr is one of the
most sought after Masayikh in Al Medina. You
see it was from those who really found
difficulty
in studying.
And now you go and listen to him,
he's one of the very few Moshaydah that
I could say every time I say to
him, he touches my heart.
Very eloquent, knowledgeable individual.
I remember also, and I really don't like
mention, but I'm gonna mention it to you
guys.
Because I keep feeling that maybe some of
the brothers are sitting here today,
They just feel like no, you know I
don't think I can.
Wallahi Alim guys. I would sit from 19
to 20 hours to try and memorize 1
page of the Quran. One page.
When I was in Yemen in the
place called Darul Musa, it was a Sufi
camp. Before obviously I went to the Maj.
19 to 20 hours.
Just trying to memorize that one page.
Okay? I'd go to the teacher as if
I didn't memorize anything.
Absolutely nothing.
Even he would be surprised.
Like these guys have been sitting every time
I go to the message, sitting there. Until
like I became stressed out. It affected my
health. To be sitting x amount of hours,
and I'm not sleeping much, can be a
problem for somebody.
And one thing they said to me is
go and pray at night and ask Allah
From
the good advice that I was given.
And wala al-'adeem guys,
before I knew I could see myself memorizing
3 pages
in maybe 45 minutes.
And this is not because of my strength
or my Zakah,
because I'm a very very forgetful person. Until
this very day my dad
switches at me.
I sometimes forget to lock the door, I'm
just like that.
Doesn't mean you're gonna come and rob my
house now.
But there's people who double, triple check.
I'm just like that, and he gets really
angry at me. But the point is,
with a Dua anything is possible. And with
a student of knowledge,
impossible shouldn't exist.
You gotta believe and it can happen.
You're the most dumbest of people, you can
become the most intelligent.
This is why
Sheikh Ali 17
said
Whoever strives and also seeks assistance from Allah
And if somebody who constantly says astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah.
What is that and also?
It is a must that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala gives him from his virtue,
and his grace that which even the mind
can't imagine.
Sheikh al Islam used to do that. Sometimes
he would do his takha for a 1000
times if he couldn't understand something.
And after that he would be able to
understand the issue that he was having difficulty
with.
Also, Sheikh Saladin Abdullah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah
Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah
Alhamdulillah
Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah
You're not going to attain knowledge
with having superior
memorization.
And also not having efficient understanding.
And also having
or being somebody who constantly attends lessons.
You will only attain knowledge,
through being truthful to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
You can be intelligent, you can have somebody
who has a strong zakya,
strong memory, but you're not going to attain
anything except if you're somebody who constantly ask
Allah has that relationship with him, by being
truthful in that which you're seeking.
And in Ikhlas, we've spoken about it a
number of times.
And I see Sheikh Abdelazak Al Badr.
And perhaps he's doing this,
in that which we mentioned.
Seeking the aid of Allah. Every time he
goes to the, I try to follow him
one time. Every time he goes to the,
he goes and drinks Zamzam. And before he
drinks it, he thinks.
And we know, Azamzamullima,
shuri balahu.
For whatever you intended,
when drinking the Zamzam, you're going to get
that.
And perhaps he's asking Allah as the wajallahuwajallahuwah
who is best
To
aid him and assist him in the lesson
he's about to deliver. I want to mention
this to Sheikh alaihis
salam
who is one of the teachers in haram.
And he said he's perhaps doing that because
He is trying to seek an assistance from
Allah Azza wa Jal. They say teach him
the haram.
So how about any of us guys?
And the second point is
okay. That you need to have a lot
of Istihad and I've mentioned this time and
time again. If you want knowledge in the
lines of poetry
A summarization of what these lines approach is
of.
And a summarization in what these lines of
poetry
is. If you really want to attain
loftiness, you have to work hard. You have
to have sleepless nights. You can't say I
want to attain loftiness while at the same
time you're sleeping at night.
And then he gives an example of a
person who's ready to dive into the sea
and risk his life for gems and pearls.
Are you with me guys? To risk his
life for gems and pearls.
Are we ready to do the same when
it comes to knowledge?
And I mentioned it before as well. Okay?
In the Maj, I knew guys who were
saying even though the Houthis were trying to
kill everybody there, and they were throwing bombs
at the Markaz. They're saying no we're not
going back until
we find knowledge.
Elm does not come with the relaxation of
the body. As Yaheb Nabi Kathir said.
Sheikh Suleiman, one time I heard him say,
Rahili, in the haram, he said Al Muzakil.
Al means very heavy. And
those who are patient are only a few.
And those who become scholars are only a
few,
a minority within a minority.
Are you with me guys?
So you have to strive,
you have to sleep next night and be
somebody
in your sujood who begs Allah
Be even somebody who asked Allah to make
him like imamal
The giving of your Lord is not restricted.
Anything is possible guys.
Anything is possible.