Abu Taymiyyah – 5 Sins That Prevent Knowledge
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Discuss something that is relevant for anybody who's
trying to taste the sweetness of ilm
or shall I say
he's trying to taste the sweetness of the
Quran.
Because my brothers and my sisters,
we may have tried and tried and tried,
but it just doesn't seem to be happening.
Because maybe my brothers and my sisters,
there is preventatives,
something that is stopping us
from being able to attain the Anur, the
light.
And you have to understand my brothers and
my sisters and this is what
Imrajawd mentioned in his terbisu Iblis. He says,
The first deception of Iblis
was to block the people away from knowledge
because this is a light.
If he manages
to switch off the light, he will throw
them into the darkness.
So the Iblis, my brothers and my sisters,
is always trying in different ways and forms
in order to block an individual away from
attaining the Anur.
My brothers and my sisters in my years
of seeking knowledge when I was in a
Yemen
and also while being in Madinah,
I always used to wonder why?
Why is this brother struggling?
He's not dumb.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave him intelligence.
He tries to open the book of Allah
After 2 minutes he closes it. He opens
it again. 2 minutes after that he closes
it. He goes and he comes back, tries
to read it, just doesn't seem to be
happening.
And like I said to my brothers and
my sisters, it's not that he's dumb
or he has learning difficulties.
This ilm, my brothers and my sisters, is
not like
learning medicine or engineering and things like that.
This ilm is different, there's a tariqah for
it.
And there's a number of things that stop
and prevent an individual
from being able to attain that ul,
and Insha Allahu Ta'ala in this sitting,
I would like to discuss some of these
points.
The first issue my brothers and my sisters
is
It is to purify the vessel
of knowledge
and that is the heart.
1 has to purify the heart
And as our Sheikh Salib bin Abdullah bin
Hamid Al Hussaini mentions
in his Kitab kota'adeemulil,
the more pure your heart is, the more
that will enter inside of it.
And I would like to mention
my brothers and my sisters,
3 types of diseases and illnesses of the
heart
that you find that the
the student who is trying to attain knowledge
or is trying to attain the sweetness of
the Quran
is being
afflicted
with a lot of the time.
1 is general and the other 2 are
more specific.
The first point my brothers and my sisters
that comes under this is in general,
sinning.
One time my brothers and my sisters,
Imam Shafi'i
sat down in front of Imam Malik.
2 great scholars from the 4 great ima.
We have Imam Ahmed, Imam Bu Hanifa,
Imam Shaifir, Imam Malik.
Imam Sha'afir
he sits down in front of Imam Malik.
Imam Malik sees how sharp and intelligent he
is.
You know what he says to him my
brothers and my sisters?
I can see that Allah has
placed a Noor in your heart,
a light in your heart.
Do not extinguish this light with the darkness
of sinning.
When Ibn Ntayim listed
a whole load of effects of sins
in his kitabadaawaddua,
the first effect of sin
that he mentioned was
to be deprived of knowledge.
Your memorization begins to be get affected.
You want to taste the sweetness of the
Quran is not happening.
Why? Because
you might be somebody who
is involved in sin
and then he brought this example, this incident
between Imam Shafi rhamullah ta'ala and also
Imam Malik.
We know the famous lines of poetry, right?
Imam Shadr
says I complained to Waqir who was a
teacher.
My bad memory
He told me to leave of sinning
He told me that this ilm is a
Nur
and this light, this Nur is not given
to somebody who is a sinner.
You know, my brothers and my sisters, Imam
Shavrah
his
hifd was so good.
He had to cover one side of the
book
just so the other side can go in
because if he doesn't cover it, he'll end
up getting mixed up. That's how powerful his
was.
Imam
Waqir ibn Jarrah, his teacher could have easily
said to him, don't worry,
your glory days are behind you.
You got nothing to worry about. You've memorized,
you've studied, you've taught.
You're at the end of your life, you're
old now. He didn't say that to him.
He said to him, leave off sinning.
And You know, they also say my brothers
and my sisters, his memory became affected
because of him seeing the ankles
of a woman which had bangles on there.
The ankles he saw it and it affected
his memory.
Imagine in this day and age
where the society that we're living in has
been so sexualized.
It's half naked, I think maybe saying half
naked
is an understatement of how women are walking
outside today,
especially in the last few days. Right?
Thursday was the hottest day of the year
in the UK.
Looking at things like that my brothers and
my sisters,
or watching things that one shouldn't be watching
on the Internet,
on Instagram,
especially Instagram my brothers and my sisters,
especially Instagram.
When some brothers they gave me an account
many years ago, they gave me a piece
of advice. You know what they said? Don't
click on the search bar.
Because of the filth and the evil that
comes up from there.
My brothers and my sisters, I always wondered
why
why Imam Al Shafi'i went to wakir even
though he had many teachers? Why did he
specifically go to him?
Then I found something in
Lizzahibir Rahimullah Ta'ala.
That Alib Nakashram,
he said,
I never ever saw
Waqir
ever carrying a book, the man who advised
Imam Shabir
Everything that he ever mentioned was from the
top of his head.
Are you with me my brothers and my
sisters?
So we asked him,
What is the cure for forgetting
and memory loss?
He said to him if I was to
tell you are you going to act upon
it? He said Dear Allah, I will.
He said to him
leave of sinning,
I haven't tried anything like it.
That's what Waqir Najarah
was known for.
You know, my brothers and my sisters,
my parents from a very young age, they
used to say to me,
especially my mother, she used to say, Muhammad,
if you want to memorize the Quran, you
won't be able to do so if you're
listening to music as well. These are two
things that don't come together.
And I used to look at her, what
on earth is she talking about?
How is that even possible? What do you
mean?
Why can you not do both at the
same time?
But you know when we're young, we always
think that our parents are backwards.
Right? They don't have a clue what they're
talking about.
Later on, my brothers and my sisters,
I came across a line of poetry by
Ibn Taym
He
says
The love of music
and the love of the Quran
are 2 things that cannot come together
in the same heart.
It's impossible and Allah is very very true.
You will keep being held back.
My brothers and my sisters, there was a
brother who was in the same class as
me.
He was from the west, he did not
have learning difficulties.
Our week in Saudi Arabia when we're studying
in Medina, it starts on a Sunday.
Over here in the UK, it's Monday.
Every time he walked in on Sunday,
I could see there was something wrong.
His face looked different
and this is from the effects
of sinning my brothers and my sisters
that when one sins it starts appearing on
his face.
Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anumai said this, he said
The good deed that one does,
he puts a glow on his face
and the bad deed that he does, it
starts making his face dark.
He was struggling
in his exams, in his studies, he was
falling behind.
Wallahi I saw this brother, it's as if
he had invisible chains.
Invisible chains in the jami'ah.
One time I was walking home and I
advised him. The moment I started speaking to
him about sins
and credit to him, he was very very
attentive. He was like, say that again, what
did you say?
He took it straight on board.
You know, later on my brothers and my
sisters,
he called me on the phone
just as we are about to break up
for the summer holidays.
He kept on calling me, kept on messaging
me. Like, what's wrong with his brother? He
knows that everyone's getting ready to go back.
So I went to me and when we
sat down in the Masjid.
You know, when brother says, the first thing
that he said to me, brother, I want
to kill my girlfriend.
And I'm sitting in a masjid
with him.
Like, where do I even start in advising
this individual?
Normally, you wouldn't think
that somebody was left his home,
he lives in Europe, he came here all
the way here to be involved in such
a thing
but not everybody my brothers and my sisters
that goes to the university
who is studying abroad
is always as righteous as we may think.
Some people get accepted but they still have
a lot of baggage with them, which continues
on with them when they get there.
Are you with me, my brothers and my
sisters?
And I said to him, do you remember
when I advised you? He said, yes, that's
why I called you.
And you wonder why my brothers and my
sisters, why he was struggling?
One time he said to me, brother, I
wanna get a bit more serious. I said,
come to the Haram.
That brother can't sit in the Haram.
He's agitating to leave.
He has invisible chains on his hands and
likewise his feet that is stopping him.
I've had other brothers my
brothers and my sisters
who was addicted to watching *,
he's crying,
his eyes out, breaking down in front of
me, and when sitting in the Haram.
He's addicted,
he's trying to study, he's trying to memorize,
it is not happening.
This is a big effect of sin.
So that leads me to another point my
brothers and my sisters, something that Raghib al
Asfahan
mentioned.
And this is something that is relevant in
this day and age.
He mentioned this 100 of years ago.
But recently when I was pondering upon the
statement, I said, SubhanAllah,
out of amazement.
You know what he said guys?
You know how we are always told, right?
And it's right.
No doubt about it.
That the people we hang around with will
affect
the way we become. Right?
The bad friend is going to affect our
attitude and our behavior.
Our parents tell us this all the time.
He says, it is not only what we
hear and what the people what the people
do around us that affects us. It's not
only that.
He says
It is also by looking at things that
affect an individual.
My brothers and my sisters,
this social media, the filth and the evil
that is on there
is one of the biggest destroyers
of your pursuit of knowledge, and you're trying
to have a relationship with the Quran.
Like I said to you guys earlier, right,
the brothers, they gave me an account on
Instagram even though I didn't want it, but
they told me all the kids are on
there.
But they said to me, don't press on
the search bar.
The filth and the evil, and you wonder
why. I remember when I was in Yemen,
one of the mashaikh, he called it fit
in a gram,
And he called Facebook fisgh book,
the book of transgression.
And Wallahi is very, very right
and correct why they would say that.
Just about everything you click on, there is
the opposite agenda.
And every time you look at something you
shouldn't be looking at,
take it this way, that you're gonna forget
something that you memorized.
And an extra dot is placed on your
heart, which is what's going to seal it.
Another thing that I want to mention, my
brothers and my sisters,
is what Ibn Hajjar al Askalani
Ibrahim Allahu Ta'ala. Ibn Hajjar al Askalani was
the one who
explained the most authentic book after the book
of Allah which is al Bukhari,
sah.
He was speaking about an individual called Al
Hafid ibn Nasind.
My brothers and my sisters, you cannot receive
this title of being called the haafid
until you've memorized
a 100000 hadith.
That's when you get this title of hafid.
You know what he said about hafid musind?
When he was speaking about
his life?
Quran. He forgot the majority of what he
memorized. He also forgot the Quran.
You know why
guys? It was because he was known
to constantly rip into
the
honors
of
others.
He always used to speak about others.
And this is something that I've seen over
the years as well my brothers and my
sisters. Individuals
who have been trialed
with Al Jurh with Tajiri.
Sitting around,
ripping into the
flesh of other scholars
and also other students of knowledge
over issues that wallahi has no basis whatsoever.
There's a difference between when you say so
and so,
he's got something wrong and we need to
stay away from that mistake that he fell
into.
But sitting around joking about people's honors,
calling other people innovators and kuffar,
even though calling other people kuffar and inn
is part of our religion, but these brothers,
they weren't doing it
properly. Aslan is not even their place to
do it.
These are big huge issues of our religion.
A lot of the time, my brothers and
my sisters, I see in them, they left
Yemen.
And even today in the university,
I see them dropping out 1 by 1,
and I know exactly who they are.
Their hearts have become so hard,
khalas.
Their desire to carry on seeking knowledge is
no longer there
because his heart has been sealed.
There is something preventing him.
Just because you may have been saved from
looking at things you shouldn't be looking at,
the shaitan comes from another door.
This other door is what?
You need to give victory to the religion.
How? By speaking about
so and so to protect so and so.
Is all empty speech.
So generally speaking, my brothers and my sisters,
sins is going to stop you
from memorizing.
Maybe your parents are trying to take you
to Dixie.
You're trying to memorize,
then you go home, you've already forgot and
then you try and then you forgot.
You have to understand what is wrong,
why you are finding difficulty.
The second point my brothers and my sisters,
Alim Luqaddam
he mentioned this in Muqtasr min Hajul Qasidin.
He says,
He mentioned 3 things
That which prevents a person
from gaining an understanding of the Quran and
also tasting the sweetness of it. He mentions
3 things. The first one
was He is somebody,
he is continuously sinning and we've already discussed
it.
The second thing my brothers and my sisters
he says,
He is somebody who is arrogant.
He has that
fault of being arrogant.
Allah shakkawalaray
my brothers and my sisters,
this is one of the
greatest a la'ik
from the biggest obstacles that a student faces
and preventative that prevents their il from entering
into his heart.
He has to remove that keeper, that arrogance
from his heart.
The messian sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he was asked,
what is al kibr? He said
to be neutral all this
and to also reject the truth.
In nutamia,
Rahimullah
Ta'ala he says
and you can find this in Majma'al Fatawah.
Wakatheerun
minalmuntasibeena
ilalalalm
yubtalabil
kibr
Many people
who ascribe themselves back to knowledge,
they are trialed with what? They are trialed
with arrogance.
The same way the people of Ibadah are
trialed with what? With shirk.
Then he goes on to say,
they are then deprived
of the reality of knowledge.
Ibn Taym has
some nice speech
with regards
to Mensah Al Khibr, how the arrogance comes
about.
He says
Arrogance my brothers and my sisters
is a consequence
of being self amazed
with oneself.
He became self amazed with himself.
He's proud of himself.
And when Abdulai ibn Mubarak, my brother's al
Masih was asked
about Al Kibir he said, and tazdari and
naz to be led to others, then he
was asked about the urjib.
He responded back and he said
He sees himself to have something that other
people don't.
He's walking on the face of this earth
thinking that he's better than others
and then that causes him what later on
to
always think that he's right
and everyone else is wrong
And because of that,
he belittles others and he also what?
Rejects the truth when it's brought to him.
I know something really really powerful that touched
Mahab when I read Fudayr ibn Ayaat the
great tabiye. When he was asked about Tawadah,
we all want Tawadah my brothers and my
sisters. These are Gedalik.
This Sifa, this characteristic the messenger Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam said
Never does a person humble himself except Allah
raises him. Right? And we all wanna be
raised in his dunya and likewise, the akhira.
He said,
to submit to the truth and to lower
yourself for it.
Then you know what he said, guys? And
here comes the catch.
Even if you was to hear it from
the most ignorant of people, you accept it.
Even if you was to hear it
from a little kid, he comes and he
corrects you, you accept it.
Sometimes you're the imam
or sometimes you're someone who is in a
very high position. A little 14 year old
or 11 year old comes up to you
and says, you made a mistake.
Hello. Are you gonna turn around and say,
I memorized the Quran 20 years ago, who
are you to come tell me?
You wanna tell me and I'm older than
you,
Will Allah have heard with these very two
ears
a man saying,
I've been in the dua
before you knew what sandwich was.
I've been in the dua before you even
knew what a sandwich was.
He knew the way of the salif
before others knew what the sandwich was. Who
used to come tell me what's wrong and
what's wrong?
A little kid, my brothers and my sisters,
I heard
some elders say,
I used to wash your urine. Now you
wanna tell me what's right and what's wrong?
This Sifa, my brothers and my sisters, Sifa
Tun Iblisiyah,
Shaitaniyah,
Firawniyah.
Isn't this what kicked Iblis out of the
Jannah that he was in?
Where the sin stem off from, the foundation
where of where the sin stem off from
are all 3. The first thing that he
mentions is what? Al kibr, arrogance.
This is what caused Iblis to become whatever
he became.
You want me
to prostrate to someone you created from clay?
It was also it was always
I am better than him.
You created me from what? Fire. And you
created it from clay. And you want me
to prostrate him?
When Allah
told him to come with that which you
told him to come with, and that is
the truth. But he refused.
Then ibn al Taym, he says,
al kufru minal kibri.
The kufr that a person falls into the
disbelief,
it comes and stems off from what originates
from the arrogance that one comes with.
Also, my brothers and my sisters, wasn't this
what Firoun came with?
Musa alaihis salat waslam comes to him and
he tells him the truth.
Didn't we
nurture you as a young child? He told
Musa that. And you spent a part of
your life with us. Now you wanna come
tell me what's wrong, what's wrong? Get the
* out of here. That's what he told
him.
And you know what's even more difficult than
that my brothers and my sisters
is to accept the truth sometimes from people
that we hate.
In this way, Nur ibn alhamallahu ta'ala mentions
that sometimes our ego gets in the way
and it's really difficult. I'm not gonna sit
here,
talk like it's something that is easy. Wallahi,
it's not.
This is why Imam Ataym said,
You will not be able to reach the
level of being humble
until you accept the truth from the people
that you love
and the people that you hate.
That is a tawaduah.
So that brings me, my brothers and my
sisters, how this is relevant to the students
of knowledge.
Some things that I've witnessed.
2 brothers, they start the university the same
time. One of them started seeking knowledge,
or akhwan. 1 of them started practicing before
the other.
Both of them need that lesson that's being
opened up.
But the one who started practicing before the
other,
he doesn't want to attend lima'adah.
He doesn't want the other guy to see
that he's needy or he doesn't know. Hadakibr.
Had a kibr.
Mujahid, the student Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu was
asked,
he said
2 people don't learn.
The one who's arrogant and the one who's
shy. The one who's arrogant
thinks he knows you all.
This is very very prevalent, guys.
Well, I I met some scholars.
I give you guys an example of 1
sheikh who is a teacher in the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam's masjid.
That's the highest level that you could become
or reach
to be able to teach in front of
the grave.
When another sheikh comes from Riyadh to teach
firth,
this other teacher goes and sits down. His
name is what? His name is Sheikh Aymir
Bajid.
Shahadu Salam al Shuhayar comes, he goes and
sits down right in the front, not like
in the back.
He acts like
he doesn't need the way. In fact, he's
trying to listen.
He needs their because sits right in the
front,
pen and paper.
And still, when you look at that sheikh
who sits right in the front and he's
taking down notes, Wallahi is very young in
age.
And I used to wonder how did he
get a chair
so young in age?
And it made sense to me later on
because he was. He was somebody who was
so humble. When you talk to him, he
doesn't talk to you like he is more
higher than you
or he's got more knowledge than you. Not
at all.
That brings me to a point to my
brothers and my sisters, Ibn Akbas radiAllahu ta'ala
Anhu. He was a wonderful example when it
comes to being.
If you want this knowledge, my brothers and
my sisters, you have to be the type
of individual who is ready
to wipe his forehead on the floor out
of humility.
Walking around with a pen and paper, what
was that faydah? You said again, and he
takes it down.
Sometimes you mention a fadhi to somebody,
he acts like he knows but he doesn't.
He just doesn't wanna show it because he
believes this is a weakness or people are
going to think that he doesn't know.
But the person who's
when he hears something, he doesn't shy away
from saying, oh brother, send that to me,
Oh, let me hear that again.
My
brothers and my sisters,
He was very young when the messenger
died. Right? They say he was around maybe
7 or 8.
And Ibn Abbas
the messenger
made dua for him. Right?
Oh, Allah teach him the Quran. Oh, Allah
teach him the interpretation of the Quran.
Oh Allah give him an understanding of the
religion. Different riwaya, different
narrations.
He could have easily said the messenger made
du'a for me sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
I don't need to go and seek knowledge.
I don't need to go sit in the
circles
where the poor are sitting.
I'm the cousin of the mess sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. I'm from Arubayt.
I am from the family of the mess
sallallahu alaihi. My lineage is honorable and still
the messes salaam made du'a for me. He
did not say that.
You know when the messes salaam passed away,
he said to an Ansari,
Let us all go to the messianas salallahu
alayhi wa sallam
his companions.
For indeed there's many of them today.
There's many of them today. Let's go. He's
telling the Ansari.
You know what the Ansari said to him?
Do you really really think, ibn Abbas, people
are gonna need what you have when there's
so many of the companions?
Ibn Abbas said I turned away from
him. Ibn Abbas, my brothers and masters, were
the type of individual
who would take his
How do you guys feel about Thursday, my
brothers and my sisters? How hot he was?
We was burning.
It was really, really hot.
Really, really hot.
The type of heat they have in the
Arabian Peninsula is very different, my brothers and
my sisters, from the wonderful British weather.
After Duhr, he would go to the house
of Muadh ibn Jabel. He would put his
scarf on like that
because it was dusty as well. It was
hot. Then he would go sit on his
doorstep
waiting for his teachers to come out.
When Muadhim Njib radiAllahu ta'ala comes out, says
to him, imal Abbas, o cousin of the
messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, if you told
me
I would have come to you is Allah.
Traveled to,
not the other way around.
He
would sit there at the doorstep
in humility
waiting for that il so he can attain
it. Also my brothers and my sisters, sometimes
Eid ul Mustafa would be on top of
his riding animal.
If Nur Abbas is a student, right, he
would take the riding animal by the reins.
He would be the one that is taking
it,
Saydibrathabdill
feel bad.
No Abbas, why are you doing this? He
shouldn't be doing this.
This is what we were commanded with to
do with our scholars.
Humbleness,
humility.
Swipe you find,
he says,
The most knowledgeable when it comes to the
tafsir
are the people of Mecca. Why?
Liyanamashabub
Nabbas
because they were the companions
and the students of Ibn Abbas.
Radiallahu ta'alaan.
Humility, my brothers and my sisters, is something
that we all need.
Not only is it going to raise us
in this dunya and likewise the akhirah,
but you find
this is what's going to get you somewhere.
Us for speaking from your nose,
thinking you're better than others,
not attending classes because
some of the people that you taught are
there,
or people that were back home, maybe you
were more knowledgeable than them at the time,
and you don't want other people to see
that you don't have someone or you don't
know, or they're actually writing something that you
didn't know.
This is all from arrogance.
As our Sheikh Abdul Salam al Shoaib mentioned.
Are you with me, my brothers and my
sisters?
Also what our shaykh Abhishekha and he mentions
what some people
say
How can somebody who's 40 years old sit
with the one who is 20?
He says,
Just the other day I was telling one
of the brothers that I was teaching in
East London
He was saying he wants to memorize the
Quran but he doesn't have a teacher except
for 2 days a week. You know, I
said to him, my brothers and my sisters,
and this brother is 18 years old.
If the only access you have
to study in the Quran full time
just to sit in front of kids
that are much much younger than you and
you don't have any alternatives
from Tawah there is that you go there.
From
that you go there, you will feel humiliated.
Your teacher must speak to you like an
11 year old, the same way you're speaking
to the rest,
but you accept it because you need something
that he has.
And in Ulmah, brother Zama, sometimes you are
humiliated
by your teacher.
This is one of the lessons that we
take
from the story of Moos and Hagar.
What do you say to him?
Don't ask me anything again. He basically told
them to shout
because he was told to go to him.
Right? He was sent to
and he went quiet.
You will get humiliated sometimes.
You will be embarrassed.
That is exactly what's going to happen. So
the poet, he says,
Whoever is not patient
whoever is not patient for an hour being
humiliated,
he will carry on drinking ignorance for the
rest of his life.
Just have to take it. This is why
our sheikh, Roshaidan, who has the deadliest halakah
in the Haram. They make you read the
hadith backwards.
They make you read the hadith backwards. Imagine
hadith number 42. It tells you go backwards.
41, 40, 4, 39, 38.
And it tells you jump 10 and then
come back 5.
And when you're memorising Gabay, you know, poetry,
you have to go up. Keep going down
and up, down and up.
And until
he makes you humble and he mediates the
life out of you, he won't allow you
in the halka.
He will make you cry.
Wallahi, brother said to me
brother said to me when he humiliated me,
forget him, man.
Westerners
and also Arabs, the halakat are many. Go
somewhere else. Why are you sitting in front
of him for?
He doesn't memorize like that. Why is he
making the students memorize like that?
It was painful, wallahi, it was painful.
But I knew he has something the others
don't have.
A lot of people went to him, but
they ended up leaving. I ain't gonna be
treated like this.
But, Wallahi, those in the halka,
the hift is like water. The way we
read Fati harai, that's how they memorize in
Buluqun Haram.
Umla talhakam,
Bayhuni and the rest of the
manbumat.
You'll be humiliated and embarrassed.
That's only for a moment when you think
about it. And later on, you will realize
another sickness, my brothers and my sisters,
is al hasad,
having envy, jealousy for others.
And imam Imam Ibn Razeem says
that the hasad among students of knowledge,
the hasad,
the envy among students of knowledge is more
severe than the ones between the people of
Dunya.
One time, Imam Mohammed said
to his students,
He told them, no. May Allah have mercy
upon you.
That a man from the people of knowledge
That if Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives knowledge
to someone
but other people
like his classmates
are not given the same knowledge they are
prevented?
Hasadoo.
They begin to have hasad for him.
And they begin to accuse him
is that which has no basis whatsoever.
They begin to what?
Accuse him of really bad things.
What a bad evil characteristic
in the people of knowledge, Imam Ahmed says
this.
It is really, really severe.
Sometimes, my brothers and my sisters, when you
are in that type of environment, it can
be very hostile.
This, again, is a sickness and the disease
of the heart.
Also, let's now look at what happened to
Imam Bukhar,
he says,
because anyone who's fair and just
will see
that Muhammad ibn Yahya Dhuhli
will come to know in a moment who
he is,
was overwhelmed or was taken
by
envy. He was taken by envy.
And this is something my brothers and my
sisters that many people are not free from
except the one Allah has protected.
So who was this individual,
When Imam Al Bukari came to Nisabur,
you know what he said guys?
Go to this man.
Take knowledge from him.
Take the narration, take the Hadith from him.
So the students that he was teaching, they
went to
Imam al Bukharrah
Muhammad ibn Yahya.
Until my brothers and my sisters, there started
being gaps in the sittings of Muhammad ibn
Yahya.
Because people were leaving it out. And Muhammad
Al Usman Al Bukhari was more knowledgeable.
And when he began to see some of
his students leaving,
Hasadhu baadhu dalikafatakallamafi.
He started having envy and jealousy, and he
then he started speaking ill about him.
But you know, Imam Bukhari never took that
personally.
He did not take that personally.
He still mentioned Muhammad ibn Uyghiyah from his
teachers
in Asahi al Bukhari. You will find a
chain of narration
that counts him as one of his teachers.
Are you with me, my brothers and my
sisters? And that's a wonderful characteristic.
Even though he spoke about him, he distorted
his reputation and so on and so forth.
All of this goes back to my brothers
and my sisters,
cleansing
the vessel
of knowledge, and that is what the heart.
We spend hours and hours in the gym.
Right? 120,
1 30 kilos, 1 40.
8 hours
just to perfect the outer appearance.
We go to the gym.
Nothing wrong with it. There's jade, like, actually
looking after yourself.
And then the sister, she spends hours in
front of the mirror.
So she's gonna look great.
All of this is to perfect the outer
appearance.
What if we just spend a fraction of
that to perfect our hearts?
Are you with me my brothers and my
sisters? Because Allah
Allah does not look at how you or
how your outer appearances,
how big, how small, how thin, how fat
you are,
how yellow, how black, how white, how red.
Allah doesn't look at that but he looks
at 2 things.
Allah, azza wa jal,
he looks at your hearts and also at
your actions.
I'm going to be very very quickly inshallahta'ala.
I'm going to mention 2 more things
because I know I've gone over the time.
So now we've mentioned,
how many points have we mentioned or how
many characteristics?
2, 3, 3.
What was the first one?
Cleaning
the vessel of knowledge,
and that is what the heart.
And I mentioned under it three
characteristics
or 3 diseases and sicknesses. What is 3
diseases and sicknesses?
The first one is what?
Al Ma'alsi in general. 2nd one?
Alkibr.
Arrogance. 3rd one? Hasid. Hasid.
Envy.
Now we're going to take another one, my
brothers and masters. When a person, he seeks
knowledge,
he's not doing it for the sake of
Allah. Maybe he's trying to do it for
a portion of the dunya.
The people of the past, my brothers and
my sisters,
they didn't proceed
and they didn't reach a high level except
because they were sincere.
From the salaf of saliayn, my brothers and
my sisters, and when we say salif, we
mean the 3 golden generations.
The Sahaba, the Turbayin, the Turbayin.
He also says, Wa inna mayyanalalmaru
ala ilmaalaqadrikhlasi.
1, he only attains knowledge in accordance
to his sincere sincerity.
The more sincere he is,
the more knowledge he's going to attain. Again,
this is an action of the heart.
And the less sincere he is, the less
he's going to get.
This is why when a person, my brothers
and my sisters, seeks knowledge,
he has the intent of doing 4 things.
And the poet Muhammadu alayhi mentions this.
He
says make sure you come with 4 things
or you have the intent of 4
so you can be successful.
The first thing is, my brothers and my
sisters,
from sincerity, if you're going to be sincere,
that you're trying to remove yourself from
the darkness, the misguidance.
To remove the ignorance from yourself.
Then my brothers and my sisters, it is
to remove the ignorance
from others for the sake of Allah
When we learn the chapter of Menses, we
as guys,
why are we learning it?
Does anyone here have a monthly cycle?
But we learn it because of what?
For our sisters and so we can take
the information and relay it back right and
benefit others.
And the third thing, my brothers and my
sisters, the third intent when seeking knowledge is
to revive knowledge.
Knowledge has died out today, my brothers and
my sisters. It really has.
Going through books, everybody wants lectures.
When I come back in the summer of
Wallahi,
it really tires and exhausts me to go
around the country and give lectures. A lot
of the time it's
It is very, very less in benefit.
Why? Because all that does is
it increases somebody's iman, but it doesn't maintain
it. In order for you to maintain your
iman is to learn about Allah and to
go through books.
Books like of
Surufikh,
Aqeedah,
also Musalah Al Hadith.
Today has died out in the Ummah. It
really has.
This is why it's really amazing that our
brothers
are starting a program tomorrow, going through books.
And the 4th
is to act upon the knowledge that you
are learning.
Why am I studying? Am I studying because
tomorrow I want the Mimbar?
I want to be on top of that
Mimbar,
or am I studying because
I want everybody to see me as the
Sheikh?
What did the messenger say?
Whoever learns knowledge
that which is normally
learned in order to seek the face of
Allah, aasawajal,
but he only does that
in order to seek
a portion of the dunya. He wants something
of the dunya.
Allah
will enter him into the fire.
And another hadith, the messenger says
Whoever learns knowledge in order
just so he can go back and argue
with those who are foolish.
Sometimes this happens. Right?
We just quickly wanna go learn something just
so we can argue with that individual, and
we can get one over him. It's not
about brownie points, guys. It really isn't.
Oh,
he learns knowledge just so he can boast
about it.
Scholars can say, oh,
Sometimes an individual might ask a question
just so that scholar can think, wow.
He actually
is thinking about these kind of things. Or
he learns knowledge so he can turn the
faces to his direction.
Later on, he wants to be seen as
the hafid,
or he wants to be seen as the
This
individual won't be able to smell the fragrance
of Jannah.
Oh, I wanna be known as the
or the student of so and so.
Are you with me, my brothers and my
sisters?
This is really, really vital.
It is very, very vital.
That's why one should constantly be fighting with
his nafs.
Am I doing it for Allah's sake?
Always before the action and also while that
action is taking place
and after he's done with that particular action.
They are really doing it for Allah
One time Sheikh Salaman Rahili in the prophet
salaw alayhi was in his masjid.
You know what he said guys?
Imagine Allah, azzawajal,
he chose you from all of these millions
of Muslims
to seek knowledge and on top of that
for you to sit in the prophet salam
alayhi wa sams masjid,
but then you come in your Martiama and
you wasted all of that because you weren't
sincere.
Allah chose us guys to be able to
sit today in the Masjid
while many people are going to be partying
tonight on this Friday.
What if an individual, he feels like he's
not sincere?
Because I'm not gonna seek knowledge because I'm
not sincere. I don't feel like I'm sincere.
What does he do?
It's a question.
He carries on seeking knowledge. Some people they
say, I'm not
sincere, so I'm not gonna seek knowledge.
This individual
is combined between 2 things,
between ignorance
and also stupidity.
Why is that?
He needs it and he chooses to remain
what?
Ignorant.
This is why Sufyan ibn Uyayni says,
1st, we started seeking knowledge for other than
Allah
Then it refused except for it to be
for Allah, as the wicked's sake.
What does he mean by that? A lot
of people, my brothers and my sisters, when
they first start seeking knowledge,
they see a
Sheikh, all the attention that he's getting. He's
got a chair,
respect. When he walks in, he gets the
best in the room.
And
he finds it amazing
because everyone's given him attention and love.
So because of that, he starts seeking knowledge,
but then he attends a class where sincerity
is being spoken about. And then he realises
that I shouldn't be seeking knowledge in a
certain way or I shouldn't be learning the
Quran in a certain way.
And last but not least, my brothers and
my sisters,
there's this point number?
5. 5.
Or you could say 3, but 5. It's
5 things we mentioned altogether. But the first
was like a heading, and 3 types of
diseases came under it.
Also, my brothers and my sisters, what prevent
an individual
from being able to attain that knowledge
or to be able to seek or attain
the sweetness of the Quran is
having bad manners and etiquettes.
Yusuf Niyakobar Razi
said,
with good etiquettes,
that's how you're going to understand knowledge.
They also say about
and this is why
You married Nagbas.
Abu Salami always used to argue with Nagbas.
And because of him not knowing how to
speak to his teacher, he was deprived
of a lot of knowledge.
He didn't know how to speak to his
teacher. This is why there's adab, my brothers
and my sisters, with your teacher. There's adab
also when sitting in a sitting. There's also
etiquettes,
how you interact with your classmates.
There's books that have been written on etiquettes
and manners.
Doesn't bother the teacher. He's not gonna lose
anything, but the one who's going to be
deprived is what?
Student.
I've heard a student one time say to
his teacher, and he didn't mean it. He
didn't even realize that he was saying it.
He's calling his teacher. He goes, yo.
Says, yo. What was that thing that you
mentioned again?
We apologize after
because he was from the road. He didn't
realize.
Some of the scholars, they said my brothers
and my sisters,
What I fear for the person
who ends up having bad manners and etiquettes
in the sitting of his scholar
is that all his ilm will go to
waste from where he doesn't expect.
Look where they took this from
because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, what did he
say?
Do not raise your voice
over the voice of the Messenger sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
This is in the time of when he
was still living.
Are you with me my brothers and my
sisters? What could happen if they do that?
The actions will become null. It will become
void.
Today, the hadith I mentioned, right,
you might have an individual in the back.
When the hadith are being mentioned,
he's laughing and joking and he's texting.
He's raising his voice.
This is why my brothers and my sisters,
the people of the past when that hadith
were being mentioned,
their heads would be dropping
in humility to that which is being mentioned.
He would be concentrating.
He wouldn't dare to speak over the statements
of the Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam when
the hadith are being mentioned.
I remember one time, I was also saying,
and this class that happens every year, my
brothers and my sisters, over,
many thousands of people they attend in the
prophet's masjid. The sheikh comes all the way
from Riyadh. He goes
through
16 books in 8 days.
One time, the phone started ringing. The Sheikh
was like, switch off your phones, then he
rang again.
And then the 3rd time, he rang.
You know what the sheikh done? He got
up and he left.
He wanted to teach them a lesson,
and a teacher might do that,
might just get up and leave. Or if
that individual doesn't know how to speak to
him,
you got a prophet sometimes who speaks to
his teacher as if he has a right
over him to give him that knowledge.
There's a lot of etiquette, my brothers and
my sisters, that I mentioned, which we're not
gonna have time for, the way you address
your teacher,
the way you speak to him. Your madrasah
teacher who is teaching you Quran is gonna
be horrible to you sometimes,
but you have to be really, really patient,
and you don't treat him like your classmate.
One time I saw a brother to his
teacher. He came tucked on his head like
that.
And he goes, I was joking.
Some things are not appropriate.
You don't deal with your teacher the same
way you
and one time, one guy just came and
started touching his head.
That's why the Messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he
said, my brothers and my sisters,
from honoring Allah
is to
be noble towards
the man who's really old in age.
And also the one who is holding the
Quran and when he's memorized the Quran but
without going overboard,
not taking away from his right and also
having extremes,
being extreme in his regard.
Ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, my brothers and
my sisters, to benefit us from what we
heard.
I hope inshallah Wa Ta'ala, we all benefited
from them. We have down the back of
our minds,
and we try to seek knowledge. It's always
a pleasure coming here.
Lecture wasn't even meant to be happening, but
it was very, very last minute. So
all of you guys for attending
and listening attentively
and ask Allah
if he doesn't gather us in this dunya
again
to gather us all together.
3 books of the Atticus of Sikkha Knowledge.
One book that you can buy is
And you find that Sheikh Ali Al Hadabi
was one of the students of Sheikh Al
Bani, he summarized it.
He summarized it.
And he quoted
that's a lovely that every single
based in
Arabic.
It's in Arabic.
Also, there's another kitab
by Hamid Uthman
from
Kuwait,
and that name of the kitab has just
surpassed my mind
at this moment in time.
Also, there's another wonderful
explanation
by Shaykh Min Uzzaymeen on the Muqaddimah,
the introduction
of the Majmoor
in Nur
rahimullah. It's 1 Mujalat.
What he did was he was explaining the
introduction
of the Kitab of Imam Nur rahimullah ta'ala
called that Majmoor. Majmoor is like maybe
over 25
depending on the taba.
So he done an explanation, an introduction because
he speaks about the adab, the ethics, and
the manas.
Also you have, and how can I forget,
by Bakr Abu Zayed?
Also, Sheikh Bin Radheemin, he
has a kitab.
I think it's called
what's the kitab called? I think it's called
Can I go through it? Insha'Allah. We'll see
you next year.
I'm leaving on Sunday going back to because
of Hajj.
So,
and this year, this is the only time
I came to
Masjid Farhan as Sharif,
the honorable Masjid Farhan.
You guys will lie, guys. You're very, very
lucky. I don't wanna use I don't like
using the word lucky,
but you're very fortunate to have Sheikh Mohammed
Ali Sheikh Mohammed Ali here, walaal adhim.
Someone who graduated from Adini a very long
time ago.
He has a lot of ilm. I take
advice from him sometimes because he's older than
me in age.
Don't
unappreciate the people of knowledge that you guys
have around you.
He's a knowledgeable prophet that can bring a
lot to the table,
and he's the imam of the Masjid now.
I remember before they used to bring in
khateeps, different khateeps all the time, and I
used to be one of them. He used
to come.
Now you have a settled dahi over here,
Sheikh Muhammad Ali.
Benefit from him.
You have other brothers as well, Sadabul Abbas
who comes every week, I think,
every Saturday.
Another lovely brother
who graduated a long time ago, and you
have other brothers who who are going to
be graduating very soon, inshaAllah,
that you guys can benefit from.
You've got brother Hudayfa.
You also have brother Abdi Salam
and the other brother who's going to be,
inshallah, in a couple of years graduating. So
there's a lot of brothers you can seek
advice from, you can benefit from,
and give, you know,
something that you might not necessarily have
even if it is revising knowledge.