Abu Taymiyyah – QA How to Become a Memorising Machine in Knowledge Jeylaani
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Okay so as for techniques my brothers and
sisters
you need 2 things.
You need 2 things with regards to Talab
al Ael in general
and even so with regards to memorization.
The first one is
to exert your efforts
you really have to try hard and give
your time to
memorizing
and seek your knowledge.
Be eager and chase after that which is
beneficial for you. Put your effort into it
and also seek aid from Allah
These are the 2 things.
Imam Shabir
he mentioned some lines of poetry
Based on a person's effort that he exerts
this is how he attains loftiness.
And when one wants to chase after loftiness,
this person is going to what?
Spend his nice in trying to what?
Attain that.
And then he goes on to say
Whoever now tries to chase the lofty
whoever tries to chase loftiness
without exerting any efforts,
this person is going to be wasting his
life chasing the impossible.
You say that you want to attain greatness
and then you sleep at night.
A diver is ready to dive into the
sea and risk his life
just so he can find some what?
Pearls and gems.
He might drown, he might never come out,
he might get eaten by a shark,
but he's still ready to risk his life
in trying to attain the dunya.
Would we exert the same effort with regards
to ill?
I remember in Yemen my brothers and sisters
people had a pen and paper,
All these Masakin who came from around the
world studying in the Majh
while bombs were going off
The Houthis
they were trying to destroy Al Sunnah.
Bombs were going off and people are sitting
in the Masjid hadith an hour hadith an
hour hadith an hour hadith and are writing
it down.
Some of them were like we're not going
back until we seek knowledge.
No matter what happens
because me dying in the UK
after fitna has hit me
You being trialed in your religion
is far greater than
being killed. This is what Allah Azzawajal told
us in the Quran.
Shia are there and they try to destroy
the place while people are still sitting in
a masjid going through lessons.
The point is my brothers and sisters if
you want this Elmi, you want this Noor
you have to exert your efforts, you have
to have sleepless nights.
You want to attain knowledge with the relaxation
of the body. Sheikh Mookhb bin Hadil Wadia
used to say if I had the ability
to pour the elements your mouth
like milk and water I would have done
that.
But the end doesn't come except with the
scraping of the elbows and the scraping of
the knees.
Go back to a lecture I have got
a lecture online it is called he drank
his urine 5 times.
There were people of the past
because of Zarura
he was going out to seek knowledge and
his money ran out, he had no food,
he had no drink so he drank his
urine.
He drank his urine my brothers and sisters.
There was others they would sell their pans
and their pots.
You know a drug dealer when he's feeling
agitated
and his money's run out what's he going
to do?
He's going to sell everything in the home
right?
He's going to sell the air conditioner, he's
going to sell the fridge, he's going to
sell his cooker just so he can carry
on here with his with his drug habit.
They were similar to that in that sense,
he would sell the pots and the pans
just so he can have more money to
be able to seek more knowledge.
They had determination my brothers and sisters.
And the other thing that we need my
brothers and sisters is
we have to have a habit of
constantly begging Allah
no matter how smart you are, how intelligent,
how well educated,
how much you have
accomplished academically,
you are always in need of asking Allah
You
are not going to get this norm my
brothers and sisters
except by constantly breaking down in front of
Allah
in seclusion. Oh
Allah grant me knowledge.
Ibrahim
he
says some lines of poetry
Ask Allah for Tawfeeq
when you ask and call on to him.
And also be sincere upon asking Allah Azzawajal.
And when you call on to Allah Azzawajal
call on to Allah Azzawajal while admitting your
sins.
Just like Yunus Alaihi was
stuck in the stomach of the whale he
called out
He admitted his mistakes and said to Allah
Azzawullah I was oppressive.
I oppressed
myself help me
Meaning it happened straight away Allah responded back
to him.
And then he goes on to say
keep knocking on that door
when you are in
prostration to Allah
because making dua in your prostration
the prophet
what did he say?
Be somebody who excessively makes dua in a
sujood. Why?
The dua is expected to be responded back
straight away.
And the more you knock it is hoped
that the door is going to be opened
up for you.
We have to keep the habit my brothers
and ask in Allah
There used to be drug dealers my brother
says who went to JAMA TIL SAMI, they
graduated.
Drug dealers.
He repented, he had the habit of constantly
begging Allah Azzawajal Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gifted him with memories in
the
Quran.
Are you with me guys?
Fatalib 'il, a student of knowledge
shouldn't believe in something called impossible.
Impossible
shouldn't exist in his dictionary.
The giving of your lord is not restricted.
Nothing is difficult for Allah
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants something to take
place he says be and it becomes.
The most dumbest of people can become the
most greatest of them through Allah
So my brothers and sisters the sky is
the limit,
impossible should not exist in our dictionaries.
No matter what we want we should ask
Allah
So these two things
whatever you're memorizing
you are in need of it. You need
to exert your efforts, you're going to try
your utmost best while at the same time
you beg Allah Azza wa Jal.
Okay?
Is there time?
Shala zakumullah khair brothers and sisters for attending
and listening attentively.
We ask Allah Azzawajal to unite us another
time in this blessed masjid where we can
revise the deed of Allah azza wa jal.
SubhanAllah wa bihamdakashiduallayillahi
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