Abu Taymiyyah – Shaykh Faisal Jaasim How to Master Knowledge [Day 2 Session 4]

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The importance of preserving and mastering knowledge is emphasized, rather than just memorization. The student must be true to oneself, be with the real professional, and be willing to pursue knowledge. The importance of learning and practicing is emphasized, and the importance of understanding and memorizing is emphasized. The importance of action and learning is emphasized, and the importance of reading and practicing is emphasized.

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			Respected,
		
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			brothers and sisters.
		
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			The title of today's lecture will be mastering
		
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			and preserving knowledge,
		
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			the ways to seek it, and how to
		
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			perfect it.
		
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			And we're not going to talk about the
		
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			virtue of Islamic knowledge and the Islamic scholars
		
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			since the respected chiefs have explained it already.
		
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			And the fact is that mastering and preserving
		
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			knowledge is an extremely important topic.
		
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			Because people who tread the path of seeking
		
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			knowledge are many, but the people who truly
		
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			master knowledge and understand it correctly are few.
		
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			And to prove that point, just look at
		
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			the number of universities, Islamic universities and faculties,
		
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			and the many thousands of people attending classes
		
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			all around the world.
		
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			And then look at the people who are
		
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			able to teach and give fatwa and answer
		
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			questions
		
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			properly, and you will find that they are
		
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			very few indeed.
		
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			And when we say preserving and mastering knowledge,
		
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			we do not mean anything except correctly understanding
		
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			it. We do not mean to just memorize
		
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			and keep memorizing
		
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			things, but we mean to know,
		
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			the
		
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			principles based upon which the person can understand
		
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			knowledge and implement it correctly.
		
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			And that's why we must differentiate
		
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			between someone who memorizes a lot and remembers
		
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			a lot,
		
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			and he knows a lot, but he doesn't
		
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			understand. And the person who understands,
		
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			and he can use that knowledge to extract
		
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			rulings.
		
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			And that's why Allah ordered us to reflect
		
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			and think about the Quran
		
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			as he said in the ayah that we
		
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			have indeed revealed it,
		
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			an Arabic Quran
		
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			so that you may think about it.
		
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			And Allah said he gives wisdom to whom
		
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			he wills. And whoever is given wisdom, then
		
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			he has been given a lot of good.
		
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			And Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with
		
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			him, said that hikmah wisdom means the Quran
		
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			and its understanding.
		
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			And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
		
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			that there may be a person who carries
		
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			the fiqh,
		
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			the understanding to someone
		
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			who
		
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			is, who is someone who is more knowledgeable
		
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			than him, and the person who may carry
		
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			the fiqh may not actually understand it himself.
		
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			And one of the greatest benefits of understanding
		
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			and mastering knowledge is that the person is
		
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			able to refute the doubtful matters that come
		
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			his way. For example, today, we have a
		
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			lot of doubts regarding jihad
		
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			in the Gahapidah, the tukhid of the Muslims
		
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			in relation to names and attributes of Allah.
		
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			And Umar
		
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			used to write to Abu Musa Lash ari
		
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			radhiallahu anhu who was a judge in Iraq
		
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			for on behalf of Umar,
		
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			ordering him to concentrate on understanding
		
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			issues properly.
		
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			And
		
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			what the scholars have said in relation to
		
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			the importance of understanding knowledge and the difference
		
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			they made between
		
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			understanding and
		
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			remembering a lot and learning things by heart.
		
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			Their sayings are many, but we don't want
		
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			to increase the length of the lecture by
		
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			that.
		
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			So in a in a word, we can
		
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			say that knowledge is not a lot of
		
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			memorization.
		
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			And knowledge is not reading much or knowing
		
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			a lot of books.
		
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			And knowledge is not even a lot of
		
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			sheiks and lessons.
		
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			But rather knowledge
		
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			means mastering it and preserving it and understanding
		
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			it.
		
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			That's why the strange sayings and opinions generally
		
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			appear from people who may have read a
		
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			lot and memorized a lot, but they're not
		
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			people who may understand everything correctly.
		
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			And from the,
		
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			effects of not actually correctly understanding,
		
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			the Islamic
		
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			knowledge is what we see today
		
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			from people and groups
		
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			declaring many Muslims to be non Muslims
		
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			and going to extremes in that.
		
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			And, actually, even between the Salafis, what we
		
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			have some of them decree declaring others to
		
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			be innovators,
		
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			even that comes from the fact that the
		
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			people have not understood the knowledge.
		
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			And due to that, some people have initiated
		
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			from themselves,
		
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			principles
		
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			which we have never seen before and based
		
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			on those principles
		
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			have declared many good people to be innovators.
		
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			And the the examples
		
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			explaining the difference between
		
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			simply seeking knowledge and understanding knowledge are many
		
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			indeed.
		
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			Inshallah, we will give some examples that will
		
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			show it clearly.
		
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			And for example, we can say, when is
		
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			the time that the person who makes a
		
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			mistake who's upon the sunnah
		
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			and that mistakes takes him out of the
		
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			Sunnah? Meaning that, it's no longer a mistake.
		
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			It renders him to be from the innovators.
		
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			And this is a very important and big
		
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			issue. A lot of people talk about it,
		
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			but very few really understand it.
		
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			That's right. The real scholars of Islam, they
		
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			differentiate between a mistake
		
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			and an innovation and the person becoming an
		
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			innovator.
		
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			And because they say not every person who
		
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			falls into in a real even innovation
		
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			becomes an innovator.
		
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			For example, we we will give you some
		
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			examples. To consider something Allah made haram
		
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			impermissible
		
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			halal, permissible.
		
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			The people of the Sunnah
		
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			upon the consensus
		
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			that anyone who makes something Allah made Haram.
		
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			He he makes it halal and believes it
		
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			halal. He's not a Muslim anymore.
		
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			And some people mistakenly
		
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			believe that insisting upon an act of disobedience,
		
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			it takes the person out of Islam and
		
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			based on that, declare some Muslims to be
		
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			non Muslims.
		
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			And,
		
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			they know that to make something halal is
		
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			happens in the heart and the mind of
		
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			the person, and it's based
		
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			upon the creed and the belief of the
		
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			person. But they believe also that, for example,
		
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			granting commercial licenses
		
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			to Haram Establishments
		
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			like banks operating upon Riba or with Riba,
		
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			is considered to be
		
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			making it permissible.
		
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			And therefore, they make whole countries to be
		
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			disbelievers.
		
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			And this is from ignorance because there's a
		
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			huge difference
		
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			between someone
		
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			doing something
		
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			and him believing that it's permissible.
		
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			And we inshallah give an example from Fiqh,
		
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			which is clear to us and close to
		
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			us.
		
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			If someone rents a property, is he allowed
		
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			to sublet it to someone else?
		
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			Sure. What do you think?
		
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			It's permissible for him to sublet
		
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			it to someone like him because he, by
		
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			that contract,
		
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			has, benefited and he has received the permission
		
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			to use that property.
		
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			There is a difference between actually owning the
		
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			property
		
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			and having the ability to use the property.
		
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			Someone gave you his flat to borrow, meaning
		
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			for a time.
		
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			Are you allowed to let it out to
		
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			someone?
		
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			What's the difference between these two issues
		
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			that we've just mentioned?
		
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			There's a difference between being able to benefit
		
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			from the flat
		
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			by paying for it and by by just
		
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			being able someone giving it to you to
		
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			use it for limit period.
		
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			Benefit.
		
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			Owning the benefit. Owning. There's difference between owning
		
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			the benefit. I'm retired. And you can you
		
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			can benefit from it.
		
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			Shall I speak Arabic?
		
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			What are the things that the person who
		
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			is seeking knowledge can do in order to
		
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			understand and master knowledge?
		
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			And of course, this doesn't mean that the
		
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			person will not make any mistakes.
		
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			This is something inherent in the human beings.
		
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			And there's a difference between someone because he
		
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			didn't do enough to master knowledge
		
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			and someone who makes a mistake for another
		
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			reason.
		
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			And the means through which the person can
		
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			master and understand knowledge can be divided into
		
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			2 groups.
		
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			The first one is the characteristics
		
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			which must be present in the student of
		
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			knowledge.
		
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			And the second is the methodology that he
		
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			must follow in order to master and understand
		
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			knowledge.
		
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			Due to the fact that we don't have
		
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			much time, we will not mention the,
		
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			proofs that we use, but we will just
		
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			mention
		
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			the points themselves.
		
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			The characteristics of the student of knowledge are
		
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			many.
		
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			The most important are the following.
		
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			The very first and the most important is
		
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			Ikhlas to be sincere
		
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			in you seeking the knowledge.
		
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			Because a person who doesn't seek knowledge sincerely
		
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			for the sake of Allah, maybe for the
		
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			dunya for this worldly for the worldly gain
		
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			will not be able to master knowledge ever.
		
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			Abdul Abdul Mubarak says
		
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			the beginning of knowledge is the intention.
		
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			And, Shafi'i Rahmahullah said, I wish that people
		
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			memorized and benefited from the knowledge that I
		
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			have and I've written, and nothing of it
		
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			was attributed to me as a person in
		
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			my name.
		
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			Because he doesn't want to make his name
		
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			big and people saying we learned from this
		
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			sheikh and that sheikh by name. All he
		
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			wants is for the people to benefit and
		
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			learn.
		
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			The second is to be truthful in
		
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			seeking knowledge.
		
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			And there's a difference between sincerity
		
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			and being truthful.
		
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			And truthfulness
		
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			means that he only wants to seek knowledge
		
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			and he doesn't
		
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			make other things come into it.
		
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			Because he doesn't seek knowledge only when he
		
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			has time, but all of his time is
		
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			for the seeking of knowledge.
		
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			And he's not distracted by anything, by trading,
		
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			by business,
		
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			by politics, by whatever someone said and someone
		
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			said about someone.
		
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			He makes his time and effort solely for
		
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			the purpose of seeking knowledge.
		
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			And the third is, to have high ambitions
		
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			and to persevere and have sabr in the
		
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			path of seeking knowledge.
		
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			And some who mentioned inshallah
		
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			some of the statements of the scholars
		
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			and, what did we find in the Quran
		
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			and Sunnah is a lot.
		
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			And the
		
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			said that knowledge is not possible to seek
		
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			while having rest.
		
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			And it was said to Imam Sha'abi. How
		
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			did you gain all this knowledge that you
		
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			have?
		
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			He mentioned 4 things.
		
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			Through different countries by seeking for seeking knowledge.
		
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			And to be patient like the donkey.
		
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			And to seek it early like the crow
		
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			in the beginning of the day.
		
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			And the imam Malik said,
		
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			this knowledge is not sought
		
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			until the student of knowledge
		
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			tastes the taste of poverty.
		
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			And
		
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			the Imam Abu Yusuf, the student of Imam
		
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			Abu Hanifa
		
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			And knowledge Islamic knowledge is something
		
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			that will not give you something until you
		
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			give all of yourself
		
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			to it. Meaning that if you dedicate all
		
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			of yourself to the knowledge, it will only
		
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			give you some of it.
		
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			The 4th feature that the student of knowledge
		
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			must have is acting upon his knowledge.
		
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			And, acting upon it means to use it
		
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			in your worship and also to teach it
		
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			to others and spread it among the people.
		
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			Asif Al Khamis, sir.
		
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			The the 5th feature.
		
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			And not to rush to,
		
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			seek the fruit of the steward of seeking
		
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			knowledge
		
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			and not to rush to become a sheikh
		
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			or to be called a sheikh and to
		
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			be in charge of something.
		
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			When some of the companions came to the
		
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			prophet, alaihis salam, and complained to him about
		
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			the the rough treatment that they were receiving
		
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			from the police in Mecca,
		
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			He said you are people who are rushing
		
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			fruits of your suburb.
		
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			And that shows that if you want to,
		
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			achieve high status and great knowledge
		
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			and other things, you cannot rush those things.
		
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			And many of people now they want to
		
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			become Sheikh very quickly and this is a
		
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			big mistake.
		
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			And Imam Azuhir Rahimullah says while he was
		
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			advising one of his students,
		
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			And he said, do not try
		
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			to learn knowledge quickly because the knowledge consists
		
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			of many parts like valleys.
		
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			You have to go slowly through them.
		
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			But take it through the days and nights,
		
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			meaning with,
		
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			patience and perseverance.
		
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			And don't take all of the knowledge straight
		
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			away in one go.
		
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			Because who takes knowledge
		
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			quickly in one go, he will lose it
		
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			quickly in one go.
		
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			That's why we now see,
		
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			young people, young brothers who give fatwa about
		
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			issues that many big scholars
		
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			are scared to give fatwa about, and they
		
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			rush to make themselves big,
		
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			shares.
		
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			The 6th characteristic
		
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			is to,
		
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			follow and be with the real scholars of
		
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			Islam because you cannot understand knowledge and master
		
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			it except when you take it from the
		
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			ulama, not from books.
		
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			And that is why what scholars said
		
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			prohibiting people to just learn from books only
		
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			are many indeed.
		
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			Therefore, it's very important
		
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			to have shares and ulama
		
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			from whom the person takes the knowledge and
		
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			understanding.
		
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			And now we come to the second part,
		
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			which is the correct methodology
		
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			in preserving and mastering and understanding
		
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			knowledge.
		
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			1st of all is to learn knowledge gradually
		
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			in steps
		
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			one after another
		
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			to starting from small things to big things
		
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			in order to understand
		
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			it.
		
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			And the Allah said but rather be Rabbaniil
		
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			and Ibn Abbas radiAllahu anhu maha said,
		
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			Rabbani is the scholar
		
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			who teaches the easy and small issues to
		
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			the people before the big and important ones.
		
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			Therefore, the student of knowledge must start with
		
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			the most important things like Tawhid,
		
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			and the 'Abidah, the creed, and that he
		
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			must go from there.
		
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			And he must start in every
		
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			area of Islamic knowledge from the texts that
		
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			are easy. Then he should go step by
		
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			step and going from level to level.
		
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			And the stages are generally divided into 4.
		
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			The first one is foundation.
		
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			Behave
		
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			Which means that the person must be given
		
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			by the scholar who is teaching him, and
		
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			he must take the easiest of the text
		
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			for every area of knowledge. And he must
		
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			be able to know it, to memorize it,
		
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			understand it with the help of his
		
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			sheikh.
		
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			Therefore, the correct text must be chosen.
		
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			And, must be read to a sheikh who
		
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			understands and can correct him correctly.
		
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			This is the foundation stage.
		
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			The the second stage is the to know
		
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			the proofs for the issues that he has
		
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			learned.
		
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			So to that so that he knows where
		
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			those issues come from.
		
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			For example, the Hadith that proves this point
		
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			and how it proves it.
		
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			And other branches and issues that may actually
		
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			branch out from this issue.
		
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			And this requires,
		
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			text that is harder little bit than the
		
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			first level,
		
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			and the sheikh who knows it very well
		
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			and repetition and memorization.
		
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			We have, examples inshallah. This will be printed
		
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			hopefully, and we can benefit from it.
		
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			And the third is comparative knowledge where we
		
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			look at a wider picture.
		
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			And when we look, for example, at the
		
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			issues of knowledge,
		
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			we we will notice that they go back
		
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			to a common, for example,
		
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			foundation.
		
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			And at this point and at this level,
		
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			we will also know the the proofs and
		
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			the issues of the people who may be
		
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			different with us.
		
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			No. Because the first two stages, we will
		
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			only know one opinion
		
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			and with with some proofs. At the 3rd
		
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			stage, we will already have some idea
		
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			of the opinions of other people.
		
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			The 4th, which is the last in this
		
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			point at this point is to be able
		
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			to analyze the knowledge and the issues
		
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			and to be able to extract the rulings.
		
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			And at this stage, the person must be
		
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			able
		
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			and must concern himself
		
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			with
		
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			the big reference books because they are the
		
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			ones that he will be able and he
		
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			must be using.
		
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			Another
		
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			For example, in terms of Haqida and Tawhid,
		
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			we can, give some examples of books that
		
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			we can use. The first and write it
		
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			down, please, brothers.
		
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			The first is, the 3,
		
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			salafah usul, the 3,
		
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			Principles. Principles, and the 4,
		
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			Kaway principles.
		
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			The second stage, we can take the
		
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			explanation of.
		
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			And the 3rd stage, we can take Fathil
		
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			Majeed explanation.
		
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			We can take a reputation of Bakri both
		
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			by shayatul Islam ibn Taymiyrahima.
		
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			For example, we will give a book for
		
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			each stage.
		
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			The first one, Adidat Ahlul Hadith by imam,
		
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			Al Ismailik.
		
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			The second, we can take the explanation of
		
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			The third stage, the explanation of
		
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			The 4th stage, you can take the
		
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			the the
		
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			the confusion of the jahmia
		
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			by Ibtaimir.
		
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			And
		
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			And this is just these are quick examples.
		
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			Otherwise, we can give more.
		
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			Khamz? Khamz Marativ.
		
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			At every stage and in every issue, the
		
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			person requires to follow the 5 following steps.
		
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			The first is to can can can correctly
		
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			understand the issue and picture it in one's
		
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			head.
		
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			For example, what we mentioned in relation to
		
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			renting
		
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			to own the benefit of that,
		
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			rented accommodation.
		
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			Borrowing
		
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			or,
		
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			giving someone to borrow, that means that the
		
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			person is able to benefit for a limited
		
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			period.
		
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			Because we must differentiate between owning the benefit
		
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			or the usage rather
		
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			and actually using it for a limited period.
		
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			Another example is the,
		
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			gold, that is used by the person, by
		
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			ladies. Is it is is there any zakah
		
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			on it or not?
		
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			What is the meaning of used?
		
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			Does it mean that the lady is actually
		
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			wearing it, or is it just there to
		
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			be used?
		
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			And this is the the job of the
		
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			sheikh to make the student understand the issue.
		
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			For example, the scholars say that the non
		
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			Muslims are 1 of 4 categories.
		
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			Who lives in the protection of the Islamic
		
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			State.
		
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			What's the meaning of harbi? Does it mean
		
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			the person who's constantly
		
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			is in a state of war with us?
		
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			For example, another example, people of the sunnah
		
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			say that iman
		
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			consists of statements, sayings, and actions.
		
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			Because what is the meaning of statements and
		
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			actions? There are 5 things that come under
		
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			this.
		
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			For example, in terms of Aida, the people
		
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			of the Sunnah say that the names and
		
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			attributes of Allah must be left upon their
		
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			apparent meanings. What does it mean? We must
		
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			understand.
		
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			The second step
		
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			The first step is to understand it correctly.
		
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			The second is to know the hokum. Ruling.
		
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			I need the the the 5 things that
		
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			the sheikh has mentioned permissible, impermissible,
		
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			obligatory, not allowed, permissible.
		
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			The third step and level is to know
		
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			the Dalil, the proof of it.
		
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			None. If someone says what's the the proof
		
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			that there is Zakat that must be payable
		
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			or must be paid upon the gold that
		
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			is used by women, you must know the
		
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			proof from the Quran or the Sunnah
		
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			or Ijma consensus
		
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			or for example saying of a companion or
		
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			the like.
		
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			And what differentiates between them. Because some issues
		
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			may look different, but they're actually similar. Another
		
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			black Muslim.
		
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			In Hajj, you give example.
		
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			Conditions that, can be made in Hajj are
		
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			3 types.
		
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			The,
		
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			conditions that make the Hajj correct
		
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			And the conditions that,
		
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			make the Hajj,
		
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			any,
		
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			you can say sufficient,
		
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			acceptable.
		
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			And those that, must be fulfilled. Those those
		
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			that,
		
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			for I need the person must fulfill.
		
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			What is the difference between these three types
		
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			of conditions in Hajj?
		
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			The 4 categories of non Muslims that were
		
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			mentioned,
		
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			what are the differences between them?
		
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			A person, for example, who has lice head
		
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			lice in his hair and Hajj, if he
		
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			shaves his head, then he must give Fidya,
		
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			his expiration.
		
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			If he has
		
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			he is very cold,
		
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			he can wear trousers,
		
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			and he doesn't have to pay Fidya expiation.
		
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			Both are not permissible. So why did we
		
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			say in the first one, he must pay
		
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			expiration and the second, we didn't?
		
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			Al Mufti.
		
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			Mufti and judge.
		
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			He's,
		
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			both of them give the information in relation
		
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			to the Huqum, the the ruling in the
		
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			Sharia.
		
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			But there is a difference between them in
		
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			is it obligatory or not to take?
		
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			If we exchange gold for gold, then we're
		
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			not allowed except to give similar weight
		
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			and of similar value.
		
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			Can be rented to someone or given,
		
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			for a limited period. With that. For for
		
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			for in exchange for gold for a limited
		
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			period.
		
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			The first one is that exchange,
		
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			meaning buying or selling gold for gold is
		
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			not permissible
		
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			except to those conditions.
		
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			The second,
		
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			to let it out or rent it for
		
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			a period is permissible.
		
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			What's the
		
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			difference what's the difference between those two even
		
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			though
		
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			both in both cases, gold changes hands?
		
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			A person who divorced his wife
		
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			after he has consummated the marriage
		
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			3 times at once. The scholars say the
		
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			3, all of them happen at once.
		
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			And the person who divorces his wife
		
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			three times, but he has not consummated yet
		
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			his marriage by the the consensus of the
		
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			scholars only once happened.
		
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			What's the difference
		
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			between those 2? Another black middle.
		
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			Someone prayed with a garment made of silk.
		
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			A lot of scholars say that his prayer
		
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			is invalid.
		
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			And if he prays with the imam made
		
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			of silk,
		
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			his, prayer is valid
		
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			by the consensus of the scholars.
		
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			What is the difference between those 2?
		
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			And therefore, this what we're trying to show
		
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			is that there are some issues that may
		
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			look the same, but they have differences
		
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			and some that may look different, but they're
		
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			the same.
		
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			The 5th, level
		
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			is to know
		
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			the levels of different issues. For example, we
		
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			may have issues that are obligatory,
		
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			but some are more obligatory than others.
		
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			Yeah. For example?
		
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			Someone has a wife and a child.
		
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			And both are about to die, the wife
		
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			and the
		
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			child.
		
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			And he only has food for 1.
		
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			Who should he give?
		
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			Who should he give?
		
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			Why should he prefer to give it to
		
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			the wife rather than the child?
		
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			Because we have a principle in Sharia
		
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			upon which we base it.
		
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			What's more important? To be good and dutiful
		
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			to your parents or jihad?
		
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			What's your opinion?
		
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			No. And when we have no choice, sometimes
		
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			we have to know what's more important, what's
		
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			more obligatory
		
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			when we have no choice, of course.
		
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			No. In every issue of knowledge, we have
		
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			5 stages
		
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			which you must go through.
		
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			To correctly understand and imagine the issue.
		
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			To know the proof.
		
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			To know the ruling.
		
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			The
		
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			the
		
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			the foundation upon which we can base it
		
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			and know the difference from.
		
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			And the correct,
		
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			level that we may know in terms
		
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			of the those rulings obligation and other.
		
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			Some issues that we must pay attention to
		
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			very important. We will quickly, because we have
		
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			a little time, quickly give them time.
		
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			The first one.
		
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			Because at every
		
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			For example, someone at the first stage, he's
		
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			studying the three principles.
		
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			For example, he reads explanation of this ilim.
		
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			I mean, she had mentioned them. That ilim
		
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			that ilim and everyone, that's not correct.
		
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			And this is a problem, actually. We have
		
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			that you must try to concentrate
		
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			what the sheikh is explaining
		
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			and,
		
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			try to understand and memorize that.
		
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			You must not wait,
		
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			spend more time than necessary
		
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			reading more than necessary.
		
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			Try to concentrate on what the sheikh has
		
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			given you.
		
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			The second issue is to try and be
		
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			keen to memorize.
		
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			To memorize the issues. What akham? And the
		
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			rulings. What dalaal.
		
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			And the proofs.
		
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			It can be achieved in 2 ways.
		
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			The the first one is how we normally
		
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			memorize to keep repeating until we memorize.
		
00:46:58 --> 00:47:00
			For example, Kitabat Tawhid, he keeps repeating the
		
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			the chapter until he knows it by heart.
		
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			The second way.
		
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			And the the second is to keep referring
		
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			and repeating those issues
		
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			until the person thinks that almost as if
		
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			he memorizes it even though he doesn't exactly
		
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			memorize it.
		
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			The third note that we must have a
		
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			look at.
		
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			Don't go to the next stage until you
		
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			actually has have mastered the the one you're
		
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			at.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			For example, you are trying to understand and
		
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			memorize the,
		
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			then don't go out to kitabut tawhid or
		
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			explanation of kitabut tawhid
		
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			until you finish that stage.
		
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			What does it mean to actually master and
		
00:48:06 --> 00:48:06
			understand
		
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			For example, that means that someone gives you
		
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			and
		
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			he says explain it.
		
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			No. And if he's able to actually take
		
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			it and explain it, that means he has
		
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			mastered
		
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			Now if he says no, I will go
		
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			back and check and revise
		
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			and things like this, then it means that
		
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			he hasn't actually mastered it. Yeah.
		
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			For example.
		
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			The nice book, Dalilu Talib.
		
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			If he's given that book and said, try
		
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			to explain it, he says, no. I have
		
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			to have a look and go and check.
		
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			Then that means he hasn't mastered it.
		
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			Because mastering knowledge and understanding it means that
		
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			he understands the issues and the rulings and
		
00:49:17 --> 00:49:17
			the proofs,
		
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			and he's able to explain it,
		
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			And therefore, it means that you should not
		
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			go from a book to another
		
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			and from a level to another until you
		
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			actually have completely mastered that, particular level of
		
00:49:34 --> 00:49:35
			book.
		
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			And a lot of students, they want to
		
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			do it quickly and quickly past the stage,
		
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			and that makes them actually,
		
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			leave behind a lot of good knowledge.
		
00:49:53 --> 00:49:54
			The 4th point of note
		
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			that the student of knowledge, once he completes
		
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			the these levels of seeking knowledge.
		
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			From every field of Islamic science, he must
		
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			choose one book that he constantly refers to,
		
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			and he uses a reference point that he
		
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			has mastered, and he knows exactly what it
		
00:50:23 --> 00:50:23
			means.
		
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			That book means that that's the book that
		
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			he constantly refers to, reads, and revises,
		
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			and he makes notes of. And that's the
		
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			the foundation, the the the book that he
		
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			uses in that particular subject.
		
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			An example of that.
		
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			For example,
		
00:51:01 --> 00:51:02
			the explanation of
		
00:51:03 --> 00:51:06
			he constantly refers to it, and he constantly
		
00:51:06 --> 00:51:09
			checks it and memorizes it and, tries to
		
00:51:09 --> 00:51:12
			understand to the extent that he almost knows
		
00:51:12 --> 00:51:14
			it by heart, and he's able to understand
		
00:51:14 --> 00:51:15
			it and teach it.
		
00:51:22 --> 00:51:22
			For example, in,
		
00:51:23 --> 00:51:25
			Aqidah, he goes and takes
		
00:51:26 --> 00:51:27
			Imam Ibnu Abil 'Israel
		
00:51:28 --> 00:51:29
			of Taha'iyah,
		
00:51:30 --> 00:51:32
			and he's able and he's pays so much
		
00:51:32 --> 00:51:35
			attention to it that he's able to correctly
		
00:51:35 --> 00:51:37
			understand it and completely master it.
		
00:51:56 --> 00:51:58
			And therefore, what we're trying to prove and
		
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			to show that the the student of knowledge
		
00:52:01 --> 00:52:03
			must have at least 1 or 2 books,
		
00:52:04 --> 00:52:07
			where he refers to them constantly in every
		
00:52:07 --> 00:52:09
			science, in every field of Islamic knowledge
		
00:52:09 --> 00:52:11
			that he refers back to and he constantly
		
00:52:11 --> 00:52:12
			revises.
		
00:52:12 --> 00:52:14
			At Thembi al Khamis
		
00:52:14 --> 00:52:15
			The 5th point
		
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			To be very keen to revise
		
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			and with his fellow students and fellow,
		
00:52:32 --> 00:52:35
			students of knowledge and to memorize the proofs
		
00:52:35 --> 00:52:37
			and issues and, rulings.
		
00:52:43 --> 00:52:44
			The
		
00:52:44 --> 00:52:46
			the the issue that you discussed with your
		
00:52:46 --> 00:52:48
			fellow student or friend,
		
00:52:48 --> 00:52:50
			generally, you will never forget it.
		
00:52:52 --> 00:52:53
			The 6th point.
		
00:53:03 --> 00:53:05
			And the student of knowledge must have,
		
00:53:06 --> 00:53:06
			methodical
		
00:53:06 --> 00:53:09
			way of actually reading a book. Not just
		
00:53:09 --> 00:53:12
			read, but get benefits on how to record
		
00:53:12 --> 00:53:13
			those and things like this.
		
00:53:18 --> 00:53:21
			And that's, what Sheikh Ibrahim Rahil inshallah will
		
00:53:21 --> 00:53:22
			discuss or has discussed
		
00:53:22 --> 00:53:25
			in in terms of methodology of reading books
		
00:53:25 --> 00:53:26
			and benefiting from them.
		
00:53:28 --> 00:53:29
			The 7th point.
		
00:53:40 --> 00:53:42
			That we must be able to actually return
		
00:53:43 --> 00:53:43
			the branches
		
00:53:44 --> 00:53:44
			of the knowledge
		
00:53:45 --> 00:53:47
			to the those foundation principles
		
00:53:48 --> 00:53:50
			from which they stem. If you're able to
		
00:53:50 --> 00:53:52
			actually understand the principle,
		
00:53:52 --> 00:53:54
			then you're able to include a lot of
		
00:53:54 --> 00:53:55
			different issues under it.
		
00:53:56 --> 00:53:57
			Examples.
		
00:54:04 --> 00:54:04
			For example,
		
00:54:05 --> 00:54:07
			a sock that has some holes. Is it
		
00:54:07 --> 00:54:09
			permissible to wipe over it or not in
		
00:54:12 --> 00:54:15
			The scholars have divided. Some said no. Some
		
00:54:15 --> 00:54:16
			said yes.
		
00:54:19 --> 00:54:21
			So, but what is the reason that they
		
00:54:21 --> 00:54:23
			divided and differed?
		
00:54:25 --> 00:54:27
			Because this goes back to a principle.
		
00:54:32 --> 00:54:35
			Because they differed. What is the reason why
		
00:54:35 --> 00:54:37
			we are allowed to wipe over the sock?
		
00:54:43 --> 00:54:45
			The reason we're allowed to do it is
		
00:54:45 --> 00:54:47
			because some said because the the foot is
		
00:54:47 --> 00:54:48
			covered.
		
00:54:54 --> 00:54:56
			Therefore, those who said that the the reason
		
00:54:56 --> 00:54:58
			for allowing us to wipe
		
00:54:58 --> 00:55:00
			is because it's covered.
		
00:55:00 --> 00:55:03
			Anything that uncovers some part of the foot
		
00:55:03 --> 00:55:05
			renders it impermissible to wipe.
		
00:55:09 --> 00:55:12
			But whereas the other say, the reason we're
		
00:55:12 --> 00:55:13
			allowed to wipe over the sock is because
		
00:55:13 --> 00:55:16
			it's difficult to constantly take it off and
		
00:55:16 --> 00:55:17
			put it back on.
		
00:55:25 --> 00:55:27
			Because the people who say this, they say
		
00:55:27 --> 00:55:29
			there's no difference between
		
00:55:29 --> 00:55:31
			a a sock that has, holes and a
		
00:55:31 --> 00:55:34
			sock that doesn't because both are equal in
		
00:55:34 --> 00:55:36
			the fact that it's not easy to take
		
00:55:36 --> 00:55:38
			it off and put it back on again.
		
00:55:44 --> 00:55:46
			Therefore, if you go back to the reason
		
00:55:46 --> 00:55:47
			why the scholars have differed,
		
00:55:47 --> 00:55:50
			you'll be able to understand this, difference.
		
00:55:51 --> 00:55:52
			Another example.
		
00:56:00 --> 00:56:02
			For example, a person who has seen with
		
00:56:02 --> 00:56:04
			his own eyes the new moon of Ramadan
		
00:56:04 --> 00:56:07
			by himself, but the people didn't fast. Is
		
00:56:07 --> 00:56:09
			it obligatory for him to fast by on
		
00:56:09 --> 00:56:10
			his own or not?
		
00:56:16 --> 00:56:18
			So the ulama have differed. Some said he
		
00:56:18 --> 00:56:20
			must fast and others said no, he can't
		
00:56:20 --> 00:56:22
			fast. He must fast to the people.
		
00:56:25 --> 00:56:27
			And this is based upon a principle
		
00:56:28 --> 00:56:28
			issue.
		
00:56:39 --> 00:56:41
			No. Because they differ.
		
00:56:41 --> 00:56:44
			Does the word Hilal, the new moon, does
		
00:56:44 --> 00:56:45
			it mean that what we see in the
		
00:56:45 --> 00:56:46
			sky
		
00:56:46 --> 00:56:49
			or something that has become well known among
		
00:56:49 --> 00:56:49
			the people?
		
00:56:55 --> 00:56:57
			So some said that it's what we see
		
00:56:57 --> 00:56:59
			in the sky. If he's seen, he must
		
00:56:59 --> 00:56:59
			fast.
		
00:57:12 --> 00:57:14
			Therefore and say another group of scholars said
		
00:57:15 --> 00:57:17
			that it means that something that has become
		
00:57:17 --> 00:57:19
			well known and famous and spread among the
		
00:57:19 --> 00:57:19
			people.
		
00:57:20 --> 00:57:22
			Therefore, if it's not if it's, not
		
00:57:23 --> 00:57:25
			like that, then no fasting.
		
00:57:28 --> 00:57:29
			Shala number 8.
		
00:57:37 --> 00:57:40
			The person must be keen to avoid being
		
00:57:40 --> 00:57:41
			strange and being
		
00:57:42 --> 00:57:45
			going against the majority of the scholars when
		
00:57:45 --> 00:57:46
			he's seeking knowledge.
		
00:57:54 --> 00:57:57
			And, by the majority, we mean the modern
		
00:57:57 --> 00:58:00
			scholars. If the majority are upon 1 fatwa,
		
00:58:00 --> 00:58:03
			then don't come and make yourself strange by
		
00:58:03 --> 00:58:04
			following the minority.
		
00:58:08 --> 00:58:09
			And generally,
		
00:58:10 --> 00:58:12
			strange sayings do not come except from strange
		
00:58:12 --> 00:58:13
			people.
		
00:58:16 --> 00:58:17
			The 9th point.
		
00:58:23 --> 00:58:25
			To be careful not to actually sacrifice
		
00:58:26 --> 00:58:27
			understanding and mastering knowledge,
		
00:58:28 --> 00:58:30
			by reading more than necessary.
		
00:58:35 --> 00:58:37
			The nature of the student of knowledge by
		
00:58:37 --> 00:58:38
			definition,
		
00:58:38 --> 00:58:39
			he loves
		
00:58:41 --> 00:58:41
			to
		
00:58:46 --> 00:58:49
			read. And what must be, to given preference
		
00:58:49 --> 00:58:49
			to,
		
00:58:50 --> 00:58:51
			to read, for example, for an hour a
		
00:58:51 --> 00:58:52
			new book
		
00:58:53 --> 00:58:56
			or to, revise something he has already learned
		
00:58:56 --> 00:58:57
			during this hour.
		
00:59:02 --> 00:59:05
			Because, generally, the desire is to read new
		
00:59:05 --> 00:59:06
			some new material.
		
00:59:07 --> 00:59:09
			But, actually, the correct thing to do is
		
00:59:09 --> 00:59:10
			to revise the old material
		
00:59:11 --> 00:59:13
			that has been studied so that the person
		
00:59:13 --> 00:59:13
			can
		
00:59:14 --> 00:59:15
			understand it properly.
		
00:59:17 --> 00:59:18
			10th note.
		
00:59:25 --> 00:59:28
			There are some books by the scholars
		
00:59:28 --> 00:59:30
			who have analyzed a lot of the material
		
00:59:31 --> 00:59:33
			that actually will, make you not need many
		
00:59:33 --> 00:59:34
			books.
		
00:59:37 --> 00:59:40
			And will make the road to real knowledge
		
00:59:40 --> 00:59:42
			much shorter than, usual.
		
00:59:48 --> 00:59:50
			For example, the books of Imam Ibn Taymiyyah
		
00:59:50 --> 00:59:51
			Rahimahullah
		
00:59:52 --> 00:59:54
			will make the path to understanding and knowledge
		
00:59:54 --> 00:59:55
			much shorter and easier.
		
01:00:04 --> 01:00:05
			By Imam Ibn Hajar,
		
01:00:05 --> 01:00:07
			and he's a great book.
		
01:00:15 --> 01:00:17
			If a person dedicates 10 years to Fath
		
01:00:17 --> 01:00:20
			Albari, it's it's not much actually. It's little.
		
01:00:35 --> 01:00:36
			The hashi, which is the you can see
		
01:00:36 --> 01:00:39
			the explanation of Raul al Murbeh, book in
		
01:00:40 --> 01:00:44
			by, ibn Qasim will make the job easier
		
01:00:44 --> 01:00:45
			for you to understand Firk in a very
		
01:00:45 --> 01:00:46
			short way.
		
01:00:55 --> 01:00:57
			And what we're trying to say is that
		
01:00:57 --> 01:00:59
			there are certain books and scholars
		
01:00:59 --> 01:01:01
			that will make the job much easier than
		
01:01:01 --> 01:01:02
			others.
		
01:01:04 --> 01:01:05
			And the notes number 11.
		
01:01:13 --> 01:01:15
			It's extremely important for the student of knowledge
		
01:01:16 --> 01:01:18
			to actually learn and know the
		
01:01:19 --> 01:01:21
			fatawah of the modern scholars and to read
		
01:01:21 --> 01:01:23
			in other different aspects of knowledge.
		
01:01:30 --> 01:01:32
			Because the fatawa means
		
01:01:33 --> 01:01:36
			actually applying the knowledge that we're trying to
		
01:01:36 --> 01:01:37
			learn to our modern life.
		
01:01:41 --> 01:01:41
			Note
		
01:01:42 --> 01:01:43
			number 12.
		
01:01:52 --> 01:01:55
			We must actually benefit from the experience of
		
01:01:55 --> 01:01:55
			the real.
		
01:01:56 --> 01:01:58
			Do not start where others started. Start where
		
01:01:58 --> 01:01:59
			others finished.
		
01:02:14 --> 01:02:15
			Because for example, certain,
		
01:02:16 --> 01:02:19
			editions of certain books may not be suitable
		
01:02:19 --> 01:02:21
			or some may be better, so you must
		
01:02:21 --> 01:02:23
			ask before you buy and start reading and
		
01:02:23 --> 01:02:26
			benefiting from books, which books are better in
		
01:02:26 --> 01:02:27
			the opinion of the
		
01:02:37 --> 01:02:39
			Because the person must have a shaykh who
		
01:02:39 --> 01:02:41
			must be able to tell him which book
		
01:02:41 --> 01:02:42
			to choose,
		
01:02:42 --> 01:02:43
			which edition,
		
01:02:43 --> 01:02:46
			who actually checked it, and all these issues
		
01:02:46 --> 01:02:46
			are important.
		
01:02:49 --> 01:02:50
			Last
		
01:02:54 --> 01:02:54
			note.
		
01:03:15 --> 01:03:17
			And therefore, if you this is a very
		
01:03:17 --> 01:03:19
			important issue. If you seek knowledge, you must
		
01:03:19 --> 01:03:22
			follow one way. For example, you come to
		
01:03:22 --> 01:03:24
			a one sheikh and he says, you say,
		
01:03:24 --> 01:03:27
			in this field of expertise and knowledge, what
		
01:03:27 --> 01:03:29
			books and what for way I should follow?
		
01:03:29 --> 01:03:30
			He gives you the way and the books.
		
01:03:31 --> 01:03:32
			Then you go to another sheikh. He gives
		
01:03:32 --> 01:03:34
			you another way and the other books. Then
		
01:03:34 --> 01:03:36
			you go to a third one. So this
		
01:03:36 --> 01:03:37
			is going to waste your time and not
		
01:03:37 --> 01:03:39
			make you understand. So you must follow one
		
01:03:39 --> 01:03:40
			way.
		
01:03:46 --> 01:03:48
			And, what is important is you find the
		
01:03:48 --> 01:03:50
			proper sheikh, Alim, who understands and is,
		
01:03:52 --> 01:03:53
			and he has
		
01:03:54 --> 01:03:55
			achieved great,
		
01:03:55 --> 01:03:58
			heights in his field, and he's an expert
		
01:03:58 --> 01:03:59
			and follow his advice.
		
01:04:03 --> 01:04:04
			We will finish by what said
		
01:04:05 --> 01:04:06
			in a beautiful way.
		
01:04:09 --> 01:04:09
			Ibn Uqayim
		
01:04:10 --> 01:04:12
			said the knowledge is of 6 levels.
		
01:04:14 --> 01:04:17
			The first is to correctly ask a question.
		
01:04:21 --> 01:04:22
			The second is to correctly listen and
		
01:04:27 --> 01:04:28
			third is to correctly understand.
		
01:04:31 --> 01:04:32
			The 4th is to memorize.
		
01:04:35 --> 01:04:36
			The 5th is to teach.
		
01:04:39 --> 01:04:42
			And the 6th is the actual fruit of
		
01:04:42 --> 01:04:44
			the knowledge is to act upon it.
		
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			It's a very important topic.
		
01:04:59 --> 01:05:02
			Sheikh Faisal and Yaqir Al Jaza. Inshallah, the
		
01:05:02 --> 01:05:04
			sheikh will make it into a little booklet.
		
01:05:04 --> 01:05:07
			Hopefully, we'll benefit from it, because almost everything
		
01:05:07 --> 01:05:08
			he has mentioned,
		
01:05:09 --> 01:05:11
			unfortunately, a lot of people don't follow.