Abu Taymiyyah – The Nation of Memorization (2020) Podcast
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Austin Abu Tamia have with Allahu Allah Allah welcome Shekar Salam
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So, today we're going to talk about a very important topic to
the Muslims. And this is a topic that really if you focus on you
think about it, it's the whole of the region is affected by it. And
that topic is have and the importance of it, and how to
balance between the dean and the dunya and all this sort of thing.
So I'll let you take the floor and discuss what you had in mind Shang
Han the learner of law Alameen wa salatu salam, ala Ashraf and MBI
on mousseline Nabina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi was to limit
this theme and Kathy on and my bad.
The concept of an HIV is something that the Sharia encourages, you
can find that Allah subhanaw taala
has mentioned in the Quran and likewise in the Sunnah of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
you find that there is numerous piece of advices
where we are encouraged to memorize and I'm going to
inshallah have time to go into more detail shortly. And then you
find also the Companions who gave a lot of time memorizing and then
those who came after him. It's something I need g by the G
generation of the generation, something that you know, they
always encouraged not only themselves, but they're also
encouraged the people around them. We know that the religion of Allah
subhanho wa Taala was preserved through memorization so
Allah subhanaw taala tells us in the Quran, Belle who is to be
united faithful duly Ladino to
rather these are verses that
is in the hearts of the people of knowledge. Okay, hustle bustle
Rahim Allah Tana, he mentioned something very profound commenting
on this verse. He said
he had had the metro and have this Alma has been gifted with
memorization. And then he said, Well can M and M Lucha ja Corona.
Maya Corona kitab. Home in Neverland, us for the nation's
before the nation of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, they
only used to read their books. Okay? They never used to memorize
it. Throw me that article. And then after learning what's inside
of these books, let me follow Elon the balloon. They will memorize it
but rather the only one that would actually memorize these books was
the prophets, Allah subhanaw Medina has made this a nation that
memorizes his speech, okay.
You find also through the advices of the messenger sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam him encouraging it.
We were told about the solitary calf, man happy lie Shariah 10 Min
solitary Gaffey will seemingly fit knitted the gel whoever memorizes
the 10 is from solid calf is going to be protected from the trial of
the gel. Also another Hadith we are told that the messenger
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he said now that our long run semua
Makati fava for heavy Allah.
May Allah azza wa jal glow in the face and this is the Mr. Lies and
making dua for them, right. The one who hears my speech for heavy
la he memorizes it, he comprehends it
Somebody you believe, and then after that he conveys it. Okay, so
this is now the Mesilla Valley, we're still making dua for the one
who memorizes the revelation.
And we know that the
species of the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as
Allah tells us in the Quran, in Hawaii law, whether you knew her,
or my younger one in Hawaii, in Hawaii law, when you hire, he
doesn't speak out of his own desires, but rather he has nothing
but Revelation. So to memorize the Quran to memorize the Sunnah makes
individual Mobarak you see makes one, really bless it. Really think
about all the blessed things that we are told about in the Sharia.
You have
Hamlet's Alajuela, he was salam. He became Mobarak because the
Quran came down onto the messiness, allottee with some
rain, we can bless it
and became the best of the prophets. And then you have debris
became the best of the angels. You know, the Quran came down through
debris, right as Olivia referred, I mean
and then you also have the month of Ramadan. Wow, a month of
Ramadan became the most blessed of months shadow Madonna lady on
Zelophehad Quran because the Quran came down in his best month,
layers of other came the
most greatest night in the month of Ramadan which is blessed
already. Because in the now if you laid it in other, you see, so if
somebody wants to become blessed in his life
then you know, be assured that the Quran you know, turned to the
Quran because the mister lady was some What did he say? hydrocodone
and tar lemon Khurana bailando the best of you those who learn the
Quran and then they go and they teach it. Allah here, you know,
Simon Quran, the one who accompanies the Quran, you will
struggle to find anybody who's more happier than him. Yeah, the
blessings that it brings to his life and it just doesn't stop
there. Even the hereafter. We are told that a missing a solo and he
was telling me you said your partner when you saw him as Barney
ACARA What do you work till contoura Terrific dunya Feynman
zero tech and the alchemy Ayat INTEGRO. Allah you know he's
taught to rise, or in the 18 Takara haha. He's taught to rise
on on the Day of Judgment.
In the Quran is memorize, memorize, acted upon it your
company that
you see, I just want to touch on a point that you raised here and
obviously we know the virtues of memorizing the Quran. But there's
something that you you touched on that was that the speech of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is revelation from Allah
subhanaw taala as well. And this memorization also holds the virtue
and can bring blessings in our life. And I think we find in
nowadays that we give such a great importance to memorizing the Quran
which is good is Jamil amazing. What about the Hadith of the
prophets of Allah? I said, and I think this is something that we
the viewers, and all of us need to understand that this memorization
holds a great virtue as well yeah, without shadow of a doubt. We know
obviously that you know memorizing the Quran will also learn it is
the origin of all sciences.
So much so that even Imam unknown Rahim Allah Allah He said, Whoever
memorize the Quran, and also learns the Arabic language
properly. If that's her Allah, He said, I don't know. All the other
sciences they will open up for him Subhanallah okay. And the Quran
and the Sunnah they are where we take our religion from right?
We're not just like on your own, we just take from the Quran we
don't take from the Sunnah of the messenger Salatu was Salam. Rather
the Quran tells us to go and follow the Sunnah because the
messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would explain to us that
which would be vague in the book of Allah azza wa jal
was the naked vikhroli to be in a nasty man whose name is Allah says
We sent down upon the Quran so that you can clarify to the people
that which has been sent down upon them right. And, and also if you
look at the way the Quran is explained, the Tafseer is done
a new and you find this in the books that will sort of tafseer
the fundamentals of tafsir the first step to take is to expand
the Quran with the Quran and the next step is the Sunnah. Use the
sunnah to explain the Quran, because you can't know
how many prayers you carry out through the day in the night
without the Sunnah of the messenger.
Allah says and upon well Timo salata, what are tools that
establish the prayer? Okay, how do I go about establishing this pray
that Allah azza wa jal speaks about? Does it tell me in the
Quran that there is five daily prayers and what to say and what
not to say? No, you have the Sunnah of the messenger sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam or for that like the hadith of your IRA, when the
mister lady was taught the companion how
To pray and one who did not pray the proper prayer said to me the
home de la sala divisibility all the other myths that we look into
the difficult of them until the end of the day. So, you find that
in the Sunnah, it
elaborates that which has been mentioned vaguely in the book of
Allah. And there is in the Sunnah as all that which is mentioned in
the Quran. Okay, so, you need the Quran and the Sunnah in order to
be able to leave Islam. Correct, okay. And when an individual
memorizes Allah, there isn't a feeling there's more sweeter than
knowing how to carry out your religion. You know, the fact that
you have in the back of your mind every time you find yourself in a
particular circumstance, situation, and then you have the
Hadith flowing through your mind, of what to do and what not to do.
You know, you're carrying the way in, in your hearts upon Allah. So
carrying the revelation, the two sources of knowledge in your
heart, and, and how can somebody then turn around and say to me
that you're wasting your time, or there's maybe more greater things
in life that you might want to
take time and
so, so true, so true. I think the you know, obviously, this is the
Ursuline the foundation how important that is and how
important memorization is because you're carrying the two things
that the sources of our religion
Yeah, so how does one now balance between their deen and their
dunya? So my one might say something that came to mind before
we go into this point. So like, you know how we love the Prophet
somebody was sitting now and we want to be like him. Okay? Doesn't
it only makes sense that we study the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam with every step that he took in every move that he made
right? And claim to love the mister lady was salam.
You know, we learn about him, right? Even there's a verse in the
Quran, which remember him adore him a lot and he called the iron
mana. The verse of examination.
And this verse is when Allah azza wa jal said call in contempt to a
bone Allah for Tiburon, you're welcome Allah say turn on him and
if they really love Allah and follow me, and Allah will love
you, right? And Hassan boasting a great Tabea a commented on this
and he said that a more a non your hipbone Allah, Allah, sola fepto,
la mala, we had the layup, somebody who claimed that they
love Allah and His messenger. So he tested them with his verse. So
the true lover of Allah as origin is messenger. He's going to spend
a big chunk of his life learning about the Quran, memorizing it,
carrying in his chest, it becomes like The Walking Quran like you
are carrying what Allah sent down upon His messenger. And then you
have the message Salatu was Salam sunnah is that you're a walking
Buhari. Okay, you're a walk in, say Muslim, okay with all of these
a hadith which speak about how the Prophet saw some lived his life
you're carrying in your chest. And whenever you find yourself in that
situation, you're there, you know, quickly acting upon how the
messenger Salani wisdom lived his life, wow, it's affecting your
manners, mannerisms, and everything. And that can only be
done. This is a way of life, as they say, right? I studying and
memorizing it. Because if you just study a lot of time attend
something you forget the script, as opposed to somebody who's
memorized all of these Hadees is just flowing through his mind. You
see? And yeah, so again, so you know, that brings me back to that
question. I asked that, how does one now take this information and
know that their brain, they have to give a lot of attention to the
Quran a lot of attention to the Hadith. And, you know, and
memorize, how do they do that with the lifestyles that we have, like,
one child might be in school, from the hours of nine to three, and
you're saying now you have to do have and some people might be in
university, some might work? How do we balance between the dean and
I and the dunya? That we have really, very good question because
it's a span and just the other day I was speaking to a brother about,
you know, balancing between the two. How he really badly Subhan
Allah wants to learn the deen of Allah azza wa jal. Obviously, the
moment you start,
you know, getting kids, you've got family, you're not going to have
the same time that you had before on your hands. Okay, like you have
maybe now and
and there's a way to balance it. There's a way to balance it. And
there's number of things that we can speak about. But the first
thing is that you really have to put your mind to it. You have to
show Allah that you really want it. Okay. As for going into the
pursuit of knowledge halfheartedly is just the you know, your you can
call it maybe like a losing battle. Yeah.
Even some of the scholars of the past, like Azula, Rahima, longtime
friendship Zuri,
and Sherpa.
They all mentioned
that
if you give your all to knowledge, you're only going to end up
getting a little bit.
So imagine if you only give like a little bit, so you're not gonna
expect to get much receive. So you're gonna have to give it your
all
in order just to get a little bit by, but then obviously, you've got
our circumstances here, aren't we in the West? We've got, you know,
trying to get an education and
I, as an individual went to university. Okay, I was studying
civil engineering, so not in any way. Am I going to sit here and
belittle the importance of getting an education and things like that.
But as time went on,
the conviction in my heart just became more and more firm that lie
we spend so much time learning about Pythagoras theorem. So a
squared equals b squared, but a c squared are kids if you ask them
today.
They'll tell you all about condensation, evaporation,
alliteration.
Alliteration, right, and alliteration. Alliteration it's
been a long time it's a long time and all the other patients that
are out there right it's correct Yeah, mashallah Dino inside out.
And but when it comes to the deen of Allah azza wa jal, its source
sad. Well, I remember Subhan Allah this is well before I went to
Medina, after I came back from Yemen.
I stood outside of the masjid.
And I started questioning some of the children over there.
And so I started asking them, you know, very casually, what's the
what's the meaning of this? Now?
Some of the kids turned around and they said, Oh, it means peace.
Some said is the way of life. And the reality of the matter is, is
this way Sam actually means so I started explaining to him that Al
Islam has three components, you know, it's disturbingly labor to
hate to submit to Allah subhanho wa Taala with monotheism Tauheed
well in Leandro with bar and also to be submissive with regards to
obedience to Allah azza wa jal Bharat mission Qi and then also to
free yourself from Shiva and his people and they looked at me i Wow
what you just told me what what exactly yeah. And
and you can clearly see that they had a completely distorted
and of course, you know, peace and way of life. These are elements of
what Elissa means. But is it in essence what it is that means? So
I remember Subhanallah in a different massages for the next
eight weeks, the Hotbot was about what does Alistair mean? Allah,
Allah He
likes panela like we throw our kids into these jungles and
according to jungle, I've been to university and I've seen the
onslaught
on the Muslims there. Yes. And how easy it is for them to,
to slip away from learning the deen of Allah subhanho wa taala.
And knowing the basics, you have to understand that there is
Orientalist people who learn our religion, not their religion, they
are learning the religion of Islam day and night, in order to use
this as a mechanism to strip you away from your religion.
Well, like even the way he quotes the verses of Allah,
you think to yourself this, and he's not even a Muslim. Yeah, so
I'm Catholic guy. And the tweet is there and everything Subhan Allah,
that we as Muslims, we haven't gone out to learn the religion and
then by the time it's too late, once they've apostate it, because
we as parents, we haven't really put in the time and the effort to
instill Islam into them.
We get a phone call saying Oh, please talk to my son. See, see,
this is something that, you know, some parents might argue that you
know, I send my children to madrasa I know they go to school,
yes. Okay, but we got caught at home they pray, is this really
instilling that Islam in them? Is it removing them from the danger
of Shabbat and the shower? So obviously, when it comes to the
fitting of Shabbat,
there must be there must be an individual studying the deen of
Allah azza wa jal and memorizing the Quran. You know, it comes with
such great benefits every half that you're reading, you're
getting a reward for it. As we are told in the video again, in 10
rewards for every letter that you read.
It's kind of like, you know, the reward is immense with regards to
that. But there also has to be an element of
you studying the basics of your religion, how to be able to rebuke
some of these doubts.
And the way to get to that point is to build yourself a foundation.
Okay? What a lot of parents do which are
Allama Berek is very good. They send her children to Oran school
and they memorize the Quran. But are they being told basic Samak
studies a lot of the time it's not. Okay.
So this is again, you know, a responsibility that we should
really look at
learning about, you know, the
learning about Allah subhanaw taala. And he's missing just a
line, he was in some of the doubts that the kuffaar they throw
against our children, because if he doesn't know, it's gonna go
into this jungle, as we mentioned before, and he's in this arena, we
have all of these
Shayateen throwing the arrows at him. Yeah, it's going to be so
there has to be, you know, one studying the deen of Allah. And
especially now, you know, the COVID-19 You brought love here?
Well, one can be studying online this way. Because even Subhan
Allah
at this college that some of our brothers run called Knowledge
College, people go to school in the morning and go to university
then in the evening. They're taking like small little books
like a tablet or hate. So they're combining between to the dunya
studies, and also the Dean studies, because my brothers and
sisters will lie.
You know, I recently lost my brother at the age of 22. Study
neck.
It just made me think so much more, you know, that
at the age of 22. Look how young he was. That's around the age that
somebody graduates from university.
Okay.
Imagine you spent all of that time learning about Mufson engineering
and things that are which is good.
But then you pass away
you know, your life comes to an end.
What do you have
to save yourself from the fitting of the grave? You know,
while you're going to take with you that certificate, yes, it's
going to help you in your dunya or like at the end of the day, and
I'm saying there's somebody who's studying civil engineering and on
top university right, that certificate is not going to
benefit in your grief.
That brings to mind Subhanallah something that there's always two
headaches that come to my mind when this kind of
discussion pops up.
One of them is Hadith the Prophet Salaam. He was someone who said in
Nara Julio saldi cityneon.
There is one who prays for 60 years from our took Bella home and
solid, but his Salas his prayers are not accepted from him. Lalo ut
Morocco while at Massoud, perhaps he completes the record. Hello ut
Morocco perhaps he completes the record but he doesn't complete a
suit. When I look at Masuda when I go to Morocco, and perhaps he does
the sujood properly.
He doesn't do the record properly, all of these years of his life
because he didn't take out
some time in his life to learn the basics. Salah has not been
accepted from him. My dad one time he told me a story. Okay.
He was telling me that there was a gathering and you had all you
know, types of professionals there. So when the time of Salah
kicked in door prayer, they all looked at one another to see who
is most qualified to lead the Salah. So what they did was they
put the doctor
Wow, to lead the Salah.
So when they put the doctor forth, so relieving the salah right is a
lot of prayer.
And to everybody's astonishment, his thoughts reading
the fat how loudly when leading the Lord prayer.
You know, this is a man who's maybe what in his 60s in his 70s
meeting, doctor, medical doctor, but when it came to a lot of
prayer, you see
another something that I saw going around on social media was a
famous actor who died in in Egypt.
And
so he's Janaza arrived, right? So everybody's like all his actor,
friends, singers, they all participate in the salata. Jenessa
we know when you pray the cytogenet Yes, fortec be right,
right. Allahu Akbar and you read the fattier log, but then you do
the Salalah Nibi and Allahu Akbar, make dua and then after that, you
said I'm out after the fourth. Allahu Akbar, right. So, as the
Imam said the first Allahu Akbar,
okay. They prayed. They read the fattier and these are all singers
and actors, right? The second Allahu Akbar, they all go into
record.
60s or in their 70s some are even older than that.
Why am I mentioning this?
Not mentioning this out of Bellator mentor to make fun of
these people, rather from the angle of is it really fair
We spend so much time learning everything else, except Allah azza
wa jal when it comes to Allah, it's only when I find time when I
find time, okay, we, we build Subhanallah as we, you know, we
build our lives. Okay, disconnected from Allah, Allah is
always second, it's always what is going to bring me money first. And
then when I get the time. So then am I, you know, tend to Allah?
Yeah, so the question is now like, how can we instill obviously,
understanding the importance of taking care of the importance of
actually not being imbalanced, but there being more weight on Islamic
preference than the dunya preference? Because that's what's
going to benefit you? How does the have? How does memorizing how does
that change or help us in our journey? Would you say that
instilling in our children from a young age, a lot of memorization,
when they get to a certain age, they've got the head youth they
know how to navigate so now they can be better individuals? If they
do go to all the sciences? Are we saying that it should be a
lifelong journey and Jimmy and ice
understand that have
it eases the knowledge that we're pursuing? Wow, okay. This is
something that helped me and this the advice of the scholars
present and past
an understanding and also have the two things that go hand in hand
with one another. Okay, it's not just like us memorizing like Paris
and not knowing what we're memorizing, right.
So when you memorize the book of Allah subhanho wa taala, as we
mentioned before, the same Imam Nui, you find that everything else
you know, starts becoming easy for you. Okay, because they all
somehow they come back to the Quran and Arabic language, okay,
or lie or make things so much easier. Okay. And if they're
memorizing at a very young age,
as Haslam Abbas you're going to mention has embassy quite a lot is
it great Tabby, he says lol amorphous sillery cannot even
hedger.
Attaining knowledge from a very young age is like carving into
stone law. What happens when you come into stone stair is going to
remain right. And this is why I never memorized the Quran at a
very, very young age. I was like maybe 18 Around the age. But those
who did memorize the Quran at a very, very young age. When Allah
one there is times when they leave it more than everybody else who
memorized it when they were older. And they just need to come back,
refine it, you know, just go back a little bit, refresh it, and it's
definitely tends to stick.
And likewise, everything else that you teach them at a very young
age.
I still remember from this very day, some of the advices that my
dad used to give to me when I was still young. Wow. You see,
I remember even like something that my mom said to me. She said
to me when I was trying to memorize one. And she caught me I
think on my mp3 at the time, right?
Listen to music or something. And she said to me, Hammond, you're
not going to be able to combine between memorizing Quran and
listening to music, it's just not going to happen.
You know, we always look up parents, as if they're backwards,
you know, the out of touch, you know.
And we're more smarter because we're from the west and everybody
has fun. Later on. I came across a theme and they're not famous in a
line of poetry. Or he said football Kitabi or hobo and hand
in Arena vehicle be Abdeen lace aged me and the love of the Quran,
the love of music are two things that can't come together in one's
hot panel and then you begin to appreciate your parents even more.
So the advice is that one gifts to his children at a very young age,
you might think that it's falling on deaf ears. But the reality of
the matter is, the more you repeat it, the more you'll stick. Okay,
as if, but if you go in with a negative mindset, or they're not
gonna they're not gonna understand anyway.
Yes, they're not going to understand even the Hadith of the
young child who was eating one time with the messenger sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, Mr. IGNOU Selim
said one time was even the prophets Allah it was setting him
and my hands were going everywhere. My hands were going
everywhere.
So the messiness Allah had he was somebody said to him, Johanna
Semilla could be Amina go Colima URI because the mentioned the name
of Allah II was in front of you
and he with your right hand like Subhanallah if you now put this
into context with what happens today, I've heard of my own very
is a relative seeing when I told look your daughter's listen to
Justin Bieber. Ha she was just a little kid.
She's just a little kid. You
Don't worry, she'll grow out of it. Really,
you know, what one gets used to from a very young age normally
sticks with normally sticks with them. And that's not to say that
if you advise them accordingly a very young age later on, they
might even go straight, you know, at the end the day you fulfill
your,
your responsibility.
But yeah, you know, the advices that the parents give to their
children from a very young age and the effort that he put in, like, I
still remember till this very day, you know, I can't remember where
it was. But I have some images in my mind of where I was sitting,
the building itself. You see, I don't exactly where in Holland
there was, like me, you know, being taken from one place to
another to read Quran. And my dad taking me into taraweeh.
And he really had an impact on me, even when there was times when I
felt off completely. When I was in London.
I would feel that guilt in my hive, I wasn't going to Juma. I
was in praying.
So yeah, these kinds of things really help as opposed to if
someone never had that advice,
was never taught anything about his religion. So he asked himself
like, well, what impact is it going to have? Why Why should I
even do it now?
There isn't anything that's kind of like pulling him back towards
that.
Yeah, it's such. So next question I really want to ask is, what is a
good method that we could advise our children, teach our children
or uphold ourselves in how we memorize the text the book of
Allah azza wa jal, and the son of the Prophet Suarez cinema as we
know, this is going to help us navigate through life. And like
you mentioned those times where we might slide slightly were pulled
back because of that which is retained in memory. And that which
we have a fear of Allah azza wa jal. So what's the best best
method to bring about that solidity in terms of like
techniques? Yeah, techniques or times of the day? Or is there
anything that stands out that a person should do in order to
manage their health?
This is actually a principle for everything that a person studies
at Takara
constantly repeating that what you're memorizing
whatever you've memorized, and you read it so many times right, is
bound to stick with you.
Even the poetry says we're characters Illuma fit the Corrado.
Jairo moraine is behaviours are elected as an enemy of little
Kenzie Murphy lead the Tula to Attell letter. He says, be
repetitive when it comes to knowledge.
Indeed, repeating something quite a lot. He says hi Euromarine in
the behavioral cycle, and is one of the greatest things that aid
and assist an individual in gain the solidity with regards to that
which he's studying or memorizing. And then he says he will reach a
point where electing as an enemy will will overload Ken's in
warfare he loses that lead the two letters
will end up you know, treasure arising that knowledge will attain
it and it is a sweetness which you
can't describe with words.
And then he goes on to say a year they didn't come up with one other
and in Hammami half elimination.
And then he asked what is his leather? You know, what is this
type of sweeteners that a person gains from
repeating knowledge? Okay.
More John, and then he gives a piece of advice. What is this type
of advice that he's given to the people he says, fella you Melinda
cometa? Corolla? Hello, yeah, hello, is that
okay? He says don't get bored. When it comes to constantly
repeating knowledge. Perhaps lo Yang with Takara you'll you'll see
the sweetness later on once you become solid. What he's basically
trying to refer to is today you put so much effort in you repeated
it so much. months down the line, you got busy. Later on, you come
back, you just refresh it a little bit. Comes back and as it was,
wow. And then you remember all of that knowledge again.
It's there with you. Okay.
So that's something very important I want us to do people think okay,
I've just run through a lot Quran now. I've memorized it. I've gone
through the 114 chapters. And hulless I'm having a Quran. The
reality is that memorization actually starts now.
This is the piece of verse I one of my teachers gave me once you
finished. Reality is you haven't finished. That's just stage one.
The stay phase one. Yeah.
The real memorization stuff after you finished because what you've
done is when going through the whole Quran reciting on a teacher
You've taken little bits and bobs here you've read to your teacher.
But you haven't gone through the minutia behind the similarities of
the verses. And because you know, we know that the Quran is quite
similar with one another has chapters that are similar to
others in other parts of the Quran. So what that will allow you
to do is
really just master the similarities in a different
verses.
Like some of the techniques that
some of our teachers taught us when I was in, in Yemen was that
once you finish the Quran, 30 days, Saturday training, one just
every single day, and that just has to be like water. It's fine,
okay, it has to be a water
comic mistake. If you make a mistake, you have to do don't use
it again. Okay. And if you have to repeat that just again, okay,
every mistake that you had, you have to underline it with pencil.
Okay. And make sure you completely remove that. By repeating it so
many times you might have read some time that you're trying to
connect this verse with the next one 100 times, like when Allah
says in the Quran, Allah yo calf Iran, LA, Buddha, Mata Busan,
Korea, yo Kevin en la Abu audiofile, Kevin en la BU, so the
IATA connected, you're trying to connect the end part with the
following beginning, some is too long to just get the end and then
with the so you do that 30 languages, you know, and hear you
just repeating, repeating, repeating and then you do to Jews
everyday. So you can finish the Quran in 16 days.
And then you move on to three, then you move on to five, okay?
And in this period, you're just taking out all of your mistakes,
and you're familiarizing yourself to the different with Shabbiha the
similarities between this verse in that verse. What I would
personally do is I would write the,
the similar verse on the side of the page in pencil. Okay, okay, so
I know now this one's fat. This one is what even though the verses
were in the OMA to come home and Wahida for inner the OMA to
cometan Wahida You see, there's a while on the fact that sometimes
you find that one version sorts of baccarat and and other verses and
salty Brahim. Like for example,
with Bahuguna
user behavior now can we use the unicycle? Somebody doesn't have
the well, he has Bahuguna you see what I'm saying?
So all of this just helps. Okay, because what tends to happen is
one becomes very demotivated, he's left a little bit. I think he's
having a Quran he comes back, it's just become very watery again. And
because he says now I have to go through everything again.
And he just kind of just falls off from reviewing the Quran. So now
you've basically done five just finished the Quran in six days,
then you do 10 Use 1010 10 And then 20 And then 20 again. So
you've done the first 20 last 10 and then the first 10 and and then
you read the whole Quran in one city
when she even said to miss panela that one is not true. Have you
have until you're able to lead taraweeh
so in that you know that you've got this Quran solid, solid, yeah,
and then you'll be so relaxed in a sense where
every day after fajr
you just reviewed the Quran and you go on with your life.
And you start your day with the bulk of the Quran. Allah you feel
so
wonderful just waking up, you know living your life
because you started with the Quran. But someone might ask let's
come back to your question. And I think this is the million dollar
question for most people. How do I balance between both? Okay.
One of the things that we mentioned earlier is short Allah
has shown that you really want it
in the LME lowfield glooby compiler on YouTube. Allah says,
if you show that hair, if Allah azza wa jal sees iPhone, Allah
sees that goodness in your heart, He will give you the goodness that
he wants. There is people that day and night and are thinking about
how can I find time in order
to free myself up to learn and to memorize and allow Allah helps
them or lied or the Allah opens doors for them.
Okay, show Allah as always that you really really want it.
And
the other thing you can do is try and find a time when nobody is
going to be occupying. Yeah, this is very important here. I remember
asked this question scheffau cache of community have you had the
chance
That's right. Yeah. Yeah. The I love his recitation. He's a
very clear with regards to Quran and he like it for me
is very few people that when I look at them, I feel very
inspired. Okay. And me, I'm one of them, guys. When I see somebody
who's memorized it, I get excited. Yeah, of course. Yeah. And shuffle
caches like that for me. And apparently, from what I've heard,
he never stopped memorizing even now.
Like, I thought maybe everything is memorized now.
But for now, it's just been Rajani because you're an imam of the
Masjid.
Just gonna shoot. Exactly. He's got students. Yeah. So I asked him
when we met in, not last year, because it was no hedge, but the
hedge before that. Me and John Fontaine and brother, another
brother, we sat down with him.
Brother, we learn, we sat down with Chef Acacia. John was like,
you know, Johnson, and he was like, we're gonna, I was really
looking forward to it. Yeah. In order to ask him some of these
questions. I said to him, Chef, you know, how do you find time?
I'm sure you're probably married a couple of
you know, he got a couple of wives, you know, long buried?
And how do you do it? When do you find time?
Like, this is something that I wanted to get to the bottom of
when actually go back to the UK, after finishing Medina, because
there's going to be a period where I spend time there. Not in a
million years was I thinking that, you know, this year, we're going
to be here because the whole COVID-19
and it's difficult to lie, it's really difficult to me, Allah's
will help us.
So he said to me, that, try and find a time when nobody is going
to be visiting you.
So I said when she
because I tried to think about it, you're going to be leading a solid
phase, your time, you're probably going to have people busy, even
also Fraser square, when do you find time that nobody, no one's
occupying you. Because I said to him, like I personally want to go
back in the summer. Whatever I memorize is just eight months of
the year, whatever month or month and Fiat and Hadith that I'm doing
is just I say to myself, you just need to go there, just do that I
want to come back and continue again, I sit in Shanghai still
want to I just memorize the maybe the whole top and every now and
again, here are bits and bobs, but I don't see it as problem
memorization. He said
before it.
Because we could be an hour or two before a major and an engaging
memorization. Is anybody going to be knocking on your door on that
type one's going to be asleep, your wife's gonna be asleep.
There's probably going to need a lot of time throughout the day as
all your children are asleep. It's true. Because that's the time when
you can basically get to yourself. Giving yourself yeah, so I think
we will we take from that is that you know, one of the things is
going to impact our memorization or is finding that time Yeah, it's
not so much like juggling everything. But just taking a
timeout. This is my time for memorization. I'm going to fix it,
lock it off. That's the phone's off and the whole how the whole
and also being consistent. Being consistent. Even if it is
something small, like
rituals guide him along to Allah in His Kitab seydel hotair. He
says
to commune with my four mad though me Arsalan are Lehmann Philhealth.
Says
memorizing a little while you remain consistent, is a very
important principle when it comes to memorization. Okay, people
think that you have to memorize three pages and four pages and 10
lines approach now. Think about it for a moment. Tell me of a mandala
that you might be particularly interested in like a poetry,
grammar. Okay, Arabic grammar and via to numeric. It's 1000 lines.
It's a high literacy, for example, rounding up 1000 lines of poetry,
right?
If you just memorize
three lines every single day,
three hours not forget about three lines. Two lines. Okay, because we
are, you know, we were we're foreigners.
And, yeah, we're foreigners. And we find it more difficult to to
how many is there going to be on 365 days of the year was almost
complete as double double right. So that was looking at something
like 700
And then maybe another half year. Haas you're done with an alpha? I
think what you've highlighted is that consistency on the minimum
and once you actually doing that consistently, you might find days
Oh, hold on, I'll do three or four. And then you that's that
that consistency. You'll fall back is like two okay, minimum two.
That's that's how I'm gonna go. Is that correct to say that that's
the way you think about it? Of course, of course. I give
Somebody does three now. He's going to finish the Alfi in a
year. This is an example Saturdays and Sundays you take yours off.
Okay?
That's 28 days, or not 28 days, that's maybe what?
minus eight days from 3022 days a month, you're still coming out
with a lot.
A year and a half, you can finish that and fear that if you're doing
what three nines approach every day, but we know people do much
more than that.
I think it's very interesting that you've highlighted that because I
do know of a brother that it was kind of ridiculed in his class,
right? Because he was taking such small chunks. It was like, Yeah,
we're doing Paige and XYZ. But in the two years, he had completed
what they didn't complete, even though they started the race
really strong. And I think it's that, you know, that methodology
that some of us have is like, I want to hit the ground running and
I want to get as much in as possible, but rather slow and
consistent wins the race, right? Yeah, I'm having him Shahbaz. Zuri
great Imam in Hadith. He said this, he says woman other than my
Joomla 10 They have annual Joomla whoever tries to take so much
knowledge altogether, he loses once he's going to end up leaving
it. You know what I can tell him I am you Giuliani said You know, it
comes through,
you know, days and nights. You know, it's gonna take some time,
you know, some lines of poetry that I find really, really
beneficial is
is when the poet says when I took on studying with Pallavi math has
a journal Binay Larrabee Do not be staged, do not be hasty when it
comes to seeking knowledge. And then he says Murphy has Arjuna
been a lobby, someone who's haste he has never achieved anything in
that which he was trying to attain. So, so Okay. La ah then
you do not live in hookah dune until on Natla fie durante la
nella fee Bolivar
liason either nationally, or do you say La Easton either Nephalem
in Harada dune antivaccine Nile if he Tiber Nam, he says you know,
when you have days that you're trying to grow with anybody in his
right mind, like, halfway through just say, Oh, let me just take it
and start eating level you're not going to do that week.
And he's gonna you're gonna go through a lot. It's gonna get
tiring is a process. Everything. He goes, No one in his right mind
would do that. He says, this is take it easy. You're gonna bear
his fruits very soon.
So he said he can either knuckle him in hot water by doing until
Marinella Futaba. And your machine you own who other than me throw in
Nabila and Melody it will top up. Your hustle on behalf Heckman.
He says Then he goes on to say
when the Mercedes demand not
the way a river comes about is or a flood is when there's a whole
load of rain drop drops. Those drops form together. Exactly. And
then it turns into a flowing river. That's right. So that's
what he says on your machine on water. Then we flow in normal and
melody to the hot today something tomorrow something. Okay. You have
still in Monrovia heck mutton on will attain hikma he will attain
wisdom through this way in the massage the amount of knock on and
this is how the river comes about because you have a whole load of
raindrops that come together that end up you know taking the whole
city out. So you're gonna have to take your time, take it easy,
because we'll lay only I've seen it happen so many times. Even when
I was in Yemen. There was there was a big fitna. This was the
fitting of the roofs of lessons. Yes, Akula theater.
Like
people came from all over the world in order to attain
knowledge. They wanted that, you know, sacred knowledge, right? And
the noise is found in the books.
And
a lot of brothers would Okay, the chef now has authored a book he's
going to be teaching it, I guess, announced on a Friday. So Thursday
night, okay, and everybody jumps on it. Two weeks later, another
shareholder, the book, everybody's running towards that direction,
and then this one and then that weren't taken 5678 lessons at the
same scattered just scattered all around, and you're not going to
come out with anything solid. But rather you solidify something then
you can move on to the next one. As for memorizing five, six things
at the same time, is going to end up tearing yourself. You're not
going to make a solid and even Subhanallah something very
profound mental demon Rahim Allah Danna, you mentioned was many
still Bala Barak biofoam issue. Whoever tells himself that the
road is very long.
It's gonna be it's gonna get very weak when it comes to walking. I
can think about it for a moment, right? You got that mindset next
to the mind. Like they're dragging your feet, dragging your feet
exactly. You
But you can't tell yourself that like, you know, you just basically
take every day as it comes like slowly.
The whole, the whole, so be like Formula One. That's right, I
suppose yeah, yeah. So it's your choice to take the whole, like how
many laps they do, I don't know how many laps they do. But if he
tries to do the whole round, he's gonna crash. Yeah, yeah, that's a
very good example for the melodic pitstops. So you're gonna, you're
gonna take things easy, slowly, slowly, slowly, it will lie, you
will take so much knowledge in a very short space of time. And that
you're going to surpass a lot of people, even though that's not the
potential, but that's exactly what's going to happen. I mean,
inconsistent, not doing a lot. Okay, let's all be consistent, and
not being hasty. Take it easy. I think this is very vital point
that you mentioned here is because a lot of us sometimes we feel
like, you know, taking small amounts of knowledge, or not going
to every single class, like we're falling behind. Nowadays, that
mentality of our class comes up with run to it. But rather, like
if we look at it, if you got, you know, dedicated structure, and
you're going through it in a target path, like, order that
liquid, yeah, taking basically the knowledge in a structured way. So
this is actually taking a structured way, little by little,
you're going to arrive at a goal in
the lawyer and you come up with a lot. So you know, myself at the
top of the list and all those viewing don't feel disheartened
that you might take small amount each day on a longer journey, you
know, yeah, set yourself little goals and hobbies. I know a
brother, it took him eight years to memorize the Quran. Wow. And
everyday he was river actually.
He was doing everyday just a little bit.
Even if it means to three ayat to three, if you do it everyday turns
into page. Yeah, and that page turns on his. And then that has to
do with Jews. And Jews by the time you know, when you finish 10 He
remains consistent. This is very important. And that brings to
mind. So I'm just mentioning a whole lot of things that, like,
that's just coming to my mind, right? And I think it's very
crucial for people in the West, to have now grown old. And when I say
oh, they're no longer at madrasa age. Yes, they would you do after
that?
What we need to do is we need to swallow our ego, or lie. There's
times when I told brothers, and some of the students I was
teaching one of them. May Allah bless him Abdullah from East
London. I said to him, Have you remember the Quran? Right? How old
are you now quite old, right? You're no longer that Madras age.
If you really want to memorize, you want to stay consistent, go to
Duke See, you're probably going to be seeing around kids who your a
couple of years are a couple of years younger than you. But if you
want to like it, when you think about it,
the structures that are out there with regards to learning and
memorizing the most in the madrasa mostly for young and finding adult
classes. From what I know and Allah knows best is very difficult
to find, like as adults sitting around and they're reading and
memorizing Quran reading to a teacher the same way that kids do.
And, and not having that consistency of being able to read
to somebody can really hinder you, it really sets. You really you're
ready to do anything, right? So go do it. Allah is gonna hear your
ego, messing around little kids, but you're gonna have to do it.
You know, this one humility comes in. You know, I smile because
there's someone in my life
that I met and he stuck with me will lie. He's never left me. His
name Mohamed, he I met him when he was 88 years old. He accepted
Islam when he was 85 and accepted Islam because of his workers. When
he got sick, terminally ill, none of his family came to visit him,
but rather his workers who were Muslims came to visit him and he
asked me I asked like, Why do you come here? You're my workers, to
Islam, that it encouraged us to visit. So called Long story short,
I was speaking to uncle and he said to me something very
profound. He said to me, I said he's sitting in the kids classes I
said Uncle, Korea coalition, he said, I am three years old as a
Muslim. So treat me like a three years old law. I've got so much
more to learn, however, any list minute in its fullest. And I was
amazed by him shocked by him that he would sit with the kids and
learn how to read Arabic and at eight years old, and he would
learn in the class and it just it just blew me away. Honestly.
Like you said that it's it's it's something that we have to go back
to, even if we have to revisit, revisit or whatever it might be
like we do it with humidity because why we want to get to the
goal in the right way. And this can in fact be a man and
preventative from actually attaining that knowledge. When you
keep telling yourself I'm
old now. And I seen this in my years of studying knowledge in
Yemen the match. And likewise in Medina, one I stayed a couple of
years, in whatever instance you may have been.
He tells himself now I need to stop attending these lessons, not
because Hamas has learnt it, but the new students are gonna see me
attending this class, and they're gonna say,
Oh, he's the way, you know, why is he still in the class? Oh, he's
still got a lot of learning to do. And that will hit people. Why
should I hear you? Why should you care? You see what I'm saying? And
so what does he end up doing? He stops going to his classes.
Like even Subhanallah, the element of Islamist and why you are, you
know, pursuing this knowledge becomes deeply affected. You start
with, you know, paying too much attention to what the people are
looking at what other people think, or you're not going to get
anywhere. That's right. I read that example. Allow it, but I'm
going to quote you on that. Sure. Yes. This man. Really? Yeah,
honestly, he benefited me in so many different ways. And he was a
man that at his age, he would still pray the night prayer. And
he would be the first in the front row. And you would just see from
him, stuff that would bring you to shame. And you know, he would just
say, Look, I'm only three years old, I've got 85 years to make our
four bar, Allahu Akbar. I just want to pick something out of this
conversation we've had in it might seem a little bit off topic, but
I've noticed a lot that you refer to the poems of the dilemma. And
I've also noticed from Star diamond has and he also uses this
method of poetry. Would you say that in this day and age is
something we need to revive and revisit because a lot of the texts
of the lemma the scholars, they summarize it in a poetry format,
is that correct to say? And that you know, as a young child, you
know, we give them nursery rhymes you know, I was watching a podcast
the other day when a guy was saying Ring a ring of roses, you
know what comes next right? And certain things like that.
So should we not like encourage Aki, let's do some poetry and
revive this. This is revision. One thing I prefer is to memorize
poetry over
a method, which is just basically text. Because as you mentioned,
the poetry rhymes and he sticks until this very day. Something
that I remember from nursery is Sticks and stones may break my
bones but words will never hurt me. And it's something I still use
to this very day. People think
when reality this is what the scholars like Imam Chevra him
Allah Tala told us as well with regards to when you know the dog
keeps barking and the caravan keeps moving on, people are
speaking about you, should it really hurt you was whenever he is
basically an encouragement, stop caring about what people have to
say. That's correct. And you find that so many same as I can mention
to you right now. For me, I'm Chevier lions approach you heard
him when he said he will be called in for acro and Hakuna Lahoma
Jeeva is easy to survive and was either Hyndman karoun, Xandred
Hara Fatima and so many other lines that he mentioned, you know,
all Lusaka tilaka, who seem to go to the home,
I'm not gonna mention it, it's just going to prolong everything,
but I can point is, it really helps you remember, as opposed to
like text, because it rhymes. I just find it you know, everyone
has a preference. Some people they
find it easier to memorize texts.
Some people find it easier to memorize poetry, I'd rather
memorize poetry, and you have the YG bat of the Salah, and like four
lines of poetry. Yeah. Like me, I'll be very honest, if in no way
am I gonna remember
YG batha man, like the eight YG. But just like me, you always, you
know, you mentioned seeing all those other ones not so you're
gonna be on the 14 pillars
is gonna be really difficult. So for example, myself, with regards
to the pillars of the Salah, there's no way I'm going to
remember for 14, if you were to ask me to list it. But I mentioned
the five lines of poetry that has the 14 pillars and there is not
allow me to remember everything. So everyone's just different. It
does make things easy.
I prefer it. And especially if we understand the poultry makes it so
much easier. And so much. I think if you look at it from from, quote
unquote, the West standards, right? And, you know, they have
instilled in our children, the use of nursery rhymes to teach them
the most part rubbish. But they do that why? Because they know that
children absorb rhythms and rhymes and they stick with us. And like
we mentioned Ring a ring of roses is in my head. I'm like, you know,
34 years old, and it's something I took when I was in primary school,
but it's still there. So I think that for the educational purposes
behind it for our children, I could see as a huge benefit
for it, and I think we just have more services in Arabic right in.
And I think it's worth mentioning. Recently brother John Fontaine
told me about this that
Abu Toba. You may have seen him.
I don't know much about him. Well, I can mashallah, you know, some of
the things that I've heard with regards to the works that he's put
together like, apparently he's poor like
poetry for like, all the chapters are filled together. Wow, those
little kids memorize his children memorize. Wow. So I think there'll
be a game changer. Yes, cool kids in the West. That's what they know
the English language, and they want something to memorize. They
start memorizing this. And then he teaches them how to make although
I wish I could do things in the English language. But icon
language is not the best. Me learning Arabic helped my English
because that was all, like street language that I was, you know,
when I was in London.
So I don't have that gift. But I said to John, you know, once it's
ready, please, I would like to be the first copy of that. And
myself. My kids. Yeah. So he is someone who has told me I'm which
I'm really looking forward to reading, I really could be a game
changer. For the kids. Apparently, he wrote when he was in prison, I
believe his chapters are 50 You know, how to make although how to
pray. And
I believe so. Because like, you know, everything that's got a
rhythm to it, or certain rhyme to it, we find that it sticks with
us. And, and, you know, much more so than just, you know, someone
having a general conversation. So I couldn't see the benefit there.
I want to make this segment now about some of the doubts that have
been brought up and try to tackle them, if you don't mind. So I'm
going to go through a doubt at a time. And some of them are quite
strange. But nevertheless, we have to mention them. So the first
doubt is, it doesn't allow memorizing doesn't allow for a
deeper understanding of a subject. What would we say was like, I
disagree with that. And anyone who memorizes will disagree with us,
or
was tasted the sweetness of memorization? Because we don't we
don't we don't just say memorize.
In fact, when you memorize, like, I'm going to give an example,
right?
You're going into an exam?
What do most people do? Memorize answers, they memorize the
answers, right? And they keep repeating it, they keep repeating
it, right.
And of course, we're not necessarily going into an exam
when memorize the Quran unless some people you know, they go for
Quran competition and things like that. Likewise, other sciences,
but the more you read it, the more it sticks with you. Okay. And once
it's stuck with you, you know, taking the explanation of what
you're memorizing, it just makes it much more easier. So as opposed
to someone who's not familiar with it,
like for example, right, give us sort of thing after got the first
page, you've like, repeated it so many times, so many times, so many
times, so many times, you have a basis on the back of your mind
now. Okay. And maybe you've you've taken just a brief explanation
that you've looked up the translation, and you go to a chef,
I will guarantee you that when you take that which you've just been
repeating so many times to a chef, and now he starts explaining it,
you will already have had the foundation in your mind. Now you
just basically take the details that come with it, which you then
add on to the foundation you've already built on Allah. Okay, so
now all you need to do is take that explanation and go over it,
and bring it up to the level of what you've memorized. As opposed
to the one who is not familiar with the text. He hasn't memorized
it. He goes to the teacher, he's got two things now to comprehend,
or to take in the text itself whatsoever. Okay, first, let me
look at a text. And then the explanation. So it's gonna take
you maybe triple the Time True. Is there anything very true, so I
remember our brother Yeah, seen one time he mentioned this, he
goes,
if you're going to, like read something so many times anyway,
you might as well just memorize it quickly. And and then basically
take the explanation, you know.
And also, this is not help us in order to. So the goal of
knowledge, correct me if I'm wrong, is to remove ignorance from
yourself, and then teach it to others, right?
Obviously, implemented actions as well, but to teach it to others.
So once you've got it in your memory, you've memorized it, is it
not now easier to explain to exactly so this will kind of throw
that one out of the wizardry like the deeper understanding would be
able to explain what you've learned. And there's been times
like me, like I struggle when I'm doing a hotbar to read from
something or to have something in front of me
and to also be able to speak to the congregation directly. I
struggled with that. So I said to myself, the only way I'm going to
get around this by memorizing it. When you have something
in the back of your mind, memorized, solidified or you're
relaying your own
To the people, you can speak directly to them. Yeah, it's free.
See what I'm saying it flows and that person who's sitting there
feels like you're directly speaking to him as opposed to when
you're like this and then like that, and I'm like this true
people tend to switch off true. Okay. And I always say to the
people as well okay.
Somebody's a moto apostate.
And you've just met him somewhere in the middle of nowhere. It
doesn't have to be the middle of no it could be anywhere there's no
time to go get your books or you're gonna say to wait for a
second and go home okay, because what the poet says is alums are
going halfway done where are you in for Jim O'Neill could rely on
files at a horrible jellyfish images in wherever McAfee Beatty
was sold out. If you're not somebody who has helped and
comprehension you just gathering books is not going to benefit you
are you going to come to a sitting with your ignorance while your
knowledge is on the shore up in the in the warehouse or in a
closet? Okay, you need your help over there. Right. Let me mention
two very quick incidents now that you mentioned this right?
Something that happened to me ma'am lasagna Rahim Allah Allah
Mohammed anniversary. One time he was carrying his books and they
were wrapped up in bags.
So as he's traveling,
it comes across some highway bandits, so they robbed him. Okay,
so they robbed his bags them thinking they have some expensive,
valuable stuff inside of these bags that they've just robbed.
From Muhammad Allah Zadie. So he's chasing after him, Please give me
back my books. My books are not going to benefit you.
So the big thief stopped for the shaker career or loss loss.
The leader he started laughing. So he looked terrible. Hamedan
resigned and he said Kay for Tesla, and Nokia hora de l Ma.
phenom, a husband Irving
Buckley to be that Inman was back then as animals here. Because how
can you claim that you've learned something? This is a thief saying
this. Okay, how can you claim that you've memorized we've learned
anything. And when We took your bags from you, you were left
without knowledge. And you didn't know anything.
So this is a man who's written books that is very well known
doesn't need an introduction. He's got almost phosphor. We study in
the university right? Or over to another. No Buddha, he benefited
from, you know, lasagna hammer feminism was tough. So that's
basically like, what people go back to.
So we're having others that also look at the Tawaraya. Right? This
is again, an important lesson for a person in disguise a thief who
just robbed me, forget him what he says, let me just continue with my
life. He said, had them stomped on and dug a hole low. I'll help you
She then EBV Emory.
This is someone that Allah azza wa jal caused to speak the truth to
me, which directed me in taking the correct path with that which
I'm pursuing. This is something that we need to just sit on for a
second mind that this bandwidth is thief came with the truth. And he
accepted it. Yeah, well, I how many times in this day in Asia, we
presented with a true from someone who is maybe a righteous
individual or someone who has your interest at heart, but you want to
take the truth and
remind them of something that will lead him to help mentioned he was
asked about the toe elbow, or being humble. He said and talked
about and unhappy with an other level that you submit to the
truth. And, and you act upon it. And you lower yourself to the
truth. You see Taliban in house, and you'll always have to retrieve
what's called the low and you submit to it and act upon it
right. And I look what he said, What else edge Helene Nessie, or
Bill Tolman, even if he was to hear from the most ignorant of
people you accepted notices after what Oh, send me a tome and sabe
and Kabul to me, and even if he wants to hear it now from a young
child, except for me.
So going back to what happened to Abraham in laws any he said, When
I reached my destination for the next three years, I memorize
everything. So the next time something happens, I wouldn't be
left without knowledge. And know and Allah is very important like
you know, the end that you have, it just allows you the most
important thing is to act upon that knowledge as opposed to
you've read something and then you forget tomorrow true. The reason
why we are queued in San naka de la Canal in Santa, you know in
Santa Fe hostellerie Any mankind Some scholars say when I assume
meal in San Luis Medina See, the reason why we could in San is
because we forget a lot.
So we forget and by you memorizing it keeps a with you, for longer
duration as opposed to if
you
If you were to just read it keeps with you for longer even though
even if you want to remember you're going to be forgetting, but
you have to what revise, you have to keep revising. The other three
I wanted to mention is
something they haven't they haven't even hasn't
even has them he was known for his very strong arguments, you had the
form of our hip that we follow today in the house was like, No,
he would bring his own arguments, and he would, you know,
stand by it. And his,
you know, his the evidence he would bring and the,
the points were very, very strong and convincing. And that wasn't
liked. That wasn't liked. It was like a boy hurry, right. So some
of the others who follow them into him. And of course, it's a
wonderful thing to be going through them at the end, because
the more they help you get to your higher your objective, which is to
understand the Prophet sallallaahu Selim speech, so there's nothing
wrong with following them at the hip. But there was a lot that went
on in his time. So they threatened him that they were going to burn
his books.
So when they wanted to do that, he dropped a couple of lines of
poetry on them.
Okay. And the famous lines of poetry they mentioned was failing
to hurry quality pasa lead to higher quality government Altair
Paso bello office Saturday, because if you burn these, you
know, these cases and these bags of books, right, you won't be able
to burn that which is inside of these books inside of these bags,
because these books are inside of these bags, but who have a salary.
You'll see room I hate a letter, okay, maybe we can zero in and
zero, you'd agree. Wherever I go, the end follows me. If I was to
get off and get back on, so he's with me. And he's also going to be
buried with me log in my grave. And he says they're only mean
harati Roctane McKeldin. What gooloo b l mean, K you're on so
many agree. Because leave of this, you know, this attitude of,
of wanting to ban books.
When he says, Speak with knowledge so that people can see who knows?
You know, because you know, when you defeat somebody in an
argument, it can hit someone's ego, right? If you want to, you
know, let the people see you as you bring your own arguments and
your evidence is and whatever have you.
And then he concludes and he says what he left the room to look at
at TV but attend for Kaduna, mattaponi Lay ministry. Otherwise
go back to kindergarten.
You know, who am I the money when I look at the advices of the
people of the past is just serves me as an encouragement. I like to
see the benefits. Or likely sometimes you're in the middle of
nowhere.
And you just need something
or sometimes someone asked you to give them a piece of advice,
something that they really need. You could just sit down lie man.
He could change his life. So there's been so many cases someone
asked for a piece of advice and was very specific. And then you
remember the Hadith that you memorize time ago, and it is a
sweetness that words can't describe. Even the results on
Ernie he says Kuhlman liat Halima saw him in her mom fled to her
door in months, every night that doesn't enter with you into the
toilet is normally you do not see they're not counted to be
knowledge, meaning you don't take your books into the toilet, right?
Or do you take your brain out? When you go into the toilet, you
take your ego in, and some people know names, sometimes. They just
they might be in the shower and a hat either going through their
heads. You know, it's
so Cierra so I think we'll bring it to a conclusion. I think
there's a lot to be discussed and very fruitful discussion. So in
conclusion, what would you advise those listening myself at the top
of the list and those viewers watching how to understand this
field, the importance of it the memorization, how to implement it
and how to benefit from it. Okay.
Just a very, very comprehensive question. Okay.
You know, we mentioned a lot of methods and some techniques and
things like not necessarily techniques maybe
for how to actually memorize us maybe discussion another time. But
what is most more important everything that we spoke about is
your intention.
And there's some lines of poetry we're having to hack me
but I always personally remind myself with because it's the fifth
and the four of us or life aim you know, attaining
you know, vast amounts of knowledge in short spaces of time
and memorizing a lot can be a big fitna for
or all of a sudden
especially now when you enter into the field of
Dow
you know if Savannah thought or hemella Danna, you know, admitted
they had a problem with his intention there Where do me and
you stand to see, he says something very profound when he
said
managed to che and I shed that immunity.
I haven't wrestled and struggled with anything more than my
intention, the anatomy lab earlier because it keeps changing. Yeah,
from time to time. I even at some level, you're given a hot boy,
you're given a lesson. If you're not constantly fighting your neffs
because, you know, you're quoting a hadith you're quoting verses and
things like that.
It could hit you in a way where you become self amazed.
So it's a battle. Okay. So having an alchemy, he speaks about the
reality of knowledge. He says, Well, how soon your enemy, my
ominously fatty level for ously semicha or Stone City luckyme.
He says the reality of knowledge that which I'm about to inform
you, so listen attentively and pay attention.
He then says whether Can I have a vocal foot? Yeah.
Well I bittersweet because rockabilly memory, the reality of
knowledge isn't memorizing the fatawa of the scholars word by
word letter by letter.
And also filling your exercise books with ink. That's not the
reality of knowledge he says.
And then he goes on to say
when able to see the color rocker behind me while at a subdural
soldering Gemini Wetherby and Tom Lee Hill mtef alemannia Wilcannia
also isn't you wanting to sit in front of the crowd?
You're sitting on the chair while everybody is listening? One thing
to have that position while you're like
sitting on the big chair, relaying that knowledge that's not the
reality of knowledge
because if you think that's the case, then you haven't understood
what I'm about to tell you.
So he says then I'd had to solder solder Jim Mr. Debian to me and
I'm tough alemannia But Kenny me.
While the EMA two is total, he do a better person not unbelievable.
shame me with ketamine. Also isn't you having a bigger Imam? Showing
the people I'm a person of knowledge now? Okay, giving off
the impression that is not the reality of knowledge.
And then it goes whatever you only Kiyani that even when I'm Kyla
Hemlock as far as local bombing.
It also isn't
being somebody who's able to say Yeah, any any you know.
And also
because you don't have a bit of knowledge. Sometimes what happens
is someone sees it's a bit flashy with how someone else speaks. You
know, the words that I use, they use it.
And you think to yourself, yeah, I just want to speak like that.
Okay, the sound flashy and have beautified speech, because there's
no knowledge.
And then he says, Well, I'd be Hemley Shahadat, in MOBA,
hydrojetting bizarro, bizarro Phil Colima. netrin woman told me,
knowledge also isn't having beautified decorators certificates
and you being able to quote, lines of poetry and text and because you
can come across very, very silky right. You think to yourself, Wow,
man, he's got all these lines of poetry, I wouldn't be able to
quote like that.
says this is not lunch.
So he concludes and he says balharshah to lie if you sit in
farlam he'll in Mokulua ennemi fantaisie me it's rather the
reality of knowledge is Hachette Allah
to fear Allah subhanho wa Taala with the knowledge that you have
facility with your attorney in private and also in public.
You see
purpose isn't just collecting information you know,
but rather to act upon it and to gain closest to Allah subhana wa
Tada.
So when an individual feels like he's not getting much
we say to Habibi, you know, you're in a bad whatever you are learning
as long as you're implementing in your life.
Then you're fulfilling the objective of that which you are
seeking. And that is to gain closeness to Allah as well and to
act upon the knowledge that you're studying.
Then he says for LM E L, L macular edema phantasmic. This is the
reality of knowledge.
So stick with it.
And this is very, very profound. I'm not going to say here talk
like,
you know, it's easy for me, you know, when giving Dawa and
standing in front of the people, and people coming up to you after
the hotbar
seem to actually there's like a lot here and this and that. And
then students are saying, Oh, we want to memorize Hi, give us
advice and things like that. It can really get to a person really
can.
But you always have to remind yourself it's a battle that we're
going to be facing, until we meet Allah azza wa jal.
So always just checking why you're memorizing why you are studying
is it's very, very important.
And the most important thing is our relationship with Allah azza
wa jal again, this is something that is going to help
my best are the alotta and anima. He said in them if all in them if
other mark and under in 81 he memorizes in accordance to his
intention.
So shift sign Hello, see me commented and he says fade out or
we also
have a either no fee that Oh, yes, philosopher, but we are however,
if one is very strong in his sincerity,
then his memorization will become strong as well.
So I think that's this the sorry to none of that. I think that's
the perfect place to end on. It's, it's, it's a conclusion that is
comprehensive. If you really want to memorize and you want to give
the importance to memorization. First, check your intention.
Secondly, understand that your relationship with Allah azza wa
jal has a direct impact on residual memorization. And,
thirdly, understand and comprehend that the level of a class that you
can achieve will reflect on the level of memorization you'll gain.
And on that note, as all panela
as we were speaking about the relationship with the one husband
was a lot how it can affect one's memorization.
So, you know, to mention Imam Shafi Rahim Allah to Allah as an
example, because he was an iron. He was a wonderful role model when
it comes to memorization and what Allah Azza would have gifted him
he was a sight
even even not being Rahimullah, Dinah, he mentioned this when he
speaks about the effects of sins. He lists like so many effects of
sins. The first point that he mentioned is Hinomoto being
deprived of knowledge, and then he mentioned the incident and of one
Imam Shafi sat in front of Elena Malik. These are two great Imams
from the four great Imams you know, Phillip
and the former they
when Imam Malik Rahim Allah Donna saw how sharp how intelligent okay
how strong his memorization was. He said to him that
in the RR and Allah al coffee I'll be can Warren fed outfit have
evolved meeting Macias. I can see that Allah azza wa jal has placed
a nor in your heart, do not extinguish it with the darkness of
sinning.
And it's kinda lame. I'm shaving him a long time later on his life
he complained
about his memory loss.
And to see the reason why his memory got affected because he saw
a woman's ankles.
She swam bangles and his memorization was so strong they
had to cover one side
of the book in order for him to be able to take in everything on the
other side so it doesn't get mixed up with that. He had to cover less
How strong is memorization was? So you mentioned some lines of poetry
to his teacher Asha kotula Wikia in all the incident between him
and his teacher Shaco Tula Wikia in saw heavy Varsha Daniella
Terkel, mousy, Barnaby and menorah and one more lie now, Danny I'll
see. So I complained to workI about my bad memory loss
and he told me to leave off sinning. He didn't say it mmm
Sheffy you know,
philosophy of media already coming out? No, I said to him for
shedding the network in my house he told me to leave of cynic
fostamatinib In menorah on one or light now who then he asked and he
told me that this LM is or nor
and this nor is not going to be gifted analyse. Does you know
whether this is with what we look at
or what we see with our tongues and how we backed by it we slander
we speak about others
the way I look at it as every time you look at the opposite gender
and I'm not looking at the first look because the first look has
been forgiven. If you continue looking
expect to forget something.
So I always wondered why did Imam shove your hammer lotta Anna go to
a Kia ignatia
Right,
because he said I complained to a kid even though he had a memory we
know the caliber of anima Malik and so many other teachers you
had.
So one time I found this
incident in sera Hola Mundo Bella, remember the heavy
where I didn't know I live in Hashem.
He says something about this man called Joakim Noah Jara Jara is in
Morro Bay to be at work here in keytab and caught. I never saw a
kid ever carrying a book.
In their own head, everything was memorization. So we asked him at
the Wellness Ian.
What is the cure for constantly forgetting? He said No, Akbar took
a Tamil movie if I was telling an actor when he goes Ebola, I will
by Allah.
He said tungkol mousy manager Rob to Mithila hukuk leave of singing.
I haven't tried anything like it. And this is exactly what Abdullah
Massoud said he said, In Nila Acebo Anna radula en Salah in
Behati. I think
I see that somebody he forgets knowledge because of a sin that he
falls into even mathematics or something similar so many scholars
you can see that the kalam is Matapalo
okay, it's Mattel Baba Xin Yanni it goes hand in hand with he goes
it's an accordion so on another.
So your relationship with Allah subhanaw taala is the most
important thing. If you want to get anywhere in life, if you want
to be able to attain this nor this is not like engineering, or
medicine or whatever have you. Okay, Salem is a completely
different ballgame. It is a more Huberman Allah. It's a gift from
Allah as a region that you take directly from Allah. And you ask
him to give it to something very profound that Michelle Saddam
Hussein, he said, and he really stuck with me. He said, in a calm
Lentinula Ilma. The Who, what, whether it be joda time eCola
because karate Mala is empty calmly duros
says you're not going to attain knowledge with having strong
memory. Okay? Or how good your understanding is? Are you
attending so many gurus so many lessons?
In the metal scene one Alma is simply Comala. He's just going to
attain knowledge with how truthful you are with Allah azza wa jal.
So you're going to have to keep asking Allah azza wa jal in a last
third of the night, oh, Allah makes things easy. Make things
easy for me, helped me with my understanding. Because you notice
three components, we don't just say always to the people, you
know, memorize, memorize, memorize. That's just one out of
the three elements and I don't even mentioned this. So you
memorize you attend classes with the Messiah, the hula and and the
students of knowledge. And you also read books, these are three
things that go hand in hand with one another. And
this is what makes a complete package. Okay? And it can be very
difficult to sit for ages it's not easy to sit down for hours reading
it's not easy to sit down and just memorize not easy.
So it's something you just don't have to ask Allah azza wa jal to
make things easy for you.
So to conclude, inshallah I think these lines of poetry would be
really nice
because it goes in accordance to Hadith when the messenger like it
was said
in Arabic on how you and Katie and when you stir Haman Abdi either
Rafa de la in your intimacy fra lies too shy and too generous,
that when his servant stretches his hands out to Allah de sends
him back empty handed. So you go to Allah azza wa jal so the polti
says are seldom in erotica tofield if you have this was too early
this Elta
ask your Lord for a trophy
what Atlas was sweaty this Alta and also be sincere when you ask
when do they suggest to do it you're often women beam was when I
did I suggest to allow it to often be monada who don't No need no
matter and when you go into prostration and you're calling out
okay, cool out with
that which Eunice la salatu salam ko doubt with
Allah He lands panic in the country not only mean Will you
testify to no one has the right to be worshipped true except Allah
and you glorify Allah azza wa jal and you say that I've been from
those who are pressed because there's another Hadith that says
there's not a personal mix to our with these weddings, except Allah
will respond back to him.
Okay, so you're showing you humility, on asking Allah azza wa
jal iniquity says well as in Burbo Quran so save the whole Bebo
looking Kurata keep knocking on that door. Keep knocking
and perhaps if you keep knocking,
Allah subhanaw taala will open the door
So you know when we seek knowledge the word impossible shouldn't
exist. Should keep asking Allah has urgent ly really struggled. Or
anything we're going to find time to speak about is there was a
point I could not memorize it.
No, I just asked the Liza virgin I remember Institut capitalising to
me ask Allah last third of the night.
Now, Allah will open doors you know, Shawn love Tana.
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