Hamza Yusuf – Sincere Advice for the Seeker of Knowledge
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the prophets Allah I sent him said that whoever seeks a path,
desiring knowledge so you set out on a path Sadek is one of the
names that you find, especially in North Africa Sadek. The idea of
the seeker somebody sadaqa Celkon, to go down a path, the Maslach.
Whoever seeks a path of knowledge, seeking knowledge, Allah will make
easy for them a path to Jannah. In other words, seeking knowledge
itself will facilitate your path to paradise. And then he said
salatu salam, we're in El Malayaka. Let's have a junior
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the angels will actually place down their wings
to the secret of knowledge and the available in me real donburi my us
now because they're so pleased with what that individual is
doing.
And then the prophets, Allah I said, I'm said that everything in
the heavens and the earth ask forgiveness for somebody who's a
scholar, somebody who knows
not a scholar in an academic sense, but somebody who knows the
deen of Allah,
who understands why they're created and has FIP in the deen.
So, even the NF rewired the whales that ask forgiveness even had to
* feed your Hadiya. Even the ant in the anthill
makes so far for the seeker of knowledge for the scholar.
And then he said that the scholars are the inheritors of the
prophets. What effectual MBI were either is what you gain when
somebody dies. So when the prophets die, what did they leave
behind, they left behind the treasures of knowledge and that
those treasures of knowledge, have inheritors.
But the inheritors, don't simply get it by just being in some line
of lineage like a person whose father dies and they inherit their
wealth. This inheritance takes effort, you don't get it by simply
sitting around it's takes effort and the prophets I sent him said
in a hadith sahih that more out of the land relates men you read the
law will be higher and you fapy Who fit in those who Allah
subhanho wa Taala wants good for.
Allah gives them understanding of the deen, you will fit in and this
is Jimena Sharqiya, the students of Arabic here in the intensive
this agenda shorty
was shorten my sorrows and maturity. So when the Prophet SAW
I sent him said,
the condition whoever Allah wants good for Allah gives understanding
of the religion not FIP
like knowing the outcome of will do and Tahara and Salah that's
part of it. But that's not the meaning of the Hadith the set of
understood fic the fuck he was the one in the in pre Islamic Arabic
the jehadi Arabic the fuck he was the one who could see a pregnant
sheep amidst the flock before others recognized it. You stumbled
tone, they saw what was inside. That's the puppy is somebody who
understands deeply it's not somebody who has a superficial
knowledge. And this is why they also Leona are the according to
mama shady, the also Leon the people that know how to do this
system bought these he called them a while that OMA they're the
generals, the general in Greek, the Greek word for general is
Strategos, which is where we get our word strategy from the
authorities have my alert, they look what's down the road, they
look what's going on down the road. They make their decisions
based not simply on what's expedient at the moment, or at the
time, these are ad hoc decisions. They think about what is going
what is going to happen down the road. That's the old Saudi
scholar.
But the important thing is this inheritance that the prophets I
sent gave. And this is a famous hadith of Abu hood era went into
the marketplace and said, the prophets inheritance is being
distributed in the masjid. All the merchants ran from their shops,
because they thought it was something that he had left behind
from material things. When they got there. They didn't find
anything other than circles of learning. And they said, Where's
the inheritance? They say? He said, This is the inheritance.
This is the inheritance.
And one of the great blessings is for you to have the time to study.
Many people are preoccupied. There are people in most Muslim
countries, many people start working when they're 1112 years
old.
Many places they don't have this extended adolescence, where they
get a chance to study. There's people we know every year in
Egypt, in India in these days, there are people that commit
suicide, because their grades were not good enough to get into higher
education.
Because there's a limited number of spaces. So just the privilege
of being able to study is interesting. So this inheritance,
which is it lies in the books, waiting for people like the
unabashed the one who goes into the graves to get what was buried
with the dead people. There's people that get up at night that's
when a bash works. They work at night they don't work in the
daytime because people will see them in the graveyard they sneak
out at night.
Right. That's when they do it.
Man or Amanullah they already cut them right if you if you think
that you can get this without effort a ban on what have you
thought of and Mohali.
You're wasting your time seeking what's impossible. You have to
there has to be effort. When I returned to Mauritania, many many
years later, I had left chest of all the books that I had, but I
had written and I'd forgotten this I had written on the on the the
chest and taped it onto the chest every time I open it. To get a
book I saw this. It was for me Mama Sophie, he said huddle room.
huddle room lay Anala who don't because *, you won't get this
knowledge with laziness. CASB incana Oh, what Habiba whether
it's acquired through effort, or whether it's given by God, it's
the there has to be kid, there has to be effort. And that's how you
get this inheritance. It's there for whoever wants it. And whoever
gets it will be honored by Allah subhanaw taala on the Day of
Judgment.
If you get the real inheritance, not the arrogance, that goes often
with having knowledge, thinking yourself better than other people,
because you're not seeing the minutiae of Allah. Allah gave it
to you, when you read you let it be Hayden, Allah gave it to you.
Yes, you're ever was from yourself, and you will be rewarded
for that. But the privilege of studying the time to study, the
ability, the intelligence, all those things are from Allah.
And that's why the prophesy seven if you ever saw anybody, and if
Tila and one of the greatest, CIP Tila is to waste time. This is one
of the greatest tips here is to waste time. So whenever you saw
anybody in IP Tila and tribulation, what did he say
Alhamdulillah Allah the if any, mean medterra can be praise me to
the one who has made me safe has given me if here has given me
wellbeing and not afflicted me or tried me or tested me with what he
has tested you with you don't say it out loud. You say it quietly.
And what when this this is a dua that I repeat constantly when I'm
if I go anywhere outside
You know and see the things you see outside you you have to you
have to say this dua because there's so many tribulations while
I've heard him will felt Balenciaga cathedra min min
herpetofauna and has preferred me so much over so much of his
creation, like privilege is real privileges real. There's all these
people that are resentful of privilege your privilege. The
Prophet was from Perez. You don't think Qureshi had privilege being
a Qureshi? They were a hammer Allah, the Arabs they're all the
Arabs respected them. The Quraysh had a special status even in
Judea. They were seen as a hola you didn't mess with orange. In
fact, even the name or age they were called Quraysh because the
most fearful animal in the sea is the shark
so so privilege is something from Allah for Donald Fatah about the
commando Bob he has privileged to some over you others why as a
test, it's a test one for the people that don't have that
privilege not to be presentable but they don't have it and to for
the others to use it for good. If you have wealth, it's privilege.
What do you use your wealth for? If you have intelligence it's
privilege. What do you use your intelligence for? These are all
gifts from Allah, which I know about the company Baldan fitna
atmosphere own we made some of you are tribulation for others, even
payment as you'll see it says the ignorant one is a tribulation for
the educated one. The educated one is a tribulation for the ignorant
one. The rich is a trial for the poor, the poor are trial for the
rich. The black is a trial for the white, the white is a trial for
the black. This is the reality of dunya.
What are you going to do with it?
Just being in America, your privilege.
Just being in this country, your passport, you can go places,
people live in country, they can't get out of those countries.
They're just trapped. The definition of a free man in Arabic
yet a surah, four yet to Heroku, haiku Yasha that's the definition
of Hurriya in Arabic, the definition of freedom is the
ability to go wherever you want. value or Nikita Lubalin in a
coffee roof, and we don't be able to do that by the fact that the
kuffaar can go wherever they want.
Mobtown ID, this is just temporary.
This is like the moody TONYAN who asked me if there were flies in
America. And I said, you know we rarely suffer flight and Marina
they suffer flies constantly. And he said that oh, the villa is the
jail and
he saw it as a negative thing. He said no, they're getting gender in
this world.
One of the solid, solid Hain said he was asked Mashiko truth about
what's the wisdom of the creation of the the the Bab
it's the job era to bother the tyrants.
What's the name of the breeze back about Beelzebub? In English we say
VLC, the bad the bad Lord of the Flies. It's one of the names of
the bliss.
So you're here seeking knowledge?
Imam.
It's attributed Imam Shafi emammal Joanie mentioned it many of the
books mentioned this.
He says Asif or or a he learned tunnel Enma in Nabi sit in certain
Vika until Syria be Vianney
all my brother or listen up Asif all my brother. You will never
achieve knowledge except with six things you need six things to
achieve knowledge. Let me explain and clarify the what these things
are. The Cat in oh the cat on
the car own were headphone with topbar on Walburga tone was Sokka
to stare then what tourism Annie?
Pina was 10 So he says the first is that cat
what is the cat
in Arabic That cat is related to fire.
So the Arab they say they cannot edit the fire like lit up ignited
so the QA is a type of fire in the intelligence and that's why they
say the whole the whole the whole show the to nerd. It's like he has
a fire that ignites so you tell a Vicki person something they get it
right away like fire when you light a fire it starts
the Arabs called the sun the blue cat.
The sun is VUCA you'll see it in poetry. The the Saba is even the
cat, the son of the the child of the sun because the morning is the
sun that produces the morning.
So the cat is a type of fire in the interior.
gents,
it's something that and that's why the Cato, the key to the Arabs,
when they when they, if you kill an animal, you say the CATO The
Cato shot. Why because you're taking the fire of life out of it,
you remove the fire of life that becomes comet. Comet is one of the
words for dead, which also means the fires out. So this the card
that Allah has put into your heads into your hearts, this that chi is
a gift from Allah. But it's it lasts so long. It's a fire that's
burning. And if you don't use it, it burns you. You either burn with
it, or it burns you it will consume you if you don't guide
that fire and the thing about sea of bliss is made out of fire
because it bliss is unstable.
Not and nor cinnabar. It has lf not so the lf you know it's that's
the arrogance. Fire is unstable. When you become arrogant. You're
unstable, nor right nor
the WoW is written.
The head is over the line. But the rest of its under the line. It's a
humble letter.
So Nora is a stable phenomena fire is not stable. And that's why that
CA is unstable. If you don't use it properly, and it becomes mucker
and Doha it will become craftiness that's what Aristotle said
excessive intelligence becomes craftiness
because it's not guided by light nor on either nor
the light of ye on the light of the intellect so the curtain well
Hilson what is *'s How do you feel they call covetous solicitors
for you hear us is to be concerned that aspiration to have desire you
have to have desire you can't gain knowledge without desire for
knowledge. You have to love knowledge
and this love can grow in your hearts is not something that
it young the more it grows there's there's something there's a
delight in knowledge. In fact the delight sometimes it's so great
you have to share it with somebody just because it's so amazing you
can find something that you didn't know that you know you want to
immediately go share it with somebody because it's so amazing
so you have to have a house if you don't have it with the Arune you
have to have fun factor.
Factor is one of the interesting words of the Arabic language
artists do the back you know we'll see a car
sucker for up to like you can break somebody's back. Fucker has
four meanings according to Roger. One of them is just intense needs
right another is having no material possessions like the
puppy and the mosquito Masada to lid for Cara when Misaki so the
mayor is somebody who has no material possession
and then fuck it is also shatter. It's like it's like a disease in
the heart where you're just you You never feel satisfied.
But that's about dunya this if depois is the if they are the
prophets Allah is set him said Allah
O Allah Allah Allah Allah Nene but if the Adi Lekha will add to
Kearney but is still an anchor, O Allah impoverished me by making me
in enrich me by making me impoverished before you
and don't impoverished me by making me feel independent of you.
That's real fucker and that's why I Love Hina Hina nefs el Hina Hina
NAS which means if Tikar it Allah that you're content with what
Allah gives you that's why
when when Musa is Sudan he said that he was faqeer min Hayden
appear from his Lord
mean Hayden appear to be impoverished. That's fucker
iftekhar And then Bolga. In a rewire orba you have to have
Buddha is enough to get you somewhere. This is why Imam Shafi
said Lo
Lo que live to Shara Abbas la Mata nm to Masada. If I had to worry
about how much onions costs, I would have never learned anything.
And that's why it's a great gift to feel
economically free from concern why you study it's a great gift. If
you don't use that gift. It's a tragedy.
And in the Rebbe Horbach means to be a way to leave your home
because one of the things that will bring you down in your
studies is family and friends.
His family and friends if you if you
are always engaged and you can socialize, but the time will
dissipate. And then you'll find out your four years are over. And
what have you learned? What did you gain?
And that's why it's important to use that time. It's good to have
more data and more data, sir.
To be with people to study, but if you look, what if you look how
they study in Seuss, or in Mauritania, and these places,
they're studying constantly, and partly because a lot of it is
memorizing because this culture doesn't have any consideration for
memory and yet memory the word data sin Arabic that us to Allah
Alma, I studied knowledge, it means of a to Adhara hope, like
what remains data set that Dr. You know, data Saturday or when you
visit a place where people used to live, that what remains are the
dodos like it's just leftovers, it's the remnants. So knowledge is
what remains the darkness, because there's a lot of knowledge given
to you. But what do you actually get out of that knowledge? You can
read the elfia have even Maalik, the whole thing, but what remains
is what data sets that's what remains and hopefully the most
important things remain.
Because knowledge Lenten, Allah Inma
you'll you'll never achieve all of knowledge, Lau Hala Alpha center.
Even if you have 1000 years you won't gain all the knowledge so
that's very important. And then he says, Well soccer to STAT and I
will tell Tina was telling teachers some knowledge is you can
learn if you're if you're educated and much of learning is
autodidactic. That is a fact. Much of learning comes from books and
from what you study and read and all that but you have to have the
tools to study if you don't have the tools to study and then there
are certain though loom that are very difficult that you have to
have a teacher with. That's why I'll walk you on a tour he said
Yolanda O'Meara and that could have attacked the Alfa feminine
via Dracula alumi well, they are the real Jehovah and no one will
not hire a tablet for him he is or on television or movie or at chef
and the answer author Mr. Creamy will tell tell you some more I
like Tesira Abell lemon toma Hakimi. He's saying, you know, the
the naive person thinks that books are enough. And he doesn't know
that in those and he thinks his intellect is going to guide him in
the books. And he doesn't know that in those books are how I'm
ill the
obscure things, obfuscations difficulties,
that you need a scholar to open them that they're the keys to
knowledge.
So that's very important to have good teachers.
And in the end of the day, like even Abby Gemma said to him over
Abdullah Abdullah, they have no hedge. When he asked to study from
him, he said,
he said, I'll only sit with you under one condition. He said we're
both students and Allah is our teacher.
This is another level
because the Prophet said Yo como Jabbar Barthelona review aware of
tyrannical scholars.
Humility is one of the most important qualities of a scholar.
So what does that mean for students of knowledge? If you're
only a student of knowledge, like we are, we're students of
knowledge. All of us,
in fact, lays out who I had dunya tell him or her to Paulo alum to
PHIPA hayleigh. One of you will continue to learn until he says I
know and then he becomes ignorant.
Well to lose a man and that's the last of the six a lot of time.
May Allah give us the time that we need to learn what we need to
learn and act on that knowledge. When I am an amateur, the Madama
OData hola hola. Edma madam Yaga whoever acts according to his
knowledge,
Allah will give him knowledge that he did not know Alhamdulillah our
portofolio that will stop federal Nollywood I can recite I'm
assuming for stop funeral in hola for Rahim.
Al Hamdulillah was Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah Juana it was
the woman while and hamdulillah these are hot days, we're not
always Shahara the fire is much harder. We ask Allah Subhana Allah
insha Allah to make it easy for our brothers and sisters in
Palestine.
There's a lot of suffering that's been going on and the volume, the
clear volume, the volume that even people that were blinded before
can now see
is is
it can't it can't continue. Indefinitely allow brings an end
to a loan by its very nature. And Allah subhanaw taala Anna widow
Vida hain. We believe in Allah and we believe that this dunya is a
temporal thing.
doesn't ask forever the people that are gone from this conflict
are in Charlaine a much better place and, and then the people all
the people that have been left behind May Allah make it easy for
them may Allah Subhana Allah give us whatever capacities we have to
do something there are a lot of places right now in the Muslim
world where we have more refugees than any other community on the
planet for whatever reasons you know the afflictions of this time
are amazing for this OMA the Prophet SAW I said him said that
in the material metal Martoma drill that will have it dunya
patter will fit in with Zelizer. My OMA is a OMA that the ROM of
Allah is on it. He said, Whatever punishment they get, they get it
in this world. So when you when you understand that you might see
these things in a different perspective, because the sins of
our OMA are great. You know, people get upset if you bring
these up. If you manage, you know, it's Don't get angry at the
doctor, if he tells you you're not feeling well, because you have
diabetes, or you're eating too much sugar.
No, don't get angry at the doctor if he tells you you're fat and you
need to lose some weight.
You know? And if the scholars aren't doctors, and what are they
they're supposed to be healers of the society they don't, they
shouldn't be telling people what they want to hear. They should be
telling people what they need to hear.
So it's but it's important that we remember these people that are
doing and also to study the issue. Like to understand it.
So many of our community they don't know anything about they
don't know the history. They How do you defend something if you
don't have knowledge, to defend it?
Just to study it to learn it to learn these issues this important.
May Allah make it easy? Inshallah, may Allah Subhana Allah Allah
forgive us, all of our sins, all of our shortcomings. All of our
stupidities, all of our
inabilities in this time the prophets I sent him said that in
these latter days the believers would be like alleges know that
helpless people when moment
Oh, you federal what have word Allah minimalna by force equal in
hire.
A strong believer is better and more beloved to Allah than a weak
believer, but in both is good. So even if we're weak, we have to ask
inshallah for that good. But that good comes from learning and
study. And I want to finish this
last thing about this. And this, particularly for the students that
are coming in this incoming class, use your time people have come
through this program, and at the end of the program, you know, they
got through the program, but not always, did they take advantage of
what was here. So that's up to you. There's nobody in here that
doesn't have those six things, everybody here, you all have their
car. There's nobody here you couldn't have gotten into the
program if you didn't have some level of the car. And the car is
something grows also. In fact, in Arabic, the Malecki the horse
here, the Arab say Jaren with a key atherina. You know, the, the
Maliki horse is seven years old. So that's when they're the
strongest at five, they have all their teeth. At seven. They're the
strongest they race better than any horses. So the race of the
Molech yet, they're the best one so the car grows. And that's why
an old person they say that Karasu, the Ania Sena phenomena
their cat or horse from minute to Jarel. Like from from so much life
experience, they've become intelligent.
So just recognize that you'll have full health inshallah we'll give
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