Mansoor Danish – Orientation

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la la la de la sharika wash Mohammed Abu rasuluh I'm about to fight in the Federal District of La
we're headed headed in hamedan sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was Chevelle Morimoto says to her Baku
llamada setting with our local Aveda in Delilah popoola the Latina brothers and sisters in faith
Assalamu alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu I welcome you all to the fourth session of Islamic
online universities. new semester, new semesters began and hamdulillah you're already into your
		

			second or third week of acquiring knowledge of the deen acquiring knowledge, which is going to help
you both in this life and insha Allah in the next life as well. Insha Allah in today's session of
mine, I'm here to discuss about the method that you can adopt in your learning and Islamic online
university. So what I'm going to do is I'm not going to make it too long, I'm going to make it too
short, inshallah. Well, not really too short, but I'm just gonna try to not make it too long. In
order to ensure inshallah, that you are able to take back the message, and you're able to get some
kind of an order and discipline in your learning and Islamic online university. Now the first thing
		

			which I wish to let you know, is that the knowledge that you're going to acquire an IOU is built on
three pillars. And these are the three pillars that I'm discussing today. The first pillar is the
academic aspect. The second pillar is the aspect of your worship your relationship with Allah
subhanho wa Taala. And the third aspect is your Allah your adapt that you display when you are
studying at Islamic online university. So let us begin with the academic aspect. As far as the
academic aspect is concerned, you're learning to use concern, you must become familiar with the
system that is being used. We're not here to interact in a classroom environment where there are 60
		

			students sitting and the instructor is there and then you can raise your hand and ask a question. We
don't have that live classroom internet interaction. This is not a resident University, but rather
it's an online university. So what we have done in order to ensure that your education is complete
and your knowledge is
		

			complete, we have introduced a video lecture. So for every course, we have an instructor who has
recorded the video like we do sessions, there are 30 modules on an average with any course and every
module is a duration of 50 to 60 minutes on an average. What you as a student needs to do is
firstly, become familiar with the syllabus of the course that you have taken. So there is already a
syllabus file, and the syllabus file breaks down as to what content is being covered in each module.
Not only that, the syllabus file also tells you what is the relevant material, which you need to
refer to for a particular module, and from which page to which page you need to study. So not so we
		

			are already doing hand holding sessions here. And in fact, this is also a part of the hand holding
session. That is the orientation session. So the syllabus file is the first step of your candidate
knowledge you must become familiar with the course that you're doing, you must have a knowledge of
the course objective, you must know what will be your end result of taking up this course, after
having done that, this next step is to go through the video lecture of a particular module. So when
you start off with module one, module, one may have three parts to
		

			to the video session. So module one, A, B, and C respectively. Go through the video lectures. And
please make sure that you make notes as you're listening to the lecture to the instructor the way
you would have done if you were sitting in a classroom environment. Generally students just listen
to it or they put on the audio of the lecture. And they keep on fidgeting with their mobiles playing
with the Facebook tabs and watching the social network and programs and urine they're interacting
with family members on the left and right while the video is running, the audio is running and at
the end of this one our you feel that you have accomplished something though in reality you have not
		

			accomplished much. So what I tell you is when you sit down for your session, make sure your mobile
phone isn't switched off mode or in silent mode. It does not disturb you for that one as though you
are in an invert university environment. So that is a dedicated time for your studies.
		

			Having gone through the video lectures and having need your notes, as I mentioned to you, you're
running notes, you know the shorthand notes, quickly make those notes, inshallah, and have separate
books kept for each of the courses. So for fic 101, you have a separate book, separate notebook and
you make your running hand notes in sha Allah. Having done that, you have already finished a study
of a module, what you have to do is go through the live session schedule, there is a live session
schedule.
		

			Old courses do not have weekly live session.
		

			But rather, there are pre recorded live sessions which have already been uploaded. When you go to
the live session schedule, you will get to know how many modules have been covered in each live
session. So when you see live session one, you see that it covers Module One, two, and three
respectively. For example, that should give you an idea that after the third module, I will be able
to revise through all my three modules. So what you do instead is study module one and module two
and Module Three. Having done that, at the end of module three, you will find a link to the pre
recorded live session, which covers the discussion on these three modules. Go through that
		

			discussion. Module One, two, and three, you've studied through the videos. Now you go to the live
sessions for these courses. Having gone through the live session of these courses, You are now ready
to quickly run through the study material, the textbook, just go through the study material, read
through it once or do skim reading. Skim reading is where you don't read line by line, but you just
give it a look around you just look through it and inshallah you get a fair idea as to what the
study material was talking about. You already have the knowledge of what the instructor spoke in the
video lecture. You already had a summarization of the video lecture. And you've already gone through
		

			the textbook and the materials, you're now set to appear for the module one examination, sit, give
the module one exam, give them on YouTube, give them module three and then come back and start
studying again with your module four. This is how you should continue as far as your kaktovik
learning is concerned and insha Allah, if you go through the guide, which has been given in the
student support the FAQs, you will get a good idea about how to you know put this in perspective.
		

			Naturally, as you are studying, you will keep coming up with different issues and queries, it's
possible that things may not be clear to you, in spite of the video lecture, in spite of good
listening to a pre recorded live session. It's not the end of the world for you. Immediately, you
can raise this question in the student forums which are there, we have asked the teacher forum where
you can raise the question and the teacher will get back to you. Or you can raise it up in the
student discussion forum where the students can share their knowledge with you. And I invite each
one of you He is when you see something up on the student discussion forum share knowledge, you
		

			don't have to wait for the teacher to respond to a student in a student forum. It's a forum for you
people to discuss and interact with one another. I find many students sharing on the student
discussion forum. Please send me your number on WhatsApp and I have created a study group.
		

			Why? What is the need of a study group and I'll use already given you a superb platform, a student
discussion forum platform where for each subject or each team that you wish to discuss, you can
create a subject and start a discussion. Not like a WhatsApp, where you just keep on discussing from
head to toe anything. No control. No, here Masha Allah we have given you a discussion forum to
please refrain. Firstly, from sharing your mobile numbers and wasting your time creating groups on
WhatsApp. It's absolutely needless not required. Do it in the discussion forum. We are giving you a
lovely format hamdulillah. Use that use the forums, send emails to the teachers if you don't wish to
		

			ask the question to the teacher in the forum, you can send a personal email to the teacher the
contact numbers are already uploaded with the post details.
		

			So that as far as your method of learning and the IOU is concerned, from the academic aspect, the
second aspect is the aspect of ibadah worship. My dear brothers and sisters in faith. We must
sincerely seek repentance from Allah for our sins. As we acquire knowledge of the deen we must
continuously strive to seek repentance for the sins that we have done for every son of an Adam has a
share of sin, but the best of his he he Who comes back to Allah and seeks repentance for his sins.
As we acquire the knowledge of the deen. We must make sure that we humble ourselves before the
creator before our Lord before our wrap up. Not only that, you must increase the zip code of Allah
		

			subhanho wa Taala you must take every possible step to please Allah because it is only Allah who can
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			Baraka in the knowledge that you again, not only that, my dear brothers and sisters in Islam, you
must make the art to Allah to make this knowledge beneficial. Without supplicating to Allah, you
can't expect miracles to happen. Now of course miracles do happen by Allah's Will and permission,
but you must make the art to Allah and tell him what you want from Allah. When you are acquiring the
knowledge you must make dua to Allah, Allah makes it beneficial. Look, you might be spending our
studying at IO U. But if you don't make the art to Allah, and if Allah doesn't put Baraka in your
knowledge, that knowledge becomes of no help on the Day of Judgment, it may benefit you in this
		

			life, but in the day of reckoning, in the day when we shall become accountable, this knowledge will
not be of any help. However, my dear brothers and sisters, the good news is that if Allah puts
Baraka in this knowledge, he makes it benefit, he makes it beneficial, and only he has the power to
make this knowledge beneficial, then this knowledge can become a source for you and me to enter
gender.
		

			The ultimate destination, the place of final rest.
		

			So my dear brothers and sisters, making dua to Allah subhanho wa Taala, increasing the seeker and
seeking forgiveness becomes the second most important pillar of your learning at Islamic online
university. And the last and the most important pillar, my dear brothers and sisters is your
mannerisms, your follow up and your adapt, in fact, Subhanallah we have a course on Aflac and
adapted Islamic online university. For the students of Islamic Studies, they will know what I'm
talking on. But of course, many of you are new here, or most of you are new here and the orientation
session, you might very soon get accustomed to it and come to know about this course. What is the
		

			purpose of manners? Look, students of knowledge must display exemplary quality. And one of the most
exemplary quality that student knowledge has is humility when he talks to his teacher, humility when
he talks to the back office humility when he interacts with anyone at IOU whether it is the
teachers, whether it is the back office, whether it is the it or whether it is your fellow students
with whom you're interacting, you may have differences in opinion, and Abdullah may have a
difference in opinion with Abdul Rahman and Fatima may differ with Ayesha but both of them should
discuss and interact and share opinions with humility and with respect for one another. You look
		

			humility comes when I respect the person and the other end. If I have no respect for the person in
the other hand, I become arrogant. I lack humility. So my dear brothers and sisters in Islam, please
interact with humility and IOU. When you interact with your teachers. When you email your teachers,
through the forums, through the emails, please make sure that you interact with humility, you
maintain the rules you maintain the regulations you maintain the discipline you maintain the order
which has been set out the rules that has been set out. Often we come across students who are not
happy with the marks that they get in the assignments and they tend to reflect it through males
		

			stinking males to the teachers literally a stinker mean you know in corporate world they say a
stinker male is a male which lacks politeness, curtsy, it's a rude male and some handle law. Some of
you might have brothers and sisters end up doing that with your teachers. However, this is not how
students of knowledge interact with people who are giving whom Allah has selected, whom Allah has
selected to be your teachers. This is how not how we interact, you may have knowledge you may have
experienced, you may have age by your side. But the reality is that I owe you Allah has selected a
teacher for you, a teacher, start a shift for you, and you must know how to interact with that
		

			shift.
		

			So my dear brothers and sisters in this now, I don't want to take much more of your time, you are
going to see a lot more of me in the university. inshallah, I just leave you once again, with a
summarization of what I've shared with you, I have shared with you the method of learning an IOU and
I've tried to simplify it into three parts. The first is the academy path and I have told you how
you can go about your knowledge, acquiring of your knowledge inshallah. And
		

			the second aspect which I have shared with you is your, your ibadah your worship with a law, your
relationship with Allah make your relationship strong with a lot as you acquire this knowledge in
sha Allah. And lastly, the third and the most important pillar is your manners, your morals, your
etiquette of interacting with every stakeholder an IOU whether it is the teachers, whether it is
your fellow students, whether it is somebody in the back office, whether it is through the official
Facebook page of ours
		

			you interact with the administrator, anybody whom you interact with, you must be humble in your
interaction. You must have courtesy and politeness when you interact with one another.
		

			With that I wish to leave you my dear brothers and sisters, and I wish and I wish you all the best.
As you acquire the knowledge of this Deen we make the audit Allah subhanho wa Taala makes this
knowledge beneficial for each one of us to kind of go along or be handed a shotgun dialogue Lantus,
the farofa were to boo la wa Salaam Alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh