Mirza Yawar Baig – Goals of learning #1

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The importance of learning and practicing Islam for personal and professional growth is emphasized. Visits to the holy city of Jerusalem are encouraged, and individuals should study and understand the Bible to gain confidence and knowledge. Visits to the holy city of Jerusalem are encouraged, and individuals should study and understand the Bible to gain confidence and knowledge. Visits to the holy city of Jerusalem are encouraged, and individuals should study and understand the Bible to improve their understanding of the title. Visits to the holy city of Jerusalem are encouraged, and individuals should read and practice the Quran every year to improve their chances of memorization. Visits to the holy city of Jerusalem are encouraged, and individuals should stay close from what doesn't please them and focus on the path of witnessing.

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			In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most
		
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			Merciful.
		
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			All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
		
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			the worlds.
		
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			And peace and blessings be upon the messengers
		
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			and prophets.
		
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			Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
		
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			Peace and blessings be upon him and his
		
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			family and companions.
		
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			My brothers and sisters, Alhamdulillah, I always thank
		
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			Allah a great deal for the fact that
		
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			there is a lot of interest, especially among
		
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			the younger generation, among the youth in Islam.
		
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			And that is something which I hugely appreciate
		
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			and I thank Allah for.
		
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			There was a time when this was not
		
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			the case and Alhamdulillah, we seem to have
		
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			broken that.
		
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			So lots of discussions and questions and haraqas
		
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			and people teaching and learning.
		
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			That's the upside.
		
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			The downside of this is that in this
		
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			eagerness to learn and eagerness to be doing
		
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			something, very often the people involved, they lose
		
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			track of the methodology of learning.
		
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			They lose track of their actual goals of
		
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			learning.
		
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			And as a result, they fall into the
		
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			trap of shaitan and these discussions and haraqas
		
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			and so on end up with people getting
		
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			irritated with each other and fighting each other
		
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			and so on.
		
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			And the chief reason for that is because
		
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			there is this, quite understandable, but there is
		
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			this fascination for fiqh, for different masail of
		
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			fiqh.
		
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			So now this is a terrible thing because
		
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			it's something that is dangerous because fiqh is
		
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			a speciality and it is a speciality that
		
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			even to get there, you have to have
		
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			a whole lot of other things that you
		
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			should know before you approach fiqh.
		
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			And then you have to study the usool
		
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			and the rules of fiqh.
		
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			And only then can you get into understanding
		
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			fiqh.
		
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			So fiqh is not something that you just
		
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			pick up a book and you read through
		
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			it and you find one hadith and you
		
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			say, well, this is what the ruling is.
		
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			This is what happens, unfortunately.
		
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			And that's why I want to talk about
		
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			that.
		
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			So many times people will write to me,
		
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			send messages or call, and they will say,
		
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			I was discussing this matter and what is
		
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			the ruling on it, which is halal or
		
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			haraam.
		
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			And many times or almost all the time,
		
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			the matters that they are talking about are
		
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			what we call in the style of the
		
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			sharia, the language of the law, furway masaya,
		
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			which is tertiary.
		
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			Things which are, I won't say unimportant because
		
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			they are important, but they are like secondary
		
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			importance, tertiary importance.
		
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			They are not things that will send you
		
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			to Jahannam or Jannah.
		
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			Thanks to the Internet.
		
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			May Allah have mercy on us and on
		
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			the Internet.
		
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			The fact of making things easy also opens
		
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			the door for falling into problems because things
		
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			become so easy that you lose the vaqar
		
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			of that thing.
		
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			You lose the greatness of the thing.
		
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			You lose the respect for the thing.
		
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			On a side note, that's why Rasulullah said
		
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			don't make Umrah again and again.
		
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			Let the magnificence and the nobility, the
		
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			holiness of the experience.
		
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			Enjoy that.
		
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			Let that be with you.
		
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			Don't make it into a routine thing that
		
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			I normally pray Asr in Masjid al-Haram.
		
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			So I go there and make Umrah.
		
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			I just pray Masjid in Asr.
		
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			Please go and pray Asr every day.
		
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			No problem.
		
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			But don't make Umrah every day.
		
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			Don't make Umrah again and again and again
		
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			because it can take away the awe of
		
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			the experience, which is such a beautiful thing.
		
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			To come back to my subject here.
		
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			So when people get into this issue of
		
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			just referring from here and there and the
		
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			Internet and what not, they get a lot
		
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			of material.
		
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			No doubt about that.
		
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			But most people who are not trained in
		
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			the Islamic Sharia, in the Islamic methodology of
		
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			teaching and learning do not know what to
		
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			do with the material that they see.
		
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			So when they see something, they say this
		
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			is what should be done and many of
		
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			them get very rigid about it.
		
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			And they say this has to be done.
		
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			This is something which is compulsory.
		
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			They get into that kind of a mental
		
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			framework with that.
		
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			Whereas it might not be.
		
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			It might be something in which there is
		
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			a lot of flexibility.
		
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			Yes, there is a ruling, but it is
		
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			not necessarily something which is so strong.
		
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			Or vice versa, it may seem to be
		
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			something which is not so serious, but it
		
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			might be very serious.
		
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			Now if you understand the methodology of it,
		
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			then you will not be deceived.
		
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			You will not be confused.
		
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			But if you don't know that, then there
		
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			is a chance.
		
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			So what I tell people is be clear
		
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			about your goals of learning and have benchmarks
		
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			for them.
		
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			So the first thing is learn about Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			That's the first and foremost thing.
		
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			Because our religion is based on the worship
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala alone and
		
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			therefore you cannot worship somebody you don't know.
		
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			So learn about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Memorize Quran.
		
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			Ask yourself, how much Quran do I know?
		
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			How many surahs?
		
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			Then benchmark yourself and say, how much did
		
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			I know same date last year?
		
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			Is there a difference between how much I
		
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			knew same date last year and how much
		
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			I know today?
		
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			Now if there is no difference, then there
		
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			is a problem.
		
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			So say, how can I increase my knowledge
		
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			of memorization, knowledge of the Quran?
		
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			I'm talking about just memorization, first of all.
		
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			So memorize.
		
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			Now once you are doing that and there
		
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			is some progress, even if you are memorizing
		
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			a little bit every year or every month,
		
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			that's good enough, alhamdulillah.
		
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			But try to ensure that you continue on
		
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			that journey of memorization.
		
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			Make the niyyah and say, Allah, I want
		
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			to become a hafiz of the Quran.
		
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			I want to memorize the entire Quran.
		
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			And start and make sure you are learning
		
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			something, no matter how little it is, even
		
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			if it is one ayah.
		
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			But make sure you are doing that, because
		
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			the beauty of that is that even if
		
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			in that journey you die, then Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala inshallah will resurrect you and
		
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			me, if I make the same niyyah, with
		
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			the hufas, with the people who actually memorized
		
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			the entire Quran.
		
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			So this is the barakah of the mercy
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that even
		
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			though I did not reach my goal of
		
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			memorizing the entire Quran, because I had that
		
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			niyyah, I had that intention, and I made
		
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			the effort, even though my effort was not
		
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			completed, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give
		
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			me, inshallah, the reward of having made the
		
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			effort as if I succeeded in my goal.
		
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			So that is very important.
		
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			Memorize the Quran and say, how much do
		
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			I know now?
		
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			Start from there, how much do I know
		
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			now?
		
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			And then say, how much did I know
		
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			last year?
		
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			Is there a difference?
		
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			If there is no difference, then start memorizing
		
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			and increasing that every year.
		
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			How much more this year?
		
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			Right?
		
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			Number one.
		
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			Number two is, then you say, understanding the
		
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			Quran.
		
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			So it's not only a question of memorizing.
		
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			You say, am I reading the meaning of
		
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			the Quran?
		
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			First of all, start just with reading the
		
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			meaning, the translation of the Quran, if you
		
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			don't know Arabic.
		
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			And even though people know Arabic, the Quranic
		
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			Arabic is not easy.
		
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			Quranic Arabic is classical Arabic.
		
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			It has very beautiful nuances and so on
		
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			in it.
		
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			It's not so simple to understand.
		
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			So read the meaning of what you are
		
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			memorizing.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So do that.
		
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			And there again, spend some time in that.
		
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			Then say, how much more do I...
		
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			I'm reading the translation.
		
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			How well do I understand that?
		
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			Then try and read the tafsir of it
		
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			and the exegesis of it.
		
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			So that's elaborating on the translation.
		
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			And say, well, in this tafsir, how much
		
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			more do I know now?
		
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			So, for example, you are reading Surah Al
		
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			-Fatiha.
		
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			You say, Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.
		
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			In the name of Allah, Most Beneficent, Most
		
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			Merciful.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen.
		
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			All praise and all thanks be to Allah,
		
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			Who is the Rabbil Alameen, the Creator, the
		
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			Sustainer, the Protector, the Maintainer of the entire
		
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			universe.
		
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			He is the Most Merciful, the Most Beneficent,
		
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			the Most Merciful.
		
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			He is the Owner of the Day of
		
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			Judgment.
		
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			He is the King of the Day of
		
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			Judgment.
		
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			The Day of Judgment, Allah is the Day
		
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			when we will be presented before Allah.
		
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			I worship only You.
		
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			We worship only You.
		
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			And we ask help only from You.
		
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			And then, Hidrah, Salatul Mustaqeem.
		
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			O Allah, guide us to the path of
		
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			those, a path of steadfastness, a path of
		
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			righteousness, to the straight path.
		
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			The path of those who You blessed, who
		
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			received Your ni'mah, Your blessings, Your gifts.
		
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			غَيْرِ الْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا الضَّالِّينَ Not the path
		
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			of those who incurred Your wrath, because of
		
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			their actions, and who were also not the
		
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			path of those who went astray.
		
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			Maybe they had a good intention, but they
		
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			did wrong things and they went astray.
		
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			So now you memorize Surah Al-Fatiha.
		
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			And after memorizing Surah Al-Fatiha, you have
		
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			now read the translation of Surah Al-Fatiha.
		
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			Now go into the tafsir of Surah Al
		
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			-Fatiha.
		
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			And say, what is it that Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala, when I say, Bismillahir Rahmanir
		
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			Rahim, what is the kaifiyat on me?
		
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			What is my heart saying?
		
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			How does it feel to take the name
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in His
		
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			glory and majesty?
		
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			And when I say that, how do I
		
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			feel and what not?
		
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			I mean, this is the thing.
		
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			The thing is, to spend time with the
		
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			Kalam of Allah, to spend time with the
		
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			Quran, to spend time with the Kalam of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, so do that.
		
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			To make sure that you are doing that,
		
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			the tarjuma and the tafsir.
		
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			Now once you do that, then you, to
		
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			whatever you memorized, to do that, memorize it.
		
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			And once you've done that, then you go
		
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			to the next stage of whatever you are
		
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			memorizing.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Jalla Jalaluhu,
		
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			to help us to be focused correctly and
		
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			to do what pleases Him and to stay
		
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			far away from what does not please Him.
		
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			We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			be with us and for us and to
		
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			enable us to live a life where it
		
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			is a means of khair and barakah for
		
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			us in this dunya wal akhirah.
		
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			May Allah's peace, mercy, and blessings be upon
		
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			the Prophet, his family and companions.
		
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			May Allah's peace, mercy, and blessings be upon
		
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			you.