Mirza Yawar Baig – Teaching and learning #2

			Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam, our notion of an MBO
evil Musa read. Muhammad Rasul Allah is Allah Allah Allah He was early he was over Salam just live
in Cathedral cathedral for Movado
		

			sisters.
		

			To complete the point that I was making yesterday with respect to the importance of treating
knowledge,
		

			as knowledge,
		

			understanding the importance of knowledge.
		

			Think about this. If you have if you find a jewel, if you find a shiny rock,
		

			it might be the coin or
		

			won't be the actual Kohinoor because it is sitting in the crown of the King of England, but
		

			it could be a very, very valuable
		

			diamond, or emerald.
		

			But what do you need to do to find out
		

			you need to go to a jeweler, you need to go to somebody who understands jewelry, understand jewels,
understand gemstones.
		

			And they will then be able to put a price on it and say this is what this thing is worth.
		

			Without going to that jeweler,
		

			even though you possess the thing itself, it's in your pocket. It's of no use to you.
		

			You don't know its value, and so you can't do anything with it.
		

			And the same thing applies to knowledge.
		

			Think about the three word which I introduced you yesterday information which is a bunch of data.
		

			Each one in itself might be useful. But we don't know that.
		

			That information when it is put together organized in a particular context becomes what we call
knowledge.
		

			And this knowledge is what gets recorded and put into books.
		

			But even that is not enough. Because
		

			that knowledge then must go through a third process.
		

			And that process is where that knowledge is
		

			practice, digested, understood, from an experiential perspective. And then that learning is
conceptualized and expressed in a teachable form conceptualized and organized in a digital form.
That whole process is what results in what we call wisdom.
		

			And that is the reason why Allah subhanaw taala settled with our Salem year to Allah MIT, where he
was a key him by you Ali Mohammed Al Kitab al hikma
		

			tell them inform them of the of the way that you have received, inform the of the revelation. And
after you inform them, then purify them, get them ready to receive it and then teach it to them. Put
that revelation in the context of what love what life is, and then share with them your
understanding of that revelation, which is hikma.
		

			And that is why nobody can claim to understand the Quran without the agency of the Rasul Allah He
set up.
		

			Without the agency of the Rasul without the help of the Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam without
personas are seldom
		

			being the
		

			the interim between the message and the recipient of the message, the message will not make any
sense.
		

			My brother and sisters it was this understanding
		

			of the importance of the teacher
		

			that lead gen din Rumi Rahmatullah Ali, Maulana Rumi route 32 when he met and when he was in the
Kenworth, and he was in the company of his chefs Shams tabraiz router larae.
		

			He said about that encounter, he said it less but so but they only better just satisfy that barrier.
He said, a second Lucha, Lucha
		

			in the company, of
		

			a person who understands and knows Allah subhanaw taala, one of the earlier of Allah
		

			insha Allah. He says that a second
		

			in that community not just sitting there, meaning and learning from them, learning from them. He
says one second learning from them is better than 100 years of sincere a bad.
		

			Now this does not mean the discounting since everybody we're just saying that just worshiping
hamdulillah it is good and worshiping is essential worshiping will give us Jana Insha Allah, but to
really come close to Allah subhanho wa Taala you need the wisdom of the Rasul Allah Islam.
		

			This is what this is what led somebody like jello din Rumi, who was at the peak of his profession.
He was a professor, he is a person who has written many books and so on it that that knowledge and
that thirst took him to somebody who had wisdom.
		

			This is what
		

			the I mentioned to you yesterday. This is the story of Musa Ali Salaam and federalism. Now Musa is
Allah Allah subhanho wa Taala sent Musa alayhis salam together, even though Musa Hassan was the
Rasul because there was an OB, Yet Allah subhanaw taala sent Busara Salam took his or because he has
to Allah Samantha wants to emphasize the importance in the rank of a teacher. It's not the when the
teacher is a teacher, it doesn't matter what other
		

			status he has, or doesn't have, that the status of the teacher supersedes everything else.
		

			And there are many such instances of great scholars going to others to learn Imam Muhammad, Muhammad
Ali,
		

			you he had he also used to do this he used to go to,
		

			to to other scholars in at that time, and he would sit with them and he would
		

			he would learn from them.
		

			How they were awesome. Learn from chakra kalburgi Rahmatullah Ali, and so on and so forth. Now, the
point I'm making here is that it's very important for us today. Because we live in a in a world and
especially in this country that says, we live in a country where arrogance is that is the name of
the game. Arrogance is the name of the game, people feel that they need nothing from anybody that is
the most dumb, the most stupid thing that you can ever imagine. If you feel that you are self
sufficient, that means you're you're so ignorant, that you don't even know what you need. So please
let us get out of this self deception, which is from shaitan. And understand that we need to learn
		

			there's a famous story of this professor who went to,
		

			to a chef to learn and he asked him he said, Please make me your disciple yours, your student. The
chef took him to, there was a well in this courtyard, he took him to the well he took a jar, empty
jar with him. And he started filling this jar in draw, he was drawing water out of the well and
pouring into the jar. And the jar filled up and he kept pouring water they just overflowed and he
kept pouring water it all flowed some more. And this professor couldn't take it anymore. He says
while I said this thing cannot hold anything more, it's failed.
		

			And the SEC said that's your situation. He said, You have come to me with your cell filled with all
that you know, and you want to come and sit here and ask me things when you are then comparing it to
whatever is in your head. And you are not sitting here to learn you're sitting here to judge me. So
empty yourself before you come.
		

			Now this does not mean that we have to discount ourselves and say I'm worth nothing. No, it is to
put it in perspective and say what I have is knowledge what I do not have is wisdom and what I need
is wisdom and wisdom does not come from books. That is why Dr. Yakko masala May Allah bless him made
this beautiful statement he said we write we meaning Muslims, Muslims call us or we write books to
be taught. We do not write books to be read. And that's a beautiful statement. Because the Quran Al
Karim that's what Allah subhanaw taala as I mentioned yesterday, central Surah Salah with the Quran
and he did not send the Quran to be read he sent the Quran to be taught. He sent the Quran for us to
		

			be it for us to learn it, not just read it. And this is our problem among many other problems that
we just read.
		

			It's very important for us to have this humility and this humbleness, to go to the teacher in a
state of need. understand and accept that it is my need to learn it's not the teachers need to teach
the teachers many students or teachers don't have teach you. The teacher can teach anybody is mine
need to learn that's why Musa alayhis salam was sent to cleanser Elisa when he had to walk and he
didn't walk for a couple of days before he got to him.
		

			It is a need of the learner and the learner was go there as a need you
		

			Go there, as a patient goes to a doctor, it is my pain, I must get out of this pain, I want relief
from this pain, I need the medicine, the doctor does not need to give the medicine I need the
medicine and I am without the medicine, I will die the doctor will not die. Right? It is my need. It
is this sense of, of,
		

			of being, you know, in need of this.
		

			Or saying that I'm attached. I am the one who is destitute and I need this thing. We must go to the
teachers with that. And it begins therefore with the other the other way of learning please
understand this today in this way we live in a world where especially in this country, and I'm not
you know just sort of bashing this country with the amount of of lack of other the amount of the
Absolute, you know, it is disgusting. It's so bad. I mean, I I think to myself, what happens to
people, I mean, they come from countries which are known for the other and there is children here
who are like animals, right? very shameful. You don't even they don't even have the courtesy of how
		

			to give salam how to make Salah how to sit in a in a halacha how to sit in the depths of the Quran,
they will sit there and their legs are extended feet pointed to the Qibla feet pointed pointed at
the face of the of the of the teacher in that alignment. And they don't see anything wrong with that
right. And if somebody objects we say no, no, no. So you should be gentle with the kids I mean law
whatever.
		

			Seriously, yet real people I mean, if you if you want to find find me one situation. Now the biller
of where any cyber is that the way your kids and we use it in America, find me one instance where
does it start like that before us was?
		

			What Why do we have Why do we have the zero gives us we have the zero to learn from it. To practice
that in our lives. Not just to tell stories dissolve I used to sit like this. They used to do like
they said and then what do we do we do the opposite of that.
		

			It begins with other way other Benassi bad abundancy The one who either has the future the one who
doesn't the other has no future. Very, very important. begins with the other of learning said that
the wheel said the way you use you look at the teacher with complete concentration not chatting with
your video. You know, friend, they're not playing with your phone. I mean, it is the ideal is one
away may Allah have mercy on me. I mean, really, if we have to ask Allah subhanaw taala to forgive
us and to enable us to learn this beautiful Deen that he sent us send no sauce or celebrate our
brothers sisters very important for us. Let us understand this. The importance of teachers, the
		

			importance of elders SubhanAllah. We have elders in our own families, we have our parents, our
grandparents, do you take time to sit with them? Do you listen to them? Do you understand them? It
is very important for us to be connected to our history. Because we came from somewhere, right?
Today we are here because of somebody else we are standing on other people's shoulders. Who are
those people? What did they face? We have a situation today when where when parents talk to
children. Children say Yeah, well, that was that country? How does it apply? To me? It's not a
question of that country of this country. It's a question of what is the lesson you're taking from
		

			here.
		

			If your parent talked to parents talk to you about the kinds of deprivation the kind of lack of
resources they live with, the lesson you take away from is that resources do not define define
success.
		

			Success is defined by what you do with those resources.
		

			But no you you're too dumb to understand that right?
		

			I'm saying this because I'm so I'm so bad with this because these are the kinds of answers that
people give me. May Allah mercy on you, please get us get our act together. Let's stop behaving like
this and learn and stop. You know, don't lose out on the assets that Allah has given you. And the
biggest of those assets are the people in your life or people that people people in our lives and on
those and from those people are the elders. Was anyone early he was
		

			alive.