Nouman Ali Khan – A Valuable Advice To All Students

			I want you to know that there are
		

			there's two mindsets. I mean, you guys have been studying for a while. So I'm just giving you this
observation after 20 or so years of teaching.
		

			There are students whose only concern is growth. That's their only concerned, they just want to
learn this stuff. That's it. Like, their sense of accomplishment doesn't come from completing a
book, or completing a program or completing a curriculum or completing a class or getting a, you
know, I finished or I'm, or, or even Oh, I'm all the way up to speed with the live sessions are not
behind. That's not what gives them a sense of accomplishment, but gives them a sense of
accomplishment as they're growing.
		

			And when you can, when you concern yourself with growth, then you become unconcerned. With
everything extra, you become unconcerned with the growth of others. You become unconcerned with the
pace of the class, you become unconcerned, whether you finish the book or not, the only thing on
your mind is growth. Now, there are other
		

			people, the majority of people in the world whose concern is rank. It's not growth, its rank. Rank
means I want to keep up with other people. I want, I want to start to be proud of me. I want to be
able to see I finished the program, I want to complete this material. It's like they're somewhere in
there. Yes, of course they are. If you ask them flat out, why are you doing this? To learn Arabic?
Yeah, but if you dig a little bit deeper, the mindset is not a growth mindset. It's actually a rank
mindset. Right. And this mindset, permeates in every part of life. There's two kinds of people that
do work, there's people that do work and learn, whether it's learning Arabic, like you guys are, or
		

			they're working, or they're the way they operate in their family, the way they operate in life. They
operate from a mindset of growth, and others, they operate from a mindset of rank, everything they
do, they keep thinking, Where do I rank with this? How do I rank compared to others? What are people
gonna say about this? You know, and it's over, there's always somebody else in the equation and
growth, nobody else is on the equation. Nobody else is in your horizon, just you, but in rank
somebody else? So I'll tell you, for example, I feel personally, there are gaps in my knowledge of
Arabic. Still, there are many gaps in my knowledge of Arabic, and I want to fill those gaps. And I
		

			want to go to a teacher and say, hey, I want to I want to do this curriculum. And they can, they can
say to me, okay, so your intermediate or your advanced, let me do this. And my mindset is No, I
actually really want to grow. So I'm going to start from the beginning, and make sure I didn't miss
anything. This is for myself, I'm not talking about you guys. I want to make sure I didn't miss
anything. Because even if the fundamentals are the basics, maybe there are some things that I've
forgotten, or I need review on. And I don't want to miss any of that. Because the thing that's most
valuable to me in my own pursuit of education is growth. Not Oh, I finished this course. And I also
		

			have this, uh, you know what, when I see people when they introduce themselves, and they tell me
what degrees they got, or where they graduated from, they did this. The mindset, it's not that I'm,
that's really nice that you graduated from somewhere. It's really cool. But the mindset is still up,
I want to show you where I rank, because of what I have accomplished. Right? And this is the kind of
thing even when hiring somebody, I don't want to see Don't Don't tell me what you've done. You
already did it.
		

			Cool. You did it.
		

			Tell me about what you're going to do, and how you're going to keep growing as you do it. Like
that's what I'm interested in hearing. Right. So this is the same mentality I want you to have the
reason I'm bringing this up as as we reach the end of the textbook, I want some students that
		

			have been keeping up they know the material like Saudi are a good candidate, I think shazzy Also
good candidate. Others that have come online are good candidates. Some of you may be struggling with
putting a Basic Joomla together still, some maybe some may be struggling if I if I had you read the
first chapter of the book, one chapter 40, almost. But if I had you read the first chapter, you'd
still have some struggles and mistakes. But you're so hung up on the idea that I want to be with
everyone. And I want to finish that you are now losing sight of your growth mentality. You're no
longer growing. You're just trying to hold on to the rank of being a student that's advancing.
		

			Let go of the growth mindset.
		

			And remind me started with Sid Arkansas. Well, we'll talk about that but inshallah like this is this
is something that I want to see going further. I want to take only the students that are where I am
right now. And they're not holding on to the live sessions because they're not accepting that they
haven't reached that stage of growth yet. It's not a hit on your pride. Not
		

			Having learned something to perfection doesn't make you a lesser person. Struggling with the
material doesn't make you a lesser person, you're not as good at Arabic doesn't make you a lesser
person. Like, I'm reminded of the jazz example, who was very hurt at first that she wasn't doing
well, after putting so much work in and I said, you need to take a breath, calm down, go back and
start at the basics. And she's been doing that, or Hamdulillah, she sends me questions every once in
a while. And from her questions, I can see remarkable growth, growth I didn't see for a long time in
her because she was too concerned with rank, and she didn't realize it. So this is not making you a
		

			bad person. It's just, I want you to become self aware. Are you actually learning in the most
optimal way? And are you are you able to, you know, we can give advice about humility, and
humbleness about not having pride. But this is where pride really kicks in? Am I willing to kick my
own pride in the face and say, Hey, I need to go back to some of the basics. And so the moment you
hear fundamentals or basic basics, I don't know.
		

			How could you, I'm so hurt,
		

			that you won't grow, you will grow. So, you know, develop that mindset, and inshallah you will go
far. And you anything you'll learn, you'll do great. And especially with Arabic, just, I'm telling
you, I've tried to learn things before. And the only time I've really, truly learned something is
when I have growth mindset.
		

			It disappears over time and disappears, there's just, you can concern with finishing, I want you to
finish, I want you to finish with this one. And if you have to go through the whole book, chapter
one to 40, the whole create, don't wait for me to create it as this is your intensive for yourself,
I'm going to read the whole book, you know, like and just, you know, anchor, before I do something
else, do it. For God's sake, do it. And then my recommendation to those of you that have been
keeping up as we approach the end of the book, I'm not going to teach this to you, I'm going to give
this to you to do because I come I'm 1,000,000% certain you are capable of doing this on your own
		

			1,000,000%, the elementary Modern Standard Arabic textbook,
		

			the orange book I referred to before, you should finish it beginning like from page 100. To the end,
I think it's chapters one through 30.
		

			Run through it. You can do all the exercises, you can read all the texts, all the drills, some of
the terminology will be difficult, but it won't be don't depend on me, don't email me, what does
this mean? What does this mean? Look it up, become independent. And you can, you can crush that
textbook. And by the way that textbook is taught over two semesters at the university.
		

			It doesn't it's never taught in one semester. And then the green book on top of that is taught
another two semesters. So that's two years at university Arabic studies and that book, and I think
you can do that book and maybe two months, right now, you can you could crush both of those books in
a couple of months, just after you finish this. There's just as your because what that will do, what
that book will force you to do is it'll start you getting you to compose Arabic, you'll you won't
you're reading Well, now Al Hamdulillah. But you're still struggling to put your thoughts together
and compose things, it'll force you to start composing also, so that that that middle skill set is
		

			going to start building up, I can check, you know, 1000 people's essays, I can't do that. There's,
it's impossible, the qualitative checks are impossible. So you guys have to do some of that work.
And Inshallah, when you do that, as you're doing that, I'm going to start giving you some more
because the Arabic that I'm going to be building here for you, it's not going to be the Arabic of
speech or the Arabic of composition, it's the Arabic of reading analysis of texts, your I'm
interested in getting you to Islamic studies. But that doesn't mean that's the only Arabic that
should concern you, you should be concerned with filling the gaps of your Arabic that this program
		

			doesn't cover. The Dream Program. Is that all things Arabic, it's Islamic Studies Arabic, right? But
I'm aware of the other areas of Arabic and I want you to know how to how to, like start tapping into
them. Inshallah, okay, this year, I was supposed to try and do an immersion program in Turkey. And
things happened I wasn't able to pull that off. But the plan isn't last yet. I what I'm what I'm
hoping to do,
		

			which was conceptualized in my mind now is, hopefully by next summer, I'll have the website made in
a couple of months, though, is an Arabic intensive that's a month long. For people that want to do
the very basic curriculum, like intensives one and two, they can come to that and do that. And then
people that want to go deeper into Quranic Arabic or rather inter inter reading and advanced
studies, they can do that with an Arab teacher, they can go through a text go through a book, and
then people that don't even know I live by can come there in 30 days, they can start reading from
the Quran, like people have different levels of Arabic will have something to do for 30 days to
		

			enhance themselves. And in the evening, I'll just
		

			have to use of the Quran. So I'll put people in different categories in the day. And in the evening
we can study a sutra in depth together in sha Allah new are those so that's kind of the structure in
my mind for an Arabic intensivo probably give it its original name Quran intensive and put that
together. Right now Turkey is looking like a really good candidate, but I'm gonna finish my homework
on it and see if we could do that inshallah.
		

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