Nouman Ali Khan – How Can We Increase Our Attention Span During Quran Study – Q&A
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The speaker discusses the importance of systematic learning for Muslims, rather than just listening to long form content like YouTube. They suggest that learning can be a part of one's lifestyle and recommend starting with a small series of content and eventually becoming more comfortable with their knowledge. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of educating oneself and offers resources for learning the Quran.
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The the mistake that many of us make
is that so long as I'm getting something
Islamic, that's good.
The problem with that is you'll hear 20
years of something Islamic and we'll learn nothing
because you're just all over the place. It's
just it's just random stuff.
How do we
increase our attention span? Because in order to
study Quran Right. You need to study for
some time.
I realized I could read 4 or 5
pages. Right now after 2 pages, I think,
I know, I I feel that attention span
is really
reducing Yeah. In my life. And for installation,
that is more prominent. So I'll ask your,
kind of, wisdom on on how do we
increase our attention span.
Okay. I mean,
I could give a long answer to that,
but the short answer is long form content.
I think, okay, if you can't pay attention
to reading too much,
then at the very least start listening to
longer
materials. Like, I know in my generation,
the 18 thirties, when we were consuming Islamic
materials,
we were getting cassette tapes. That's how old
I am. But you get you wouldn't get
one cassette tape. You get a set of
them, and you'd listen to 40, 50 hours
of something.
Right? Like so the arabs here
are used to listening to Sheikh Asharawi for
example,
and they've heard 100 of hours of him.
Like I grew up, you know, in my
young college years, I was listening to dozens
and dozens and dozens, actually hundreds of hours
of Doctor. Asar Ahmad for example, right? Or
doctor Jamal Badawi for example.
But now when I ask younger generations how
do you get your Islam, they just say
YouTube. And YouTube is essentially short form or
randomized content, right? It's an algorithm.
So my my first suggestion is systematic learning.
Even if it's casual learning, it's continuous.
Right? It's a long series
that you're you're consuming. So you decide what
subject you want to learn and you
kind
of ignore all the other subjects.
My my advice to anybody who wants to
study Islam on their own seriously, there's one
thing if you're going to a madrasah or
you're going to an Islamic university, that's fine.
That's different. But the average Muslim is not
gonna do that. Right? So what what about
the rest of us? The rest of us,
the the mistake that many of us make
is that so long as I'm getting something
Islamic, that's good.
The problem with that is you'll hear 20
years of something Islamic and we'll learn nothing
Because you're just all over the place. It's
just it's just random stuff.
But if you decide okay this year, I'm
just gonna learn as much as I can
about Surat Al Baqarah for example.
Or this year, I'm just gonna dedicate some
time to learn about the seerah of the
prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam, or something like
that. You identify
one thing that you wanna know more about
within Islam. There's always gonna be a 1,000
things you'll be ignorant of,
and you have to become comfortable with your
ignorance.
If you can become comfortable with your ignorance,
you'll be fine.
Right? So I'm studying something right now. I
know there's a there's a bucket list of
things I don't know
for myself.
But I'm I'm comfortable ignoring all of it,
and saying I will remain ignorant of those
things because right now I need to know
this.
But that It's that it's that strange distraction.
You know, too much of a too much
of a good thing is a bad thing.
Right? You got this good thing, this good
thing, this good thing, and you're just picking
from everything and you're not really getting anything
in the end. So that would be my
advice for developing
not just attention span but also really educating
yourself
over time.
Thank you. Thank you.
I hope you guys enjoyed that video clip.
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