Shadee Elmasry – 80 Year Old Memorizes Quran – Its NEVER Too Late to Study Islam

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The importance of learning and practicing Islam is emphasized, particularly in a rushing time. Personal effort and dedication to achieving Islam's ultimate goal is emphasized. The curriculum is designed to be flexible and include a course in a one hour a week, with the key being to go to Arcview and pick a discipline. The curriculum is designed to be flexible and include a course in a one hour a week, with the key being to go to Arcview and pick a discipline. The curriculum is designed to be flexible and include a course in a one hour a week, with the key being to go to Arcview and pick a discipline.

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			A whole purpose of this live stream and
		
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			this podcast, it's almost dawah to knowledge.
		
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			It's Muslims who are, you know, they're in
		
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			Islam, but we're telling you, knowledge is the
		
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			path.
		
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			That is the path.
		
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			Some of the scholars said, if the Fuqaha
		
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			aren't the people of Allah, the Awliya Allah,
		
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			then he has no people.
		
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			Others said, if the Hadith scholars are not
		
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			the people of Allah, if the Hufadh are
		
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			not the...
		
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			All of these are the people of Allah,
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			So one of the things is that this
		
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			is a nonstop thing.
		
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			The ulema never have a concept of graduating.
		
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			There's just a period where you studied a
		
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			bit more, then you have more responsibilities in
		
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			life, and so you studied a bit less.
		
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			But in, for example, in Dar al-Mustafa,
		
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			I pointed to a 74-year-old student,
		
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			enrolled, sleeps there, 74 years old.
		
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			In one of the majalis of the classes
		
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			on Sha'arani's Kashf al-Ghumma, one of
		
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			the men reading was an owner of a
		
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			shop.
		
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			And this is after Fajr, so he comes,
		
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			prays Fajr at Dar al-Mustafa, and he
		
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			was there, so he was the one reading
		
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			the Hadiths, right, to the Sheikh.
		
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			And he's the owner of a shop with
		
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			a white beard.
		
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			So it doesn't stop, it never ends.
		
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			And if you're someone who works, if you're
		
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			somebody who thinks, oh, I can't be a
		
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			student because I have this Western concept of
		
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			student, where you need to be young and
		
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			to be doing nothing else for four years.
		
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			You've got it wrong.
		
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			It's not the case how it is at
		
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			all.
		
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			One of our great, one of your teachers,
		
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			I believe, Sheikh Samir Nass.
		
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			Did you cross paths with him?
		
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			Sheikh Samir Nass?
		
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			No, no.
		
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			OK, so, but in Syria, Sheikh Samir Nass
		
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			was a medical doctor.
		
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			Yeah, yeah, yeah.
		
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			And he took the classes, but he never
		
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			stopped taking the classes in the masjid until
		
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			he's now a sheikh.
		
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			Sheikh Yusuf Ghaffar is the same, he's a
		
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			surgeon.
		
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			Yeah, subhanAllah.
		
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			He's another one of the same.
		
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			That's another thing that we should really stress,
		
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			like people need to get out of that
		
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			funk of thinking that Islam has to be
		
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			studied and practiced in like some pristine environment
		
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			far away from everyone else.
		
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			Like no, it has to be done.
		
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			You just put it in as part of
		
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			your daily life.
		
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			It just fits in.
		
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			You just have to do that way.
		
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			Again, I was talking to my teachers not
		
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			that long ago because we were looking at
		
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			Khatib al-Baghdadi's book and there's all these
		
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			narrations that he has in there.
		
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			There's one chapter all about like seeking knowledge
		
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			until you die, until you die.
		
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			Like it's never too late.
		
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			It's never too late.
		
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			Just put the effort in.
		
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			Don't think, oh, it's too late.
		
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			I'll never become a, okay, that's not the
		
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			point.
		
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			The fact is that you tried.
		
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			That is you put the effort in.
		
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			And again, in the UK, like he told
		
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			me about an old man in the UK
		
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			who started, he started memorizing the Qur'an
		
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			when he was retired, he was like in
		
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			his 80s.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			He was 80 and he retired.
		
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			So he just got one of the local
		
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			Arabian moms to sit down with him.
		
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			This was just like his lifelong goal, right?
		
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			Like just memorize Qur'an.
		
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			He finally had the time and he would
		
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			meet with the imam for like between like
		
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			say 6 a.m. and 10 a.m.
		
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			in the morning after Fajr and then he'd
		
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			go home to have breakfast.
		
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			And I think he did it within like
		
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			just a few years.
		
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			Like I think somewhere between like two and
		
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			five years.
		
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			It didn't take him that long.
		
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			Amazing.
		
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			And then when he finished, and then when
		
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			he finished, like so my teacher told me
		
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			the story.
		
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			And when he finished, he was kind of
		
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			like teary eyed because he was like, I'm
		
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			done now.
		
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			Like I didn't think it would happen this
		
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			quickly.
		
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			I'm done.
		
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			And then he was like, well, what do
		
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			I do now?
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			What do I do?
		
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			He was just shocked.
		
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			A week later, he went back to Allah.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			A week later, he went back to Allah.
		
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			Allah took him back.
		
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			It's like, you just never know.
		
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			You just never know.
		
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			Like it's just, Allah, like he lived his
		
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			whole life and right at the end of
		
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			his life, it's like Allah said to him,
		
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			that's it.
		
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			I'm gonna put my speech in your heart
		
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			and then you'll come home.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			That is amazing.
		
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			So like you never, ever, ever lose hope.
		
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			Never, ever lose hope.
		
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			Never think, oh, no, I'm 50, I'm 60.
		
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			What am I gonna do?
		
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			This guy was 80.
		
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			This guy was 80 something.
		
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			Well, let me give the listeners a piece
		
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			of advice.
		
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			There's a young man named Shai Master101 asking,
		
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			you know, how do I study?
		
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			The key is, it's the idea of understanding
		
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			your curriculum.
		
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			And that's also one of our points here
		
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			is that when you study, let's say you're
		
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			gonna study Quran, Hifz or Tafsir or Aqidah
		
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			or Fiqh.
		
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			You need to pick one.
		
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			Let's say I only have a chance hour
		
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			a week.
		
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			Fine, you could do a lot in an
		
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			hour a week, but you're not gonna do
		
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			a lot swimming around.
		
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			You need to pick a discipline and you
		
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			go to Arcview where those books will be
		
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			taught to you one at a time.
		
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			And then they will repeat the next year
		
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			in case to fill in whatever you miss
		
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			and do it again the next year.
		
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			Fill in whatever you miss.
		
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			In one year, one hour a week in
		
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			Arcview.
		
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			Let's say in the Maliki School, you're gonna
		
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			study Ashmawiya Akhdari Ibn Ashur.
		
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			You do that one year, then listen to
		
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			the recordings again.
		
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			Well, firstly, they're live, virtual but live.
		
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			Then the next year, you enter to the
		
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			intermediate level.
		
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			And one but one, if that's all you
		
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			got, one hour a week.
		
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			The key is build properly as opposed to
		
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			put a block here, a block there, a
		
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			block here, a block there, a block here.
		
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			You look, you put in effort, you know
		
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			a couple of things here and there, but
		
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			nothing systematic.
		
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			And that's the whole key.
		
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			And the curriculum we have here in Arcview,
		
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			like this Tafsir, this Tafsir, anywhere you go
		
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			in the Islamic world, they know this Tafsir.
		
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			It's one of the most famous Tafsir in
		
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			the world.
		
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			From the contemporary Tafsir, Sheikh Mehdi, is there
		
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			a more well-known Tafsir than Safwat's Tafsir,
		
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			contemporary?
		
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			I would say, I would put up there,
		
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			probably Sheikh Sha'arawi.
		
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			Mufamadu Sha'arawi, Al-Khawater.
		
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			Imam Mahdi Zuhayli's Tafsirs, they're very well-known,
		
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			because he's done three.
		
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			Other than that, Subhanallah, other than that, I
		
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			can't, not too many come to mind, like
		
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			off the top of my head.
		
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			But obviously, like Sheikh Sha'arawi, like that's
		
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			been translated, that's available in PDFs.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Because I was part of that project, and
		
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			that also is like 27 volumes or something.
		
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			These curriculums and these Tafsirs, wherever you go
		
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			in the Islamic world, you could take what
		
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			you've learned at ARCVIEW, and plug it in.
		
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			If you go to Pakistan, and you say,
		
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			hey, I studied two years ARCVIEW, Hanafi Fiqh,
		
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			he's gonna say, what book?
		
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			You're gonna sell him Nura Lidah, or you
		
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			know, Hanafi 101, whatever it is, you plug
		
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			it in, he's gonna know exactly what you
		
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			said, what you studied, and you continue with
		
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			him.
		
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			That's why it's so important to have aligned
		
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			our curriculum with the global Ummah-wide curriculum.
		
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			This is not some shoot-off thing where
		
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			you study something so unique, you can't transfer
		
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			it.
		
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			No, you could transfer this so easily.
		
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			And all of our ulema here, all of
		
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			our teachers at ARCVIEW, can contact teachers in
		
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			different countries, and within one or two connections,
		
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			you know, the six degrees of connection, within
		
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			one or two connections, can set you up,
		
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			yes, so-and-so studied with us, and
		
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			this is what he knows.
		
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			That's so important.
		
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			So that's because, okay, I don't need to
		
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			go with you the 10 chapters.
		
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			You're on chapter 11, we don't need to
		
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			review the 10 chapters, so-and-so says
		
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			you know them well.
		
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			Let's go straight into 11th chapter, so on
		
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			and so forth.
		
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			So that's why it's important to have a
		
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			curriculum.
		
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			So if you have a small amount of
		
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			time, you can still become learned if you
		
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			structure things properly.
		
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			It's like math.
		
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			I can't learn an algorithm here, a terminology,
		
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			piece of terminology there, a formula here.
		
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			It's not gonna work like that.
		
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			You gotta take each lesson one at a
		
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			time.
		
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			And with Arabic, Arabic is, maybe I would
		
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			say something a little bit different about Arabic.
		
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			It's just a matter of time, right?
		
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			If you, and reading Tafsir is the best
		
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			way to do it because you're enjoying it,
		
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			or you're reading this out of joy, right?
		
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			And you're learning so much, and Arabic is
		
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			almost tucked into the whole experience.