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