Shadee Elmasry – Studying Islam Don’t Let This Happen to You! Hysaw

What would you say is the point of seeking knowledge to become closer

to Allah? That's it. If your reason for anything else I

question, you know, why do I say that? Could you say no, but what

about my community? The thing is, when you say you're coming to

teach for your community, what you're doing is you're opening up

yourself, you're setting up the stage for your ego to become

bigger than it needs to be SubhanAllah. You understand? So

when you come back, some brothers not be very honest, some brothers

come home, and they expect to be treated a certain kind of way. I

hate being called shake. It wasn't wasn't till recently, I heard

Sheikh Muhammad and anyway, he said, I call people shift out of

respect, if any, he said anybody who has received some form of

Islamic teaching, I refer to them as ship but not shakez in an

island. Because the majority of you are not alums. You are not of

the early amount. And I thought about that for a second. I said,

Okay, I can accept that. Because I don't like being called chef,

because I'm not a chef. I haven't spent 20 years of my life in

studies. You know what I'm saying? I sometimes the one of my Algerian

teachers, he says, what is an lm n, is when someone asks you a

question. And you're flipping through the pages of the book in

your mind, to find the muscle to find the answer to the situation

that's been given you. Not someone who says, Hold on, let me get back

to you. I'm gonna check my books. And he's got this massive library.

I'm gonna check my books, bro, I'll be back. That's not an

island.

He told me that Ireland is not a person who takes a lot of books

and studies. He takes one book, and he has Massey's read it over

500 times. He said, that is an island. So my thing is, is that

when we're looking at people who, who like to profess that there are

people of knowledge, a lot of things just get opened up brother

that are dangerous. So your goal has to be Allah and only Allah, in

your acquisition of seeking knowledge, whether you go across

seas, whether you're sitting with Dr. Shadi, whether you're sitting

with me, whether you're sitting with shake up the cream, yah, yah,

Shaykh, Yahya, Rhodus, whomever, whomever Allah puts you, in front

of, no matter who that person is, your intention has to be for the

pleasure of Allah to become closer to Allah to understand, because

another thing we have to become people have you Balliol Jeffrey

said this, we have to become people of hotkey of reality of

experience. Now, people are sutra, the people who look the part, I've

got a few beautiful words. And I've learned a few things. I read

a couple of Hadith, but nothing has been eternalized. You

understand brother, I mean, I can go on and on with this. I think

you kind of got it at this point. But it has to be internalized. So

when we speak, we're not speaking because we read something and

we're regurgitating knowledge. We're speaking from the point of

view of experience. And I even myself, I'm still at all these

years of being removed from tutoring, because I left him in

2003. Now, that doesn't mean you've arrived, the student really

becomes a student when they start teaching Subhanallah because

that's when you really start learning because now you're gonna

get hit with things you weren't taught in class, or you weren't

expecting or maybe that day you didn't show up, or you didn't pay

attention, or whatever the case may be. Now you got to go and find

some answers.

You know what I'm saying? Now you can you say, I don't know, are you

going to be one of those people that don't try and answer anyways,

and then find out you were wrong and have to come back home

brother, I'm sorry. Last time I told you this last week, I mean,

which happens, it happens. So Hamdulillah. But my thing is, is

that I want for all those who are thinking about studying who are

actively studying, you got to watch your egos. You got to stay

sincere. And this has to be for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala

really, it has to be about the sake of Allah subhanaw taala and

your personal development with Allah. And if Allah chooses you to

be one who disseminate this knowledge and Allahu Akbar, but

there are a lot of people who have gone to train and you don't know

anything about them. And it's not about oh, like, like, our beloved

doctor here has said that they may do are not to be seen. No, no. I

can tell you right now that ain't the case. They came, they got what

they came there for and they left and just being honest, you know,

some people come to determine stuff just so they can say I was

with the Hubei of those one brother particularly. Tell

everybody I was Habib's top student.

You've been there cumulatively, six months, if that cumulatively,

if that one did how what? How do you become student? You know, and

what's funny to us is that the FBI, the FBI of all tell us, the

ones who sit in the front row are the sickest ones. Subhanallah

they're the ones who have the most they're the sick

is once it's the ones that are far away, they're the closest to us.

And they all say this. And it's not trying to be, you know, like,

you know, to say something nice about the people sitting far away.

This is a reality is and will Amel Wadala knowledge and well I'm a

works so you can't just learn and not do you have to do what you

learn. In other words you become what you learn you become the

experience, what Dawa then there's the Dawa part. And that was given,

like we said many, many different ways. Many of our scholars of the

old used to sit literally sit in the back at different gatherings

and not say a word until they heard something wrong. Then they

will say something and they said they did speak. Everyone in the

room knew who the real fuck he was. I'm not looking to do that.

But I do sit in the back and I'm quiet. I'm not always when I come

in and gathers. I'm not trying to sit up in the front. I'm trying to

be in the back.

That's what I've learned. And I understand it. Don't want to be in

the front. I don't like being the amount of thought too much

pressure.

It just is it sorry, it is safer.

Safer. Thank you. So So I'll give you a long as I keep because I

really holistically want you and everyone else listening to

understand that this is not about becoming famous or popular. Not

saying that that was your intention or that was part of your

question or what you were thinking but as what can happen is what can

happen to a lot of people you