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