Shadee Elmasry – Where do we get our knowledge from
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The speakers discuss the difficulty of finding the right teacher and the lack of knowledge in certain areas, emphasizing the importance of the Prophet peace be upon and the use of fitna in the prayer. They stress the need for clarity in certain situations and the importance of understanding what is right and wrong. They also discuss the importance of developing one's own scholarships and avoiding mistakes, emphasizing the need for consistency in graduation programs and learning from peers.
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You know, before I came here, it was very difficult to really get
in touch with the right teachers and to learn the right knowledge.
And I would say the majority of people today don't even know where
to start. Right? Where do you get the right teacher? Who do you
contact? And let's say, if we were to focus our, you know, range
down, let's just take the average Muslim, what is the average Muslim
supposed to do? This? This is a good question. Because
how do you start and in anything, really just getting your foot in
the door is the biggest accomplishment. I remember myself
being totally confused. Now, I love scholarship and knowledge but
didn't know that our OMA was as divided and broken up as it is,
which is prophesied. So
the Prophet told us this, this is going to happen, which gives the
person comfort because when you see a problem, and there you have
your Prophet peace be upon him telling you that he's telling you
that is going to happen. That means he's also given you an
antidote to it, right? A solution to it. Right? He recognizes it. So
you know, this prophet, Prophet peace be upon him. He's not with
us today, but his prophecies are living amongst us today. We see it
in front of our own our own two eyes. So the way I began was, I
asked myself what access do I have? And that is Allah so we
don't you have Allah. Right. And we have a DUA, that is the dua
that will deliver you right to the scholarship, that is going to be
true, Aloha Medina, and we're gonna talk about that about
tomorrow. This is a dua that should be said, in the last third
of the night, in the prayer in the search data with Tada with
desperation, whenever a person is confused about the truth whenever
an individual doesn't know. All right, and fitna is not fits. And
it has a couple of meanings. Number one is temptation. Number
two, it's killing right. And the third definition of it is when the
truth and falsehood are confused, when the truth and falsehood are
confused, right? And a person doesn't know truth from falsehood.
At that point. That's what we call fitna, right. We call that fitna,
and this dua is supposed to clear up the fitna. On top of that you
have in the Quran. Okay, well may attack Allah Jalla hamaca. Raja.
All right. Why does Aquaman Hydrolat Jessup, right. And we
have
this idea which says whoever is taqwa Allah will show a way out
for him. This isn't everything in knowledge and wealth. In any
situation. Whoever has Taqwa Allah will show him a way out. Okay?
Well my tequila your Aleem Allah, whoever has taqwa, right. And we
the Prophet peace Ivana said, Whoever acts upon what Allah
taught him, that Allah will give him more knowledge directly from
himself. And that knowledge directly from himself is not
anything new. It's understanding of what's right and what's wrong.
Okay, whenever you have a dilemma, what is this right or is that
wrong? So most people out there, they are suffering from this and
will continue because as new events come, you get more confused
by new events where there's no precedent on these events. So even
the contemporary scholars will be different. And by the way, in
America, you have very few scholars, you have advanced
students of knowledge, right? So even in America, don't say all
these are Scott, you have advanced students of knowledge, we also
have, we have to recognize that advanced students of knowledge,
that means there'll be susceptible to mistakes, and they have to have
teachers that they go back to. Alright, as much as there's a
movement now to this. Alright, let's develop our own scholarship.
How are you going to develop scholarship when you don't even
have scholars in the first place? You have to have there has to be a
constant go back and forth. And the advanced pseudo knowledge he's
going to be wise enough to recognize what part of his
teachers teachings are
relevant to his location, right and which part were are absolute
right to every location. So could you Could you repeat the dua for
us once again, the DUA is Allahumma. Edina haka, haka. What
is alternativa? Well, at nl bathala Bartylla, what is open HT
Nova, which means, Oh Allah, show me the truth as truth, right, and
give and bless me with the ability to follow it and show me falsehood
as falsehood and give me the ability to avoid it. And we avoid
falsehood, right? There's some people out there. And Islam is not
a type of free for all operation. If once you know that something is
a falsehood, the proponents of that falsehood we are taught to
stop listening to them completely. Right. Yeah, there's someone with
a complete heresy in the Dean yet why you're going to confuse
yourself, right? You're going to confuse yourself, you're going to
be confused, okay? And you're going to end up going in circles.
Okay. And the if you had any other discipline, in any other
discipline, you spend a long time choosing what university you go
to, and then you stick to it. You don't switch every two years. You
don't take a class here in a class there. You don't switch out after
freshman year and then after sophomore year, switch to another
school trainers
If you're going to get a trainer, you're going to think very hard on
who is the right trainer. Okay, you go and spend a little time
with this person a little time with the next person all the time
with the third person. And then you figure out which trainer right
is going to suit you and you stick with them, the people who switch
and go back and forth. These are the least the last people to
learn, right? are the last people to achieve or attain anything you
need consistency in all disciplines. So imagine now the
most important discipline the discipline with a lot of detail,
the discipline with the most on the line, there's we have heaven
and * on the line, right? So a person should spend a lot of time
first asking the question of from whom do we take our deen? Right
What are the signs of people we said the first sign is if you see
if you're in their presence, you remember Allah azza wa jal, the
second sign all right, is will focus equally the element Aleem
above this person is another scholar, which means and above
that scholars and other scholars and above that scholars another
scholar, what do we call that? Is Ned a chain of transmission?
Right? He's not coming out of the blue. So this is a very important
subject the subject of who do we learn from