Shadee Elmasry – Where do we get our knowledge from

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