Suhaib Webb – Priorities Are Our Tafsir

Imam al Musani teaches us the importance of

priorities.

He came to Imam al Shafi'i, Rahim, and

he asked him he wanted to ask him

some questions, and these questions were sort of

theoretical questions and somewhat difficult

and not really practical.

And so every time he asked

Sayedna, your mom Sheff, are you one of

these questions?

Actually, there were 5 of them. Your mom

Sheff, he would respond and ask him a

question related to, like, purification

or prayer.

And then finally, after he finished asking these

questions and Imam Shafi kept responding with questions

about the obligations,

Imam Shafi said, like, how incredible is it

that someone is asking about these things,

which are not really applicable and important,

But he is unaware of things that he

has to do at a minimum 5 times

a day, related to purification and prayer. And

then the Imam al Musa, he realized, he

said, you know what? I need to have

my priorities in order. That's the case of

many of us. We don't have our priorities.