Tom Facchine – al-Raghib al-Isfahani #74 – They Knocked Me Over In The Prophets Masjid

			Next all what else? Rouhani answer is a really, really interesting and important section he talks
about the essential characteristics for students. And the first is just like we said about
prioritizing different types of knowledge. Etiquette comes first manners comes first, right? And so
the first essential characteristic for anybody who wants to learn anything is purifying the self of
poor etiquette. And that can look like a lot of different things. It can look like haste, okay,
people want to become a scholar overnight, or they want to do it in a year. You know, this type of
person needs to understand that you can't be hasty when it comes to seeking knowledge, whether it's
		

			the Koran or whether it's anything, it is a lake that is formed to drop by drop, it's a mountain
that is formed pebble by pebble. And so that's actually really the whole point because it takes
discipline and you're customizing the self to being disciplined and doing something. So eliminating
the sense of haste. Jealousy is another important thing we discussed that before. Very, very
essential to read the self of jealousy. You need to be the biggest cheerleader of your colleagues of
your fellow students, you need to define and experience your success in their success. If you do
Allah will put blessing on what you do. If you don't, then who knows. I mean, the stuff that you
		

			might be learning might actually be against you on the Day of Judgment, you can't prevent other
people or obstruct them or belittle them or anything like this. No, you're supposed to engender an
environment of mutual aid and mutual support and mutual encouragement and you should not be
discouraging to other people. So one time in Medina, we would sit between Maghrib and Isha for
Sheikh Abdullah and feeties Tafseer lessons, and there was a certain Sheikh who had a lesson after
that, and to his students who start to gather around, okay, no problem, they wouldn't necessarily
pay a lot of attention to to shake up the last lesson, which is fine, okay, no problem. But they
		

			were so eager, let's say to put it in a nice way to get a spot in the front row for the following
lesson that they would do things that were very rude, right, and one particular time because I would
always be humbled upfront for shake up those lessons. And then like, as soon as the event went off,
and we're getting prepared to pray and literally, I'm standing up and they're rushing to reserve
their spot with their bag or whatever, seriously, they actually knocked me over like I fell backward
onto the floor and the Prophet smashed machine. Okay, where's the the hidden? Well, Ana at the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Okay, if there was blessing in this type of thing the
		

			Prophet SAW I said, I'm would have praised it. And yet we find that he prays the opposite, you know,
he prays to the to the companion, that when it came to meeting him on a salatu salam, that he went
home first and he cleaned himself up first and he took his time and then he said that these are two
qualities that Allah loves him forbearance and like taking your time, not being hasty, right, not
rushing, and these sorts of things, and that was for meeting the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam, but
what about trying to sit in a sheiks lesson, right, regardless of the other sorts of things that
went on, and there were lots of other things that went on. So purifying yourself and purifying your
		

			etiquette is an extremely, extremely important thing that the student should not fall prey to the
west west or the devilish satanic suggestion that they need to be so aggressive, right with every
thing that they're pursuing, or else it's going to fall away from them. They're not going to
benefit. No, we believe in Baraka, we believe in Allah's blessing. And so if you do the little
things, right, and a little things, in fact, are actually quite big things. If you take care of your
etiquette, if you're humble if you are forbearing. If you have your attitude of collaboration and
encouragement with your fellow students, then Allah Spano thought was going to put much more
		

			blessing in your studies than if you come at it with haste or with jealousy or aggression.