Tom Facchine – Minute with a Muslim #013 – How to seek ISLAMIC KNOWLEDGE

			A very common question we get is I want to start seeking knowledge. But how do I do it? There's so
much to say on this issue. But I think people need to realize that the place that you start is with
Arabic in the Koran, and the quicker that you can get out of the English language and into studying
knowledge and Arabic, the better and you should be suspicious of teachers or institutions that keep
you too long in the English language because the Quran is an Arabic Quran as a last point, data set
and the Hadith are in Arabic, Arabic, as Sheikh Abdullah used to say is we are otherwise the vessel
of the Revelation. So you're always going to have a degree of alienation and separation from what's
		

			really going on if you're not studying in Arabic. So there's so many opportunities, more
opportunities, even when I'm when I started these days to do that, to start your Arabic journey. In
your Koran journey, the important thing is that you're consistent and that you're mature and that
you're sincere. Of course, when it comes to maturity, what am I talking about, I'm talking about,
you should try to find a curriculum and stick with it and finish it and then move on to another
curriculum, because what happens a lot of times is people become partisan, and everybody needs to be
aware of becoming partisan. So they'll do one particular thing. And they'll think that all of Islam
		

			is just completely Manhasset, limited to that one particular group, or that one particular
curriculum, they'll look down on other curriculums or other Institute's and that's not what a mature
student of knowledge does maturity of knowledge, they start where they start with who they start
with people in their locality, whatever is available to them, they go as far as they can, and then
they move on. And then you're going to realize that, you know, there are different perspectives,
there are things that are non negotiable. And Islam, of course, and there are things that are open
to interpretation, and a couple or various different, let's say multiple interpretations are valid.
		

			So this is something that can't be just spelled out to you in the beginning, this is something that
you're going to have to figure out on your own, you're going to have to navigate it. And so it's
going to take maturity to deal with that and be patient with it. Because in the beginning, the
temptation is to think that the only thing that's out there is the thing that you know. So in
general, I mean, that would be my sort of advice with studying knowledge is just about who's the
last one left, who's going to stick with it the longest, it's not about sort of how fast you go.
It's just one foot in front of the other and you keep on moving. So consistency, maturity and
		

			obviously you have to have a good intention. You're not qualified to understand who knows what
they're talking about and who doesn't. So you should pick your teachers based off of their clock
based off of their character and you should run far away from anybody who has poor character because
if they have poor character, even if they're teaching you knowledge that is technically correct, it
might be a hydraulic while I select it might be against you in the afterlife, it might be building
the case against you for your own punishment, as opposed to being something that you're going to
benefit from, let alone benefit others. So that's my advice, and inshallah Tada. There's much more
		

			to say on the topic, but that's at least where to start.