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Again, today is day 13
of Ramadan 360.
It may sound cliche, but how time flies.
Right? So, Han Allah, it's already day 13.
And for today, we're gonna touch on the
topic of
knowledge with Shaik Yahya Adil Ibrahim.
So let me just check
if Shaik Yahya is already on the room.
I think Shakya is already here.
Alright.
Alright. As you all know, Shaykh Ihadu, Ibrahim
is among the amazing scholars of Almergib Institute
all the way from Australia. I think but
you've mentioned, Shaykh, that you're in Malaysia right
now. How is your Suhur?
It's
going well.
Alright, Shaikh. I know that you have to
run for further later on. So, miss Mila,
Just wanted to say a shout out to
my brother,
Hajj Salim. Allah
bless him. I saw him sitting there, just
as we were getting on.
Inshallah, we get to travel again together soon,
my brother.
May Allah
grant you and I
in our blessed month of Ramadan.
May Allah make it a month that is,
full of learning.
And, the topic that we have today is
about knowledge.
And, of course, all of us,
we value learning. We value knowing.
And I wanted to speak about,
how
knowledge can be transformative.
And this is important because the month of
Ramadan, we seek it to be a month
of therapy.
I have a book called Ramadan Therapy that
may be of interest for those who,
are looking for something a little bit different,
this year.
But in general, as you and I become
more in tune with who we are, with
our bodies, with our limitations,
with our hunger, with our thirst,
with our,
caffeine
addictions, with, whatever it is that we find
as, pluses and hindrances
in our life. The month of Ramadan is
really a month of learning.
And, subhanallah, I want to speak about knowledge
in a way that
is is something that I think is fundamental
for us
to continue a growth and a growth mindset
in aspects of our life.
So,
the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, Allah addresses
him and says,
You know, this is,
the the the letter fa. It's not
it's not just
it's not just know
or come to know. It's an emphatic. Continue
to know.
Continue to learn. Continue to practice what you
know.
Continue to learn about what is coming next.
That there in reality is really none that
is worthy of your devotion, your worship, your
intimate knowledge of anything or anyone else other
than Allah.
And that knowledge then of you coming to
know Allah leads you to the secondary conclusion.
And therefore, ask pardon, ask forgiveness
for what you do that may be of
negligence
in fulfilling what you've come to know of
Allah.
So, subhanAllah, in the month of Ramadan, we
come to know that Allah is the merciful,
the one we beg to grant us forgiveness,
the one we beg to change our condition,
the one we beg to protect what we
have. And the essentials of Dua is that
you want something more,
or you don't want to lose something that
you have, or you want to receive something
that you don't have, or that you want
to be protected from something that has not
yet arrived. So there are 4 essentials in
in our
devotion. As you make Dua, those are really
the 4 categories.
Things that I have that I value. I
love my wife. I love my children. I
love my home. I love my job. I
love my iman. I love my salah.
Oh, Allah, don't test my faith. Don't take
iman out of my heart.
Oh, Allah, Make Iman beautified.
Beautified in our hearts, oh, Allah. So it's
something that I possess. I don't want to
lose it.
Number 2, it's something that I have, oh
Allah, take this away from me.
Oh Allah, you know, this illness help me
cure me, assist
me. This
debt, remove it off me. Right?
Then there are the 3rd categories. There's things
that we don't have that we want to
invite into our life.
Oh, Allah, give me this,
oh, Allah, you know, bless me with Zacharias
asking for a child. You know, everybody there's
things that everybody is seeking from Allah of
what they have not yet achieved.
And then there are things that have not
arrived to us that you ask Allah to
protect us from.
And, therefore, you come to know Allah
continue learning about Allah, and this is an
order to the prophet and his.
It leads you to then saying, oh, now
that I know more about law, I didn't
know how negligent I was yesterday.
Now that I know I know there is
more negligence than I assumed.
You know, the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, would
say,
Allahummafili,
ma'alamuamalaalam.
Oh, Allah, forgive me for what I know
and what I don't know.
You know, the large and the small,
the the minute and and and the expensive.
So knowledge then becomes really powerful, and the
aya continues.
And don't just be self
aware,
but include others in it. Oh, Allah, protect
me and my home and my family.
Oh Allah,
Allah
The prophet would make dua on behalf of
those who even
antagonize them. Oh Allah, Forgive them for they
don't know.
They don't
know the reality of what it is that
they're contending with.
So because the prophet
is sent as the one who bears the
first words of revelation
You know, recite,
render into recitation, into active
participation
of your life. Read it for yourself, but
read it loud enough for others to benefit
from,
in in the way of your lord who
is the originator, the creator, the sustainer, the
provider, the halakh of everything.
And and and and the first, you know,
5 ayat of that surah,
it's read It's all about knowledge.
And therefore, it becomes the stepping stone for
any aspect of success in our life.
For myself and you to want to transform
anything in our life, it really begins
with an elemental
self awareness,
knowledge of Allah,
knowledge of circumstance, knowledge of debilitations,
knowledge of limitations,
and it allows us then to move forward.
So I wanted to touch upon a number
of issues.
We'll we'll we'll make them 7 but very
quickly in the 20 minutes that we have
together.
How can knowledge become transformative?
First, it extends your perspective.
SubhanAllah, many of us were locked in a
shell of what we
think we know about an issue.
So Alhamdulillah,
you ask a Muslim, do you know how
to pray? Yes. And then all of a
sudden, you give them a little bit of
insight into an aspect
So as you say, Allahu Akbar, there's a
different Dua that you can make for the
Istiftah, for the opening prayer before you read
the Fatiha.
Allahu Akbar.
You know, Allahu Akbar.
Right?
So all of a sudden, the depth and
the flavor of the salah,
the congruence of your heart and your mind,
all of a sudden your perspective extends.
Sometimes we think we know the ruling of
an issue, and we're surprised when we see
somebody doing something different.
And all of a sudden, our perspective that
was very narrow when we become acquainted with
the ilmen, the fiqh, and the understanding,
it expands.
So Allah
speaks to us about the transitions of knowledge
from just knowing the letter
to knowing the understanding of the letter, to
knowing the placement of the letter, to knowing
why this has significance in our life. So
as you become more introduced to knowledge, more
grounded in knowledge, as you become more as
your knowledge brings you closer to Allah, it
introduces you to new ideas about Allah that
are from the precedence of Allah's revelation
that you weren't knowing of Allah
with that depth and that flavor and that
character and that love. It gives you a
a newer perspective,
a a different way of thinking about how
to fix your mistakes and how to ask
for forgiveness and how to, you know, soldier
on in in the tragedies and the difficulties
that we encounter in life as a sign
of Allah's love for us. It broadens our
understanding of the world. It broadens our interactions
with each other and it'll label it enables
you and I to see beyond
the immediate surroundings that we're in, the bubble
of our culture, the bubble of our madhab,
the bubble
of the limited hadith that we knew, the
bubble of the limited interpretations that we had.
And as you expand the knowledge, it extends
your perspective
that it allows you to foster greater empathy,
and become more tolerant and become more open
minded, and it's a beautiful thing.
The second aspect is that Elum is
empowering. It's strengthening.
Subhanallah, there's just you become so much more
versatile.
With knowledge, you become empowered. You become
self aware,
and you become knowing of Allah
There's this it's
unshakable
that as you become
more knowing of Allah, you become more humble
to Allah,
and you become more,
aware of the ignorance that you had that
you thought you
had mastered. And as people ascended knowledge, they
understand really, ultimately, that they did not really
know, and they still do not know. And
those who know,
know they don't know.
Like, those who are acquainted
are those who understand they actually do not
know. And as you empower yourself with that
perspective, as your intellectual humility begins to grow,
you learn and want to learn more about
the various subjects that you remain ignorant of.
And that equips you with tools and information
to navigate aspects of life that you had
not
set to change and to challenge in your
own perspective.
And whether it's understanding a a complex aspect
of our faith or our deen or other
aspects in our life or our relationships
or our marital standing or whatever it is,
you begin to
hone
and to focus your skill set
of the knowledge and the interpretation of the
Quran and the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam into your human behavior that
it allows you to make informed decisions rather
than quick decisions.
And it allows you, because of that, to
be able to take more control
and more responsibility
on your life. So
becomes the vehicle for you becoming
someone who is more in control
of their emotions,
of lessening their anger.
It makes you more in control of your
temperament, your courage, your patience, your perseverance,
your tolerance. And that's really the Hadith of
the prophet,
Astonishing is the condition of a believer
who's centered with knowledge of Allah
that they have an awareness of Allah, all
of their conditions are good. There is the
concept of bad things happening to good people
is defunct for us as Muslims. We don't
believe that. The prophet tells us that's not
the reality. A Mu'min does not have bad
things happen to them. All of it is
good because their knowledge and their acquaintance with
Allah gives them that empowerment.
Number 3,
knowledge provides you access to critical thinking,
and it allows you to become more considerate
and more deliberate
in how you analyze information shared with you,
in what you hear, in what is said
to you,
in in in how you discern fact from
fiction,
sunnah from bida, halal from haram,
good from bad.
You're not duped.
You're not susceptible
to hearing things. Oh, yeah. This you should
do this, and you're like, you become more
critical. You're like, hold on a second.
But the prophet said,
about what the prophet said.
No. No. No. Hold on a second. I
read,
this,
and now you become more evaluative.
You become more evaluative
of the arguments presented to you, and more
evaluative
of what you say,
of what you share with others, of what
you forward
in your messages. You become much more critical
in how you,
pass through life.
That the the sea of information that is
being put, it's not about the information. It's
now about the understanding and the filtering of
that information
and having the hikmah to characterize it and
to place everything in its right place, which
allows you then to engage
with the world that you experience in a
much more constructive place.
And it makes you a fountain of Barakah
wherever you are. Ayesha alaihi salam, he says
to his people,
Allah destined me to be a source of
Barakah wherever I am. All of the mufasileen
say that the Barakah of Isa alaihi salam
wasn't curing the blind and bringing the dead
back to life by the power of Allah.
It was that he became a fountain of
knowledge. He was able
to critically
teach them the things that would lead them
to Allah. That is the greatest barakah. The
people
of acquaintance are Mubarak,
are blessed. Not that you touch them and
say, oh, give me some of your barakashayf,
but the blessing that I carry, that you
carry as Allah equips us with knowledge is
that we have answers,
and we're able to
filter with the sunnah of the prophet, salallahu
alaihi wa sallam, circumstances
in life. Number 4,
you definitely grow
and have personal growth and personal
best achievements.
SubhanAllah.
You know, what what's your personal best this
Ramadan? I want you to ask yourself that
question. What makes this Ramadan better than last
Ramadan?
You you prayed all of the last Ramadan.
You fasted all of the days last Ramadan.
You recited the whole Quran at least once
in your
last Ramadan.
Okay. Where where's the growth?
What's changed?
Where's the personal growth? Well, it's not gonna
change unless you become more aware of what
it is that I can change in the
month of Ramadan. What are the things that
I can do? What are the aspects of
of this Ramadan that I want to improve
of?
And therefore, as you
gain more knowledge about your duties to Allah,
about your circumstances of fasting as you become
more in tune
with the, you know, the fasting of regular
people, the fasting of the elite, the fasting
of of those who are beyond the stage
of elite that, you know, and Imam Al
Ghazali and others speak about the fasting of
the stomach and the fasting then of the
eyes and the limbs and then the fasting
of the heart. All of a sudden you
begin to grow,
and you seek out a greater Ramadan, and
that's really
why after your salah, at the end of
your salah, whether before salaham or after salaham,
you say
Let
my next be better than this. My,
prayer that I'm able to pay. May Allah
accept it, but may Allah give me a
better
and then a better and then a better
and a better day tomorrow than the day
that I have today. So that leads you
to a continuous process of learning and thus
self improvement.
And those two things are not always
congruent.
It's not always that because somebody knows that
it actually helps them to improve.
But once you link the 2, you become
unstoppable. As a believer, you become unstoppable as
a father. You become unstoppable as a wife
and a, you know, as an imam, as
a what what in whatever
aspect,
engages your life.
You grow.
You become more intellectual, more emotionally, and spiritually
available
to all of those around you because I
want to improve.
So it might be that your Ramadan, you
did everything you do in this year, but
this Ramadan,
I'm gonna focus on my family because, you
know, Allah says in the Quran, he talks
about verses of how a husband and wife
should be intimate in the month of Ramadan,
and that Allah hold us accountable. Hold on
a second. There's a whole dimension
to Ramadan that relates to husband and wife
relationships. I never explored that. Let me look
at that. Let me let me consider that.
Let me improve this aspect in my Ramadan.
As a wife, as a husband, let me
see what how can we become closer together
in our relationship just on account of Siam.
SubhanAllah.
It's an incredible, you know, the journey of
knowledge is a journey of personal growth. And
may Allah
allow,
you know, your your association with Al Maghrib
and with the the, you know, the the
masajid that you attend and the communities you
attend be reason for that personal growth.
Number 5,
social change.
It's not about me, myself, and I. It's
not about me, myself, and Allah alone. It's
about me, you, and Allah. Right? Sometime it's
not just, you know, I wanna be a
good person.
It's not just I wanna be,
but I also wanna be. Right? It's not
just I wanna do the right thing and
do the you know, everything is about me,
but now I wanna do go beyond that.
And I want to be a person who
brings goodness into other people's lives. I wanna
leverage good in other people's lives. Well, how
do I do that?
And what's the way
and what's the paradigm of change? And what
are the concepts and what are the
the aspects of Dawa that that can help
me achieve that? What are the new ideas?
What are new solutions? What are new technologies?
What are new methods of of learning and
teaching and pedagogy?
You know, knowledge is when we say we're
gonna study Islam and the study of Islam,
well, what are new age teaching techniques that
social scientists and psychologists and educational cons you
know,
are
are are are breaching and entering into that
at times, we as Muslims are kinda lagging
from. What's a a lack of knowledge?
And as you begin to learn about the
study of knowledge, as you begin to learn
about how to disseminate it, as you begin
to learn how to assess
what your children have learned, what you are
putting into practice,
all of a sudden, your life
changes, but more importantly, you can bring about
social change, and even if that social change
is just a dynamic
in your home,
you know, if if you can change the
culture of your home,
and then change the culture of your extended
family, then it goes beyond just the types
of food we eat and the second language
with that we speak in the home, and,
but now it's like a social
you know, we have a a new philosophical
understanding.
We have a new
inspired process of how it is we express
ourselves, the artistic expressions that we have within
ourselves,
that we get our children to learn calligraphy,
English as well as Arabic or as what
you know, whatever language or, you know, in
Urdu script and
script and and Kufic script, that all of
a sudden, there's there's all this knowledge that
is out there that at times we're absent
from, and we don't assume that it can
enrich our life. But if we can change,
it it can provide a social
change within our communities
based on the social change in our hearts
and in our homes and arts and minds.
And that can reshape
our masajid,
can reshape our classrooms,
can reshape our weekends,
Quran schools, and can reshape
our modes of thought.
Number 6,
knowledge,
increases creativity.
And the prophet I said was such a
creative person.
Like, it's I I,
one day, we,
I would love to collaborate with,
people to speak about the creativity of the
prophet in the solutions he would provide.
Like, the prophet was so creative in his
responses.
He was so creative in, you know, how
he answered questions. He was so creative
in
the art the art that he produced to
explain
complex things, the drawings
that he would make in the sand for
people,
the,
the the way he when he would hold
somebody forcefully to shake him into awakening. You
have
or Abdullah,
you know,
live in this life as if you're a
traveler. It's like he's shaking him awake. Wake
up.
Right? He was so creative in his teaching
techniques
So creative in how he brought people,
by the will of Allah
And where,
you know, where we are as as human
beings, where we are as Muslims,
Islam was at the forefront of academic creativity
that stemmed from the knowledge of Allah
and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam's sunnah. We
were the ones who, you know, honed and
shaped
science and technology and the arts and business
and and legal,
representations.
We're the ones who
formalize the the legal proceedings that until now
are practiced, and the jury systems,
all of this came,
about from our innovative, creative spirit as Muslims.
We're not talking about innovative in a religious
perspective
of that which is condemnable. We're talking about
what is innovative
in pursuing
and expanding
the horizons of ourselves and our communities to
that which is pleasing Allah
in conformity to the precedents
and the precedent of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam's tradition in sunnah. Peace and blessings
be upon him.
Finally,
Elm,
allows us to connect
and to communicate.
And there's so much more that could be
said, but, you know, we'll end with these
7.
Knowledge is really about connection.
You know? It's either you know, the prophet
said, the world has a curse upon it,
meaning the curse of this world is whatever
you consume of it is forfeit. It's finished.
Halas.
You know,
clothing you bought, wore, and then it became
ripped and tattered. It's it's recycled back. It's
done.
There's nothing more. It's it's that's the curse
of the world, that whatever you have and
you've used it, time,
energy, wealth,
it can no longer be recouped.
But there's 4 things that don't have that
curse.
The the the study of knowledge the
scholar,
and the one who has come to seek
knowledge.
Four things.
Knowledge the knowledgeable,
those who are in the pursuit of knowledge,
those who are
remembering of Allah, anything that makes you remember
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and what assists in
that remembrance,
you know, the fulfillment. All of those are
things that are protected from that curse. They
can can can continue to multiply.
So that which I,
gain in knowledge, it doesn't stay in the
same shape and size. It becomes expensive,
and it's communicated to the next generation.
You know, the prophet said,
That this knowledge is conveyed from 1 generation
to the next by the most noble and
honorable people.
May Allah make you and I of them.
As a parent, as a father, you want
to be
the, you know, the one that your, you
know, your your son or daughter
says,
my father taught me, my mother taught
me. Right? That, you know,
you know, Allah have mercy upon them,
came out of Bayana,
as as they reared us and and and
uplifted us when we were young. So it
becomes a connection and a a connection even
to those who are not yet born into
the world.
You become a connection for a future generation.
You become a connection
in the transmission
of the oral tradition of the Quran, of
the knowledge of the prophet, sallaihi sallam.
And because of that, you become a facilitator
of good and a builder of bridges and
a conduit of good into other people's lives
that continues to earn you reward even after
you've departed.
And I end with that beautiful hadith of
the prophet,
you know, when one of us passes away,
in your deeds are, you know, come to
an end except from 3 things.
And all of them are related to,
the knowledge and and the
aspect of it.
Knowledge that you left, that people continue to
pursue it because it is a connection and
a communication
of that which goes beyond. So I wanted
to share those, small insights about the the
virtue and and the and the the blessing
and the elevation of knowledge. May Allah
grant you and I the of
being as an imam said.
It's what brings change.
It is what causes you to put it
into practice. May Allah make you and I
of them
we ask Allah
to bless us with knowledge that is a
benefit
and with
a body that is resilient
and with a heart that is capable of
humbling itself
to him.
Shai Kay, are you okay for at least
a few questions inshallah?
There are some questions from Orpahia Bismillah.
So there's a question here that says, as
a Muslim, is it okay to read and
apply the lessons from secular
or self development books? So or should we
only focus on reading books that has Islamic
elements to it?
So
those those kind of questions are, a little
bit strange,
in the sense that, you know, I I
don't know what is in the mind of
the the questioner. So I'm just gonna take
a very general perspective.
Truth is not known on account of, you
know, the the individual.
It's on the merit of what the substance
of the
fraudulent of it or the aspects of it
that are questionable,
then it is better for you to depart
from it or to have a guided reading
of it.
And I would always suggest,
that we do read prolifically,
learn prolifically,
but guided reading is more important than an
isolated
matter of reading.
And I don't want to give a a
carte blanche where I just say, no. No.
No. Don't read. And, certainly, I don't wanna
say read everything
because there are certain things that are written,
that are written from a perspective that is
not holistic, that is not,
in in the interest of somebody who is
a beginner. And, you know, there are topics
that sometimes we because there is access to
greater and greater,
amounts of information,
that it can take us out of our
depth and and and not because we read
something that we actually understand its context.
So what I would do is is stick
with elemental
shoes that are related to our self interest
and self benefit, and do take advice about
particular things, not just in their generalities.
Right. JazakAllah Khanshek, another question here says, as
Allah
grants us better insights and actions through the
gained knowledge, how do we avoid the pitfall
of worse than adab and attributing the ilm
to ourselves?
Yani,
I don't want people to overthink. Right? Sometimes
we we are so self critical.
You know? Masha,
keep going for knowledge, and may Allah bless
you with greater edeb, and may Allah bless
you, my dear sister,
with greater practice of that knowledge.
Don't let it be a limitation. It is
better to know than not know.
It is better to see than to remain,
inattentive.
It is better to have heard than not
to have,
listened in the first place. So I would
say,
don't let it be a barrier to wanting
to discover more and more. Certain certainly, you
do want intellectual humility,
and, certainly, you don't want to be of
those who is,
meaning you put your chest out. You you
squeeze yourself into places
and into arguments and into statements,
that have no benefit. And the prophet
would warn
about reading the Quran
in a way where you are trying to
just theorize it in your own way. The
they they would say, and it stems from
different statements of the the
the the scholars of the past, that the
one who reads the Quran,
Quran, and says about the Quran,
with his own, you know, ramblings, his
own mind's shenanigans.
They are wrong even if what they thought
was correct
because the process is wrong.
The the getting to a place where you
said something correct,
you know, when we were younger, you do
a math problem and just say you got
the right answer at the end, but the
process and and the system, that got you
there was wrong. Your teacher marks it wrong,
even, but I got 5 at the end.
But that's not the point.
How you came about it was wrong. It
may be that you came to 5 this
time, but in any other instance, you're gonna
do the same thing, and you're gonna get
the wrong answer. So you have to go
through that formal process and have that intellectual
humility.
And Shaikh, Insha'Allah, last question.
It says here,
touching on the last 10 days of Ramadan.
Is it a better Ibadah to learn knowledge
on the last 10 days of Ramadan?
So,
it depends what you mean knowledge. Knowledge is
a very expensive thing. So if you mean
that I'm going to read the Quran with
better tajweed, I'm gonna sit with a teacher
who recites it with me. That's the sunnah
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam with
Jibreel.
He sat with Jibril, and he formally recited
the Quran and re you know,
reestablish
that connection
with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. But if you're
going to dedicate,
aspects of your time where I'm just gonna,
you know, listen to lectures or watch YouTube
videos or something, I would say you want
to have a balance
and and not put all of your effort
into one thing or another.
There are different selections
of, great, merits of reward and for a
reason.
Wants you and I to have a plethora
of opportunities. It's an open buffet.
It's an open I know you're fasting.
Right? There's so much variety.
Right? There's so many things that you can
choose from. So take and and choose and
and and consume
from the bounty and the
of,
you know, the the generosity
of Allah.
There's time for your, there's time for the
Quran, there's time for hadith, there's time for
Sheikh Umer Suleiman's, why me, there's time for,
you know, all that. There's something for everyone.
But don't limit it,
in that perspective,
And may Allah
grant you an I Tawfee, Khayir, and Baraka.
May Allah bless you with,
the delight of the Quran and the sunnah,
and may Allah enrich your fasting, and may
Allah allow you to remember us in your
dua as you break
it.
I know you have to, catch up on
your Fudr Chef in Malaysia.
Inshallah, we'll see you very soon on March
30 on the topic of repair. Inshallah.
Alright, guys. That was an amazing
7 points on how knowledge can trans transform
our lives. So, inshallah, we'll jump into our
daily anchor as mentioned by Shaikh Amar,
Let me just check it. Shaikh Shaikha
is
here.
I would like to check
her. K.
I can see her name on the participants.
For some reason, I was not able to
unmute myself.
Oh, I'm so sorry for that. Sure. No
worries.
How how are you doing?
How are you, Shaifa?
Alright. So we can us. Yes. Thank you.
Alright.
That was an amazing session,
about
the so many gems
about
the benefits of
irl, the etiquette,
alhamdulillah.
Irl
is the opposite of jahal.
Alright. Jahal is ignorance and is
knowledge, to know.
It is to become acquainted
with something.
Sometimes the word is used synonymously
with al
yaqeen as in what we discussed yesterday,
to
certainly
know something, to truly know something.
And it's used in many different ways, and
InshaAllah, I'll mention a few more.
Allah
tells us in Surah Al Nahal, ayah number
78,
that That Allah brought you out from the
wombs of your mothers while you knew nothing.
And Allah
made for you
hearing
and vision and hearts
La'alakuntashkurun
in order that you may be grateful.
Meaning when you were born, you didn't know
anything, but Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala equipped you
with different tools, with different means with which
you could learn.
And we learn different types
of ulum as we go through life. The
ulama say that there are
3
types of ilm, 3 types of knowledge.
The first type of knowledge is that which
is nefer, that which is beneficial. It is
useful.
Why? Because a person is able to,
you know,
to apply it.
It removes doubts. It brings them,
clarity.
It helps them grow.
And
we learned about all the different benefits of
knowledge. So this is,
and this is essentially
knowledge of the religion.
You know, who is Allah? Who is the
messenger of Allah Sallallahu alaihi wasallam?
How do I recite the Quran? How do
I pray? How do I
fast? How should I think about, you know,
disturbing events that I witness happening around the
world?
This is all ilmun nafir
beneficial knowledge,
because it benefits you in this world, and
it will also benefit you in the hereafter.
And then there is and and part of
Erman Nafir is also,
worldly knowledge.
Alright? It's not just religious knowledge. It is
also worldly knowledge,
which helps a person,
you know, do things that are
good and useful.
Like, for example, if you know
how to prepare your breakfast, you're not dependent
on other people.
Right? You're able to take care of yourself.
If you know how to drive,
then you are able to go places.
Right? If you know how to calculate, how
to add, how to subtract,
how to do basic multiplication or advanced calculus
and things like that, then this is something
that helps you,
manage your finances.
Maybe with an advanced degree, you're able to
get a, you know, job. And with that,
you are able to earn an income,
right? So Ilmun Nafir can be worldly or
religious,
and it is something that helps a person
live a,
you know, useful,
good life in which they're not dependent on
others, rather they're able to bring benefit to
those around them.
And of course, with this knowledge, they're able
to succeed
in the afterlife.
So this is the first type of knowledge,
ril Munafi.
Then the other type of knowledge is ril
Mudar,
and he's such knowledge, which is actually
harmful.
It is actually
dangerous.
Why?
Because
it
it harms a person's
dunya
or their akhirah.
It harms a person's duniya.
Like, for example, if a person learns how
to commit,
cybercrimes,
right,
they they they could be very good at
it. But what are they doing? They're committing
crime.
Right? If a person learns how to,
you know, commit financial crime
again, it's it's a knowledge, it's a skill.
Right? But it is something harmful.
If a person
learns
how to do magic,
okay,
this again is going to ruin their their
din, their.
Alright?
So the there's also harmful
knowledge that harms a person's duniya and.
And then the 3rd type of knowledge
is knowledge that is useless.
It's neither beneficial
nor is it harmful.
It's just useless.
Why is it useless?
Because a person is not able to
apply it. A person is not able to,
you know,
use it for anything.
Alright? It neither benefits them nor does it
harm them. So we should ask Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala
for knowledge that is
that is
beneficial,
both worldly
and religious.
Now
we see that it is because of that
Allah
granted virtue to Adam
over the rest of the creation.
Right? Allah
taught Adam
all the different names.
And then after that, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
asked the angels that you tell me the
names of these things, and they weren't able
to because they didn't have that knowledge.
So
then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told Adam
to tell the angels
the names of the things, that Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala had had given him knowledge about.
So, and then Allah
told the angels to make sajdah to Adam.
So it is because
of
that humans
have virtue,
alright,
over the rest of the creation.
And
if you think about it, even among animals
okay. This is so interesting. Even among animals,
it is because of
rim
that the hunt of an animal
becomes lawful for us.
Okay?
In Zudul Ma'ida,
Allah
mentions in detail,
the laws related
to halal food,
and part of that is,
you know, versus related to hunting. They need
to talk about hunting.
Alright? And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions
the hunt of
the animals
whom you have trained.
So if you have
hunting dogs
and you have trained them
and you release
those dogs,
alright, and you mentioned the name of Allah
as you release them,
and those dogs
catch, you know, a deer, for example,
even if the deer dies,
you're actually allowed to eat it.
Why?
Because it is the hunt
of an animal that has been trained.
So knowledge,
really, it it sets
its people
apart from the rest.
Now now we see in the Quran that
sometimes the word
is also used as the opposite of Hawa.
Alright? Hawa
as in people's desires, what they want to
do, what they think is best.
And in opposition to that is their ilm,
the divine,
knowledge or, or revelation that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala has, has revealed for mankind for their
guidance.
So Allah
tells his messenger
that
That if you were to follow their desires
after
knowledge has come to you, then you would
be at the wrongdoers.
So one way of living is that you
follow
desire, what you feel like, what you think,
or people's desires, their wishes, their trends.
Alright?
And the other is that you follow
the knowledge that Allah
has revealed.
And this way of life is different,
and it is this knowledge which Allah
instructed his messenger
to pray for increase in.
Right? That say, oh my lord, increase me
in knowledge.
It is this knowledge
which Allah
instructed Musa alaihis salam to,
increase in by going to,
Khadr.
Right? So Musa alaihi salaam
went to Khadr, and he asked him,
may I follow you,
so that you can teach me
some of,
the the knowledge that you have? And it
is because of
because of which Allah chose
Balut
as king over others.
Right? So it is because of
that someone has virtue.
Why? Because,
as we learned, it it transforms a person
when it is applied
and it is benefited from.
And, of course, the source of all is
Allah.
Right?
And as human beings, no matter how much
knowledge we have,
you know, collectively,
all of that is what?
Compared to the knowledge of Allah, it is
like
the drop of water
that goes in the beak of a bird
compared to an entire lake or ocean.
And what we know
is truly very, very little
compared to what Allah
knows. And this is why with 'ilm, there
must always, always be a humility,
and there must always be a yearning
to increase
in Irin and Amal,
for which we should ask Allah
for,
continuously.
So let's hear from you now. Let's take
reflections.
Masha'Allah. You all have been so good,
with your reflections.
I'm looking forward to hear from you. Bismillah.
Go ahead. And and remember,
keep the reflections
to the point. Inshallah,
only reflections, no questions.
Go ahead, Bismillah.
Laila? Right.
Bismillah, first on the list is sister Laila.
Please unmute yourself.
Hello. I too. Ashtala, how are you today?
It was a long night today. I've been
here since,
the, you know, session we had earlier and
now here.
I'm if you don't mind, I would like
to I'd like to reflect,
like, from earlier as well today, if that's
not a problem.
So As long as it's relevant to the
topic, go ahead. Yes. So since you saw
earlier mentioned that how modeling is very important
aspect, and I think so that is, we
are leaving the point that we also as
even though we are married right now, we
need to get the knowledge
and be able to implement that in our
life
and model that for our children rather than
expect taking the generation to just, you know,
asking them to learn and implement them the
way our parents did, which, you know, which
led to us learning so late in our
life when we got conscious.
You know, we were not at 13 years
old. We were not worried about learning Islam
because our parents weren't worried. They were just
wanting us to read Quran and all that.
But
now I realize that learning knowledge is very
important to be able to model so that
they can learn from a very early age
rather than us being worried about them learning.
So
I think so are the this was a
very important aspect of,
Islam that we, neglect a lot is knowledge
and the role models we've come after getting
the knowledge. Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah.
Marco, Vicky.
Alright. Next on the list is sister Razan.
Please unmute yourself.
Sister Rosanne?
The,
my reflection is that
the more knowledge you have, the more benefit
the others.
Yep. More knowledge you have, the more
benefit you can bring to others. Very
good.
We have sister Aisha
Gomda.
Please take unmute yourself.
So the reflection I have today is that
I hope that I'll be able with the
knowledge that I've been gaining
from
the beginning till now, I'll be able to
be intentional about the
or the training that I'll give to my
children.
And then I've come to learn that there's
a lot more that I don't know that
I need to learn about my religion.
And I believe that with this
platform, I'll be able to learn more and
be able to impact more.
Right. And When I'm gonna person just one
thing I wanna add here. When you're learning,
your intention should not be that, okay. I
wanna learn so that I can teach.
Okay?
Learning is not just for the purpose of
conveying.
Learning is for the purpose of practice.
Alright?
And because you bring it to in into
your own life and you see the benefit
of it, of course, you want to pass
it on as well.
The primary
goal should be
to bring it into action.
Inshallah.
Inshallah, beautiful. Primary
goal is to gain a to put it
into action. We have sister Khadija.
Please unmute yourself.
My name is Hadija Zahir. I'm from Gujarat,
Pakistan.
I'm a medical student right now in my
final year. And in 2nd, 3rd year, I
just got really confused that am I consuming
the right knowledge, the world knowledge? And then
I came across, Adi, in which
Allah says that, oh, I was sick, and
you you did not visit me.
And then,
man says that,
how can you be civil? You're the lord
of the world. And Allah says that my
servant was sick, and had you visited him,
you would have found me there. And then
so I realized that,
as a doctor, I'm able
to empathize with so many patients per day.
And not only just empathize with them, but
also I'm able to treat them. So that
is really
good, worthy knowledge as you call that. Is
not just religious knowledge, but it is also
worthy knowledge. Mhmm. Thank
Right.
We have sister Jan Janath Zayed.
Sister.
Thanks.
For me, I'll
I'll keep it short. Like, a lot of
us know a lot of duas.
From childhood we are supposed to memorize Quran,
but many of us do not know the
meaning behind it. So from today's holy experience,
it would be that we should
gain the knowledge, the meaning behind it, and
only then we can be a full circle
in order to know the message of Allah.
Yeah.
Now we have sister
Afifa,
Afifa Darabuddin.
I want to share that Aisha Radha Anha,
said that the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasalam,
his character was the Quran,
and it also reminds me of his narration
of the best of you are those who
learn the Quran and teach it.
And I was thinking about teaching,
that the teaching could be his character. Perhaps
he taught people through his manners and his
behavior and his character.
Yeah. He taught through his character, through his,
interactions.
And he he taught in many different ways,
not just one way.
For sharing.
Sister Ligga?
I think, please unmute yourself.
Sorry.
Oh, assalamu alaikum, everybody.
So from today's session, I what struck to
me was when, Imam Yahaya was mentioning about
how can knowledge be
transformative.
The last point, actually,
he mentioned he increases connection to future generation
and impacted me because my parents who passed
down these duas and everything to me, they
did not have Internet connection or
these amazing books stuff. They only had Arabic
version of Quran and some knowledgeable people in
the
country. So I feel
this itself motivates me to learn more. I
have Internet. I have you all. I have
these sessions. So
just want to say this really impacted me
to learn more.
Thank you.
Now we have
Hannah, sister Hannah
Ali.
Yes. Salaam.
I just wanted to say, what Ustada said
about,
whosoever has a must always always
be
humble as well. This is such an important
point
because I feel and
the more knowledge people gain, especially about religion,
they become scholars. I feel like they
they have this thing about them where they
would, like, maybe sometimes belittle other people or
think like they are
way more superior.
And,
so I think it's so important so important,
especially especially for our religious scholars
to be very humble,
while in their teachings
and
not be so harsh with people around them.
So I just really love this point too.
I think those are on the list already,
So do you have any last
words or students before Yeah. I just you
go on to a couple of duas related
to knowledge, and then Insha'Allah will conclude with
that.
We learned in a hadith that the prophet
used to pray
in his
Fajr prayer, and before he would say the
salam, he would make dua.
That, oh Allah, I ask you for beneficial
knowledge,
for sustenance that is pure,
and for
actions
deeds that are accepted by you.
What a beautiful Dua to make right at
the beginning of the day
that O Allah, allow me to learn something
that will benefit me. Allow me to earn
something that will be pure and lawful
and beneficial for me, and allow me to
do those deeds which will be accepted by
you.
There's another ma'am.
There's another
That oh Allah,
benefit me with what You have taught me.
Meaning whatever that I have learned so far,
allow me to benefit from that.
Wa'alimni
mayanfa'awni,
and teach me what will benefit me.
Meaning whatever I don't know that is beneficial
for me, allow me to learn that.
And provide me with knowledge,
which you will benefit me with. Meaning in
the future also,
continue to
provide me with knowledge that will continue to
benefit me. And remember, the real benefit of
is that it turns into action. So when
you're asking Allah for beneficial knowledge, you're asking
Allah for the ability to
to understand, to remember, and implement that knowledge
as well.
So those are beautiful duas that we should,
inshallah, take note of. Inshallah.
Welcome.
Alright.
Alright.
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