alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala
rasulillah Salam alaikum Quran weekly a
very short bit of advice specifically
geared towards our young brothers and
sisters that are very quickly at
attaining a lot of knowledge and are up
and coming in the community and are
becoming contributors to the community
specifically this advice is in regards
to keeping your humility and keeping
Europe specifically your intellectual
humility Allah so just as folk wouldn't
leave the argument Helene I love
everyone who has knowledge is someone
who has more and of course above all
others it is a la Soprano Matata you
know when I was a lot younger and I
would learn something in a speech and
I'm all my friends you know we'd go to
attend a program we learn something we
take some notes we feel like we know
this stuff and then we can debate others
about this stuff and here go talk to
someone that guy doesn't even understand
doesn't he know this ayah this hadith
this evidence this proof this one the
scholar said this that scholar said that
you've got all these references in your
head and you're using them to throw them
like you know like ping-pong balls at
the enemy right you're shooting at the
enemy with these evidences and it seems
like you're only learning this stuff so
you can out someone you know outdo
someone else in debate and to show them
up in debate so your your your knowledge
your requiring is not to add to your
humility but it's to take away your
humility and this is the way of the
non-believer
you know the non-believer acquires in
education to put a title next to their
name dr. so-and-so PhD so-and-so
professor so-and-so and this knowledge
you know they'll before they even say
their name they say their title so you
better know I have more knowledge than
you but the knowledge of Deen however
it's supposed to be something the more
you have the more it humbles you the
more it humbles you but if you have
knowledge and the more knowledge you
have the more judgmental you're becoming
the more you like this one's deviant and
that scholar was wrong and this one was
out of line and this and that and the
other how much have you studied compared
to them that you can pass commentary
that you can just talk about them like
that not just about them and the Imam in
your community or elders in your
community if you don't agree with
something they did first of all you are
in no position to pass a fatwa on them
you have no qualifications I am I'm a
beginner student wallahi I don't say
this out of artificial
humility I'm a beginner student of the
Quran I have to study 2829 toughest even
for a single ayah to try to get some
understanding of what the IRS saying and
me personally when it comes to a hadith
I shut my mouth
why because I know I'm not qualified to
figure this stuff out
there is so much scholarship involved in
deriving conclusions from a hadith of
the Prophet sallallahu senem from the
issues of his nod to the issues of the
context in which it was said to the
issue of how it was understood by the
consensus of the Companions about the
allahu anhu ajma'in to the issue of how
it was understood by the greatest folk
AHA of this Deen
there are several complex issues here
and for you to just pick up the body and
read a translation of a hadith and then
start arguing with someone this is a
disservice to the Sunna of the Prophet I
sat down and second of all you don't
even understand the language you're just
reading spewing it off of a translation
how dare you students come to a mat
Mushaf rahim allah they come to him we
wanna learn hadith from you we wanna
learn how to eat for me you know what he
says and these of course this
conversation is happening in arabic he
says in the mouth Charla yeah Holly but
I didn't the thing that scares me the
Tollywood the thing that scares me the
most is a student of knowledge and let
let me autonomy enough wa the one who
didn't even learn proper syntax deep
understanding of grammar and who's
saying this Asif Ali who spent twenty
thousand Oh a third of his wealth he
spent learning the Arabic language and
the other two-thirds learning hadith and
by the end of it he said I wish I spent
my other two thirds that I spent on
hadith even that on Arabic that's how
concerned he is about deepening his
knowledge of this rich rich rich
language just because you've taken two
courses in some book on Arabic studies
for nowadays and you've attended a
weekly Holika on some grammar you are
not qualified to be commenting on a
hadith you are not you and I am not and
you're not this is the work of more have
the thorn and scholars to comment on it
and for you to read an article or read a
paper and read some excerpt that you
barely understand you don't even know
what those terms mean and for you to
spew it out against someone else it's
it's absurd and it's a disservice to the
Sunnah of the Prophet sallallaahu are
you silent you have to be careful when
you speak on his behalf
you have to be very careful if you don't
know your stuff and I'm telling you you
think you know your stuff but you
you don't humble yourself to the people
who have knowledge you know first value
and addicted people ask the people of
remembrance the people of knowledge and
confirm that on the moon if you yourself
don't know you know I didn't finish that
quarter for my machete I'll just share
that with you and I'm done he says I
love the limit are dumb enough well and
you're full of e---coli he sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam and Cathy valium Oh Tom
million he says I fear for the student
who doesn't study Arabic deeply and this
is just one of many conditions of
studying the sunlight Arabic is just one
of many conditions he says specifically
only about Arabic even if you don't even
free fulfill this I fear I will teach
you her death and you will you will fall
victim to the warning of the prophet
sallallaahu - you know when he said
whoever makes a lie against me on
perfect purpose has guaranteed himself a
place in hellfire he was scared to teach
people a hadith because he knew these
guys these Arabs there are Arabs and
they knew Arabic and he says no you
don't know her but you don't know enough
I can't teach you how to you subhanAllah
and here we are in our times they're
googling a hadith in English and you
don't know the first thing about what a
shot of a hadith is or what the
historical context you know nothing
about it
and you feel qualified to speak on
behalf of the Sun this is an act of
arrogance not an act of service to the
Dean don't delude yourself I last
comment about this is very important
you're young right now and when you're
young the world is black and white
everything is very clear to you how can
people disagree with me I have all the
knowledge in the world when you get a
little bit older hopefully you'll mature
a little and realize how stupid was I
when I was that young how stupid when I
was like when I used to think I know
this stuff when I don't get before you
hit the brick wall and it's too late and
then you realize it after you've done a
lot of damage to others and yourself
realize that now realize that don't fall
into the trap of others who've gone down
this road and learn things the hard way
and that's it includes myself I used to
be like that too
I used to think that I know some things
and when I actually started learning
from people of knowledge cherylin man I
don't know what I'm talking about when
it comes to certain things I should just
shut my mouth people ask me a question
about fit or a hadith I shut my mouth I
say I don't know I'm sorry
I'm not
if they ask me a question about Cortana
I say I'll look it up for you I'll see
what the scholars have said let me see
what other what other things have been
said let me get some research for you
but I can't you know at least I'm some I
have some ability to do some research
with Quran when it comes to the other
topics I cannot open my mouth including
issues in theology you can study
theology with a scholar but if you think
you're qualified to be debating theology
with someone think again
think again every single science of this
beam has prerequisites you have not met
you just haven't met them if you're
serious about learning be serious about
learning if you're only learning to
debate with others check yourself
because you can hide that from everybody
else you cannot hide your arrogance from
Allah somebody's selling liquor in a
liquor store and they're doing Haram and
their Haram is open and manifest and we
don't agree with it but you have
arrogance inside your heart and that is
also unacceptable to Allah in the
smallest bit in the smallest bit so you
can look at that person who sells liquor
and say how can you do that how can you
do such a disservice to Allah how can
you call himself a Muslim well you look
inside yourself too if you've got an ego
problem and if that ego problem is
making you intellectually arrogant and
you think you're just learning this Deen
to argue and debate others and be
condescending to others check yourself
really watch yourself I know I should
stop now but I can't help myself one
last comment don't speak about other
scholars don't speak about them if you
disagree with something they said the
people of knowledge they make draw for
them and then they disagree with them
that's what they do because they don't
know where they stand with a lot they
don't know you don't know when you're
talking about a scholar who already
passed away
what his rank is with Allah and what
forget what sins of his or mistakes of
his genuine mistakes of his Allah has
already forgiven and you don't even have
to earn mistakes you think their
mistakes
you think their mistakes how dare you
talk about someone like that you know
these are these are slaves of Allah
Allah wants us to be humble to other
believers somebody says Salam to you
that is enough for you to accept that
they are Muslim who a Muslim you know
well that the only man on PA alaikum
salam' i last a minute don't say that
someone who comes to you and says Salam
that you're not a believer and today
somebody says Salam to you either I
don't know this guy probably deviant I
don't even know if I should return this
Salam
I should pray next to him or you know
respond to his supplication or you know
let him lead me in prayer because I
don't really know if he's Muslim or not
you become that deluded you become that
confused me lares doesn't make us
intellectually humble and Allah has a
will give us our scholars the strength
to teach that intellectual humility to
the people Millar's Origen make us all
sincere genuine genuine students of
knowledge and learn teach us when to
shut our mouths when to watch our tongue
and to be humble to us and more
importantly to the deen of islam
barakallahu li walakum wa-salaamu
alaikum our table I must