Concentration is critical

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers.
Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions.
Peace be upon them all.
And after that, my dear brothers and sisters,
there is a question that I keep getting asked every once in a while
about whether I am willing to,
and if I am not willing to, then why I am not willing to,
present my lectures in shorter forms.
So people ask me,
can you,
you know,
whatever you have been, you are trying to teach,
can you do this in five minutes?
Or can you do it in, you know, something like this,
which is
a very short time.
And I have always
resisted that.
I've always said no.
Now,
I want to address that
and try and explain
mostly for
my
friends who ask me this question.
I know they're very sincere people.
So it's really
in honour of their sincerity that I want to
that I want to make this even
stronger.
So,
it's not a disclaimer,
but it's something that I want to
state.
And my
answer to them is as follows.
Which is,
take the,
as we always say,
you know,
the best example is the
example of
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And
the best example is the example of
the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And the example of
his,
those who followed him in Exodus.
So let me give you
a couple of examples.
Take for example,
Abu Hurairah Radiyallahu Anhu.
Abu Hurairah Radiyallahu Anhu used to,
he said,
somebody asked him,
they said,
how is it that you have,
you have quoted so many hadiths,
whereas Abu Hurairah Radiyallahu Anhu and others who have,
who were and who spent far longer with Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
have not quoted that many hadiths.
So Abu Hurairah Radiyallahu Anhu,
now he's not criticizing Abu Hurairah Radiyallahu Anhu,
but generally speaking,
he said that while you people,
meaning he's talking to whoever asked that question,
he said,
while you people were busy in the markets
and in earning livings and in doing business,
I used to spend that time with Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He said,
I used to spend so much time with him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
that I would not even have time to eat.
And there were times when I would fall down
and I would faint.
I would faint with exhaustion and with hunger.
And people thought that I was having an epileptic fit.
And they would,
those days the sort of cure or antidote to this epileptic fits
was that people used to,
you used to make them smell leather sandals.
So they would hold up,
you know,
their slippers under his nose.
And he said,
people didn't realize that the reason I fell down
was not because of epilepsy,
but because of hunger.
And the reason I was so hungry,
to the point of starvation,
to the point of literally falling down,
was because I
spent all that time with Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Second example.
Imam Qi gur самой Larif
was sent by his mother
small little kid.
So he
came and Imam Malik
had a
system where he would
give dars of hadith
muwatta
between Asr
and Maghrib in the
courtyard of the masjid
and Nabi Muhammad Sharif
and then after the
Salat of
Maghrib Salat, he would give
the dars inside
the masjid between
Maghrib and Nisha. So two
sessions, not ten
minute beats, two sessions.
So the two
of them together were
a couple of hours.
Maybe more than that.
The time between Asr and Maghrib
in the
Hijaz is
a long time. And then between
Maghrib and Nisha. So these dars
he used to give. So now
he comes there, he starts
the dars and this little kid
less than ten years old is
sitting right in front
at his feet. And
as Imam Malik is speaking
he notices that this little
kid is doodling
in the sand with his index finger.
So because
there was no carpets and stuff. So he
would sit on the sand. And
this little kid is
with his finger, he seems to be
doodling, making little patterns.