How should you study Islam?

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Auto-generated transcript:In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to God, the Lord of the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers.
Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace and blessings upon him and his family.
And after all this, in response to a question I was asked by one of my very dear friends who is doing his 6-year Alimut course in Madrasa.
And his question was, he said, I have difficulty remembering technical terms, shuraiz, tala'ats, and I have difficulty remembering masail,
and being able to quote them, babatim, quote them extempore, and so on.
And I feel bad because after studying all these years, I still can't get myself,
I can't remember these things.
Now it's of course absolutely understandable, especially with the shuraiz, tala'at,
because the words, the names are in Arabic.
Arabic is not his.
Another point, he has not learnt Arabic itself.
So just a matter of, you know, memorizing that or mugging it up, something.
So my advice to him and myself and anyone else interested.
First and foremost,
look at the Quran.
Look at and examine your niyyah.
Why are you studying this course?
Why have you taken the time and the trouble?
May Allah bless you and put barakah in this and make it easy for you.
Why have you taken the time and the trouble to enroll in a full-time course in Islam, an Alimut course?
Why?
First ask that question.
And if the answer is that I want to become an Alim,
I want to be somebody who will be addressed as Maulana.
Then make istighfa or make tawbah.
And do not go to the next class until your heart is free from this aib,
from this very big sickness.
Continuously make tawbah, right?
It means if you go to the next class,
continuously make tawbah.
Because this is the worst reason to study Islam.
And I'm not saying this by myself.
This is the hadith from Rasulullah ,
where I think if I'm not mistaken, it is Abdullah ibn Mas'ud who quoted this.
And he said that the Prophet said,
do not study Islam for three reasons.
Do not study for three reasons.
One is to argue with the fukaha,
is to argue with the scholars,
is to argue with the jurists.
And the second one,
reason why you should not learn Islam,
is to look good before the sufahaar,
to look good before the fools,
which includes all of us.
People who have little or no knowledge,
who try to pretend to be knowledgeable,
and general, janta, awamunnas.
And the third one he says,
to attract people towards you,
to attract the eyes of people towards you.
Meaning to become popular for Facebook likes and thumbs up and whatever it is.
So here is the Nabi telling us specifically why not to study Islam.
So you say that I'm studying Islam so I can,
you know, in my heart you may not say that,
but that I may be called alim,
I may be addressed as Maulana Fulan bin Fulan,
then that's the worst reason to study Islam.
So I said, if you continue to do that,
may Allah protect us,
you know, we might be answered by Allah swt.
So why should you study then?
First and foremost,
we should study deen,
because it is our dire need.
It is something which is even more important than food and water.
Something which is more important than food and water.
You might say, well, you know,
what's more important than food and water?
I said deen, because,
if I do not get food and water for a certain period of time,
I will die.
That's it.
But if I don't know my deen,
and I live a long life,
because I did not know anything
and I didn't make any effort to learn anything,
and my long life was spent in disobedience of Allah swt,
in rebellion against Allah swt,
in all kinds of stuff,
and I die,
even though I had plenty to eat and drink,
even though I lived in luxury,
the chances are that I might end up in Jahannam.
If Allah does not forgive me.
So, therefore,
knowing deen is the number one important thing
in life for a Muslim.
Far more important than food and water,