Listen "Adab before Ilm"

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Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the honorable prophets and messengers.
Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions.
Many thanks and blessings.
From now on, my brothers and sisters,
one of the...
Alhamdulillah, we are living in times where
there is a lot of interest in Islam.
I have lots of young
friends of mine, some students, some
not students, but people who are
who I know
in many countries, who are very interested in Islam.
Also, similarly, people who
are interested in... therefore, this interest in Islam,
for a lot of them, it's... it translates into,
you know, harakas and
conferences and so on and so forth.
Of course, lots of stuff on
social media and so on. So people are
interested in the deen.
But there are two... simultaneously...
two problems that I find
which are... which seem to go hand in hand.
The first problem is that, thanks to the deen, we are able to go to our home.
Thanks to the ease with which information...
I want you to distinguish between information and knowledge.
Between
malumaat and ilm.
Information and knowledge.
I want you to distinguish between these two things.
They're very, very important.
So,
the one thing is that, because information is easily accessible,
easily available,
whether it is multiple translations and
tafaseer of the Quran al-Kareem,
whether it is the siyasita or other books of hadith,
whether it is reference material,
you go to
chat GPT or you go and do any kind of a search,
and you put a prompt and it gets you information from all over the place.
So, because there is this ease
of accessing information, there seems to be
a loss of the awe
and majesty of the knowledge.
And people I see treat the knowledge of the Kitab of Allah
and the teachings of Muhammad Rasulullah
like they treat any other kind of knowledge.
So, the awe and the majesty of this knowledge, that this is Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Himself
speaking, that awe and majesty seems to take a backstage and may Allah have mercy in the
case of some people, it disappears.
So, therefore, for example, when we hear the stories of the importance of adab, the importance
of the manners, the methodology of preparing yourself to receive the knowledge.
The famous story of Imam Malik bin Anas , whose mother used to
.
She used to tie a turban on his head for him to go to learn with Rabia Turai, Rahatul Ali,
who was his teacher.
And his mother used to tell him, learn from the adab of Rabia before you take from his
knowledge.
Take from his adab before you take from his knowledge.
And this is when Imam Malik was a little boy and his mother used to take him, they say
she would take him for, in time for Salatul Fajr to the masjid, the masjid of the Nabi
wa Sharif.
And she would leave him there all dressed up.
So, imagine he's being woken up before the time of Fajr and then he is being prepared
by his mother.
And then she takes him there, walks him there, leaves him there.
He is in the masjid of the Nabi wa Sharif immediately after Salatul Fajr, he is there
in the class of Rabia Turai.
And he is there in the class of Rabia Turai.
And he is there in the class of Rabia Turai until the time for Zuhar and then after Salatul
Zuhar, his mother would pick him up and bring him home.
Now, I don't know whether there was a breakfast program at that time or what, or whether this
little boy didn't even eat any food all the way until Zuhar.
And that's the time when he would have gone home and he would have had a meal.
These are things to think about and say that today people walk around with buckets in their
hands, what amounts to buckets, saying that they get dehydrated, unless they drink this
gazelle down, this liters and liters and liters of water.
You need to have food like little babies every hour.
But whereas these people,