 In this video, I will tell you why you have learned Arabic language, yet you don't understand the scholarly works, the books of the scholars of the Ulema, Ibn al-Qayyim, and Sheikh An-Islam, etc, etc, amongst the salafi and amongst many of the scholarly books. Salaam alaikum wa rahmatullahi shabrata Muhammad al-Andalusi, founder of Andalusi Institute.com. The other day, I posted on my Instagram, which by the way, follow me around here, I posted, asked me a question, little poll, and somebody said, please advise, I learned the book of the Medina books and studied this, studied that, but still can't understand Ibn al-Qayyim's books. And I didn't respond, I didn't have time, so if the brother or sister is watching this, I apologize in advance, or actually not in advance, I apologize late. But yeah, I thought that because of the importance of the subject, I would just make a YouTube video about it. Now, this is very simple to understand. What happens is that if you are not educated in a particular field, if you read about that field, even if you are fluent in the language of that particular field, or the thing that you are reading about, you still won't understand the subject you are reading. So it happens the same to students who learn the Arabic language, or go over the Medina books, or Al-Arabi ibn Adiq, whatever it might be. And as a side note, I want to remind you that going over the Medina books, going over Al-Arabi ibn Adiq, it doesn't mean you have to learn the Arabic language. It is a good, very solid start, depending on how the teacher is teaching you as well, but you shouldn't consider that as my Arabic studies are done here. I can jump into the next thing. What I'm trying to say with this is that even though it's a good foundation, it doesn't make sense that you then go to, for example, a book of ibn al-Qayyim in a particular field, whether it's fiqh, whatever field that you haven't studied, the small mutun, the small foundational books that the ulama had written for the students to slowly and gradually get educated in that particular field. First, if you haven't gone over those books, then you definitely won't understand those particular subjects. And you see these many times in debates between a Muslim and a non-Muslim, and the non-Muslim is trying to attack Islam, or he's just confused, and you can see it from the matters that he is concerned about. Like, for example, they might read in the Qur'an, and we have descended the Qur'an. And they might say, you see, this muta'ara, this contradictory to what Allah says in Qur'an, I am the only one. How can you say we? Then that means that you're giving credit to the trinity of the Christians. No, no, no, calm down. You first need to understand that in the Arabic language, inna, and referring to yourself as a group, there are two types of plurals. There is the plural of numbers and the plural of respects, such as many different other languages, like French. You say, como tale vous, even though you speak into one person, but vous refers to you as in group of people. So what I'm trying to say is that you will want to understand one subject, or you will think that you understand one subject. But there is all of these other little fields and all of these other little points that you need to understand in order for you to understand this main point. The same happens when you finish learning the Arabic language. You go over the Medina books, you go over the Arabic and then, boom, you want to go ahead and jump into the Joseph's works. Or Ibn Qayyim's words, Sheikh Ali Sermit, they will talk about, it's not that you don't know Arabic. It's not that you're not strong in Arabic. It's that you are not educated in that field yet. You are not educated enough in that field so you don't understand. And it might be as well that your Arabic is weak. It might be that as well, but many times it happens that you, not only you are weak in the Arabic language, but at the same time you are not strong and you are not educated in that particular field you are reading about. And to conclude this video, I will give you guys an example. As you can see on screen right now, this text says, abstract. The size grain hypothesis predicts that environmental rugosity results in positive allometric scaling of leg length on body length because of changes in locomotion costs. The scaling of leg length and body length in ants was examined using phylogenetic independent contrast method. You guys get the point. We are reading something that we don't know is in English. And most of you guys who are watching this are fluent in your native language is the English language. But we are reading this and we are not educated in the subject of this particular text. Therefore, we don't understand what the text is talking about. Just because it's not the language barrier here, but it's the subject barrier. We are not educated in the particular subject if that makes sense. So don't get frustrated if you don't understand the works, the scholarly works yet. Rather, start by the little books to instruct yourself and to educate yourself in the Deen of al-Islam. Everything needs to be gradual. Start with the small books. And if you are wondering right now, what are the small books? Just look online very simply. Look for example, the advice of Sheikh Al-Hathaymin about this particular field. What books to learn in this particular field to understand? What are the books to learn to understand about usul al-Fiqh? What are the books to learn to understand about mustahlah al-Hadith? What are the books to learn to understand about usul al-Tafsil, etc., with all the different fields of Islamic sciences? And that will give you an understanding of the scholarly works later on. And whoever tries to acquire the knowledge all at once, it will definitely leave him all at once. May Allah be pleased with him and his companions. I'll see you guys on the next one. Let me know in the comments what you guys thought. Assalamu alaikum.