 Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen. Wassalaatu wa s-salamu ala Rasulillah, yamma ba'd. In this video we are going to talk about how to successfully complete a lesson. How to go over a lesson and know that you have definitely completed this lesson. There are three main things that we need to focus on to be able to successfully complete a lesson. When they've been doing these three things they are other things. So the first three things, the first one is you need to obviously listen to the lesson. Whether it's the vocabulary lesson, whether it's the essential lessons or you know as we call it in Arabic, you need to listen to those. You need to listen to those as if you were in a real class. Okay, don't listen to it laying down on the bed, you know, before going to sleep. No, actually get up, take a shower, take your best clothes, sit in front of your desk and always advise you to always have a specific place where you only study there. So your brain gets used to that. I know your brain knows that when you go there it's only for studies. Half adab al-mufrad, half, you know, like behave well for yourself and respect the knowledge that you are getting in order for Allah to give it to you, make it easy for you. So sit down in front of the desk, listen to the class as if you were listening to me live and listen to the class. Now in between, you know, listening to the class, everyone is different. Everyone learns different and everyone prefers different things when learning. Me personally I like to take notes, just things that the teacher is saying, I just write down things or I question my pop-up while I'm listening to something or sometimes as well I might say something while I'm speaking, while I'm teaching the lesson, that it's not going, that you're not going to find in the Kitab al-Tabiyyid, that you're not going to find in the essential lessons, I'm only going to mention it and it might not be important for me, it might not be a benefit for me, but for you it might be a benefit. So you might want to write those down to later on, write it down on the mulahabad section of your Kitab al-Tabiyyid, on the notes section of the Kitab al-Tabiyyid. All right, so everyone is different. You might want to take notes, you might want to keep rewind in the video, oh what did he say this? You might want to follow the transcript at the same time, you might want to be reading as you're listening, everyone is different, everyone is different. So whether you are listening to the regular lesson, just listen to me whether you are following the transcript, you can as well perhaps speed up the lesson a little bit. This is completely up to you, you need to find what is best for you and when you feel what you feel the most comfortable with. But the most important thing is that you need to listen to the lesson, listen to the lesson, pay attention and absorb knowledge, absorb knowledge, preferably during the morning just as if you were taking a regular class, you don't want to be laying down, eating while working. Yes, you can listen while working to benefit from it, to perhaps listen one time before you actually listen to the lesson attentively just to know, okay, yeah, remember that now he mentioned these and mentioned. That's completely fine, but there has to be a moment, a time, at least once where you actually sit down in front of the lesson and listen to it, paying attention, taking notes, perhaps rewinding and whatever it might be, you need to listen to the lesson. Second of all, what we want to do is after you have listened and paid attention to the lessons, you want to take a moment to absorb all of that knowledge, go over it, read the notes, okay, make sure that you have written all the, you know, make sure that you're not missing any meaning, make sure that you understand everything that was explained. If you have a question asked, asked what was meant, what did I mean when I explain these, I didn't understand these, I didn't understand that. You need to take a moment to make sure you have collected all the information, to make sure you have collected all the information and take time to know if you have understood everything. So take a step back, absorb it, make sure you have collected everything, write down all the words in your daftar tabid, all the nouns, or the tabirat, or the expressions, or the verbs, write them down. I highly recommend you to write it down. Yes, go through the struggle of writing every single word, every single word, every single conjugation with the harakat and everything, write them down, because at the same time you are developing your fluency while writing as well. If you don't do this, then you're not going to be working on writing. A lot of students, they want to be slick and download the daftar tabid that is already done, so they don't have to write it down, but you are only hurting yourself because you're not working on writing. So going through the struggle of writing every single tassarif, every single conjugation, every single noun, you are reading at the same time, so it's extra revision that you're doing, and it helps to get ready to then go ahead and memorize it. Now you need to make sure that when you write it down, you write down all the harakat perfectly. Don't write down the haveayahihibu, because then you're going to memorize it wrong. So make sure before you go into the third step, which we're going to talk about right now, make sure everything is completely perfect on your daftar tabid before you actually go into the third step. Then the third step is the most important one, is the crucial one, the core of this whole process and what is going to determine if you have passed this lesson or not. The third step is memorizing the words, memorizing the words. What do we mean by words? Many students, what they do is that they just memorize the mufrat, they just memorize the singular, they don't memorize the plural, that's wrong. They just memorize the past tense of the conjugation of the verb. They just memorize thehabah instead of thehabah, ithabahabun, ithabahabun or a'a'a'ada yuidu a'a'ada tun, they just memorize a'a'ada. That's wrong. You need to memorize every single thing, whether it's ahlun, ahali, ahluna, whether it's the singular, you need to memorize everything, alright? Now when it comes to memorizing, you need to make sure that you repeat. Memorizing is just about repetition, it's just about repetition. We are creatures of habit, our brain is just like a muscle. The more you work it, it doesn't matter, remove of your head because I already see you thinking, oh my brain is not developed, oh I'm too old, or I've never memorized anything, remove all of that, it's just like a muscle. It's just about working it. So the more you work on your muscle, the more strength you will gain. And obviously going back to what we spoke about, the talib la ilm, the student of knowledge, the student of the Arabic language, needs to cut, as Ibn Qadama al-Makdisi said, cut all ties or things that are making you busy. The more things you have in your brain, the more things you are thinking about, as Ibn Qadama al-Makdisi said, the more thoughts you need to think about, the less strength you have when memorizing. So that's very important as well, your environment, what is going on in your life, that's what's going to make you able or less capable to memorize. But the key point and the key thing when memorizing is repetition. So I need you guys to memorize every single conjugation, every single noun and its plurals, every single expression, repeated at least 250 times. That's the ideal, at least 250 times. Now there is levels. If you just want to be an average student and just pass by, yes, repeat it 100 times. If you want to be a decent student, repeat it 250 times. If you want to be an optimal high performance, peak performance student, repeat it 500 times to 700 as they do in Mauritania. Okay, so 100, 250, 500. You choose the more you want it, the more you are going to repeat it. And believe me, you are not going, you will never regret repeating it too much. That's something that doesn't happen. You never regret repeating something too much because at the end of the day, you need to memorize all the words and to know them as al-Fatiha. Just the same way you know your name and al-Fatiha, you need to memorize them that way. All right, so when it comes to memorizing, what do you need to memorize? You need to memorize singalus, plurals, you need to memorize murad-i-fad, synonyms, you need to memorize muddad, anthonyms. So basically you shouldn't leave anything in your Kitab al-Tabit that you don't know. You need to get to a point where I ask you, what is the jammu of ahlun? You tell me ahlun, ahali, ahluna, and the muradif of it is usratun. And the jammu of that muradif of that synonym is usarun. All right, and perhaps the opposite, the anthonym is sadiqun, it's friend. And the jammu of that anthonym is asdiqa'u. All right, so you need to have all of this in your mind. The sharper you are, spitting out this vocab in a regular sitting, like where you're not using it, where I ask you, okay, what is the tasrif of istama'a? And you tell me istama'a, istama'a, istama'a, istama'a, ustama'a. The sharper you are here, the sharper you are going to be later when it comes to using it. Whether you are listening to it, someone is going to tell you. And the jammu of that anthonym is asdiqa'u. And the jammu of that anthonym is asdiqa'u. And the jammu of that anthonym is asdiqa'u. You see this process of thinking it out. The more you repeat it, the less you will have to think out. The less this process will take for you to realize what that person said. The same thing we're reading, you might read something. Wa ka'ana ar-rajulu mustami'an ila zawjati. The more you know this word, the more you have repeated it, the less this process of trying to understand what you are reading will take. And it will save you time of having to repeat the whole sentence again. Again, or the same way when you're speaking. When you're speaking, it's going to be easy for you to bring the specific tense that you need to use. And yes, you need to memorize everything. Because how are you going to say, if you're talking about the present tense and you're talking about thehabah to go? Many students, they say, anam nam, anah thehabah asuq. And they use the past tense when they are meaning that they are going on the present tense. So they say thehabah because that's all they memorized. They didn't memorize abhabu as in I am going. And through memorizing all of these vocabulary, all of these conjugations, it makes you more, it makes you fluent. The sharper you are in that memorization, the sharper you are in fluency. And it allows you to stop speaking like a caveman. Like instead of saying thehabah, anam madrasa, me, go, me, school, you say thehabtu ilal madrasa. Once you understand how to conjugate the verb because you have gone over the essential lessons and you have memorized the whole conjugation of the verb, thehabah, thehabu, thehabun, thehabun, madhub. And all of these things will then click all of these different aspects of memorization. We will then click and you are going to be able to use it in a more concise and correct way. All right, so when it comes to memorizing, you just go ahead and repeat. It's as simple as repeating as you are going to see on this next clip. Samia yasma'u isma sam'un sam'un masm'un. Samia yasma'u isma'u sam'un sam'un masm'un. Samia yasma'u isma'u sam'un sam'un masm'un. Samia yasma'u isma'u sam'un sam'un masm'un. Samia yasma'u isma'u sam'un sam'un masm'un. Samia yasma'u isma'u sam'un sam'un masm'un. Samia yasma'u isma'u sam'un sam'un masm'un. Listen, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear, hear Khaleelun Akhirlau, Sadiqun Astiqa'u Adubun Aida'un. And that is how simple it is, it's about repeating regardless of your age, regardless of your maturity, regardless of your previous and back-front experience in memorizing, it doesn't matter, it's just about just know that forgetfulness cannot cope with repetition. Forgetfulness cannot cope with repetition. The more you repeat, the less you are going to forget. So remember that, remember that at least 250, that's what I'm telling you, that's what I recommend you. If you want to be on your high performance, if you feel like you want to be something great in the future, then go ahead and repeat 500 times, then go ahead and repeat 500 times. So this is how you successfully complete a lesson once you have gone over and you have understood everything that was explained in the lesson, then you go ahead and memorize. Obviously, you don't memorize anything unless you don't know it. You're not going to start memorizing the habiyah, the habun, if you have the habun, when you don't even know the meaning, you don't even know that it means to go. No, you memorize what you already know and understood, then you go ahead and memorize it. Alright, and this is how you successfully complete a lesson and I hope this was clear. Wa sallallahu ala Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa jami'in wa as-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullah.