 What I learned is that if a student of knowledge has two things, he'll benefit a lot, okay? The first thing I say is a sifat al-letiyan baghi, ayyatahallabihi al-zaalib al-al characteristics of a student of knowledge must and should adorn himself with and these are like The following number one he has to be sincere if you're embarking on this path of seeking knowledge to be very sincere you can't have You know another motive Another thought in your mind. This should be for the sake of Allah Azza wa Jalla. Number two a Siddkuf al-Talab you have to be truthfully seeking knowledge and the difference between sincerity and truthfulness is that sincerity It means you're doing it for Allah alone. Okay. And truthfulness means that your Why else you're seeking knowledge? You're not associating knowledge with any anything else. You're focusing on it alone wholeheartedly Hmm, and I say you spend three things on knowledge You spend your money, you spend your nafs, you see, you know, you spend your time on it If you give those three times three to it, all of it, it will give you something in return. Those three things are your life basically The third thing is that the person has Whatever's been Allah gave you the small knowledge that you've taken implemented Make sure that you implement it and like I always give this example, which is if a mother's feeding a child And she puts food in the child's mouth She won't put more food in his mouth unless he swallows what was already was already put in his mouth So swallow it first and then in other words digest that take that in Same as with when it comes to knowledge Allah will only give you what you've taken in what you've digested what you've implemented in your life The fourth one is the person has him a highly high aspiration Knowledge you need to you need to you need to be a person who has high high high high aspiration And you have to enjoy that pain that comes with it Enjoy it High aspiration some people they might say the sky is the limit. I say no the sky isn't even the limit I've given this example quite a lot of times and that is The reason why they call the lion The king of the jungle is because a lion doesn't eat dead corpse A lion loves to hunt it's beneath him. Yeah, that's for hyenas and you know, he's got a title called the king of the jungle So he has the exact effort and hard work. That's what that's what the lion is, right? Yeah If you want to be high Uh, you have to exert, you know, I have to believe that this is not something that you could just high aspiration The prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam tell us He said if you can ask Allah for Jannah, ask Jannah to Firdous Don't just say, oh, I want Jannah any part in Jannah is enough for me Anyone who's protected from the hellfire and he's been put in Jannah, then they found success As long as I get my leg into Jannah, that's all I want. Don't say that You're a Muslim. You're a mu'min, inshallah. Have high aspirations. Say, oh, I want Jannah to Firdous The prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam tell us The next characteristics that a person should adorn himself with is Adem al-istu'ijal Don't be hasty See knowledge doesn't come all in once Don't be hasty. Take time. This is good. This is this is this is Like knowledge that was written for like 1000 something years. You can't take it all in once The salafi said Anyone who tries to take knowledge all at once If I take it all in once But the way you can attain knowledge is Days and nights So it's time it needs from you. Don't try to do all at once And last but not least To be with the people of knowledge And even if you can't get the scholars at least be with those who are higher than you those who've You know, you're preceded you in knowledge Proceeded in righteousness be in their company because they're gonna put you up. They're gonna encourage you They're gonna advise you and they're gonna push you forward So you're gonna you're gonna scrape off, you know, they're good habits are gonna They're gonna it's gonna show on you and you're gonna get from it You learn how to organize your time. You're gonna learn how to carry yourself and etc Those are the the the characteristics that I believe When you're seeking knowledge and you're embarking on this path, you need to have a l'ichlas And the second was And the third one is And the fourth was And the fifth was Those are the first thing I believe if you want to learn and you want to benefit from your time going To seek knowledge to sit with the scholars to go to another country Those are the six things that you need to adorn yourself with That's what you need to come with from your country With that mindset that this is what you're gonna shout out to Anna You're gonna do Beautiful advice Now the second point is a methodology and this is where a lot of people struggle I've come with all of these characters. I'm sincere. I'm truthful I'm I'm with the college scholars, but I don't know what to study. What should I do? How should I do it? So the methodology is the second point and here The concept of what to study The methodology of how to be precise in knowledge how to really understand knowledge Is five I'll break it into two. Okay The first one is marahil stages that you need to go through If you miss one stage Or if you jump a stage Or if you You bring two stages into one It will show in your ability of comprehension And that is number one You have to go through the marhala to texis you're grounding yourself first Learn the ground and learn the foundations first Don't talk about what's not your level Stay in your lane as they say texis ground yourself Here at that level you're just gonna let everything From the foundation give an example when you come to seek knowledge Well, this is a statement my father said to me and I remember it He said to me that when you're seeking knowledge You're like a house that has holes inside it In order for the floor to be built first or they have to what? They have to make sure that those holes are filled. That's the foundation So it won't show marhala to texis won't show it won't come to the surface yet So if you're expecting to be a scholar and teach at that moment Or be a scholar or people refer back to you then nothing's seen on you. There's nothing there. You haven't got anything yet It's just when you pass those that level then things start emerging onto the surface So marhala to texis The second marhala that the student goes through is called marhala to tedlil Marhala to tedlil is where the person now asks evidences looks for evidences Try to find out what the evidences are, you know, he's grow. He's he's got the foundations now It's more like what's evidence because he can ask about evidence. He can find out about evidence the third one is The stage where it's called Marhala to ilm al-mukaran he compares ideas and views He's able to compare things He can say look this view is holds this. This is the evidence. This group these group of scholars They say this and this is the evidence Okay, they can compare views. He's at that level now. He's at that level But he still can't strengthen one opinion from the he just he can compare opinion is this okay These are the differences between the opinions the fourth level is where it starts to become marhala to tedlil He does tedlil of the mess. Anna. He says this opinion is stronger than this opinion and this is strong This is than this opinion Yeah, he strength is one opinion from the other and the fifth and last Stage is when the student actually he does marhala to texis. He specializes now This is my field of expertise. I'm good at this but guess what this is the problem I found Is that marhala to texis where you specialize Is the stage where many people start to do that at an early stage Yeah, I see at the beginning as in seeking knowledge. You have to try to learn all the sciences And then after that when you've studied all of the sciences, Allah is not going to make all the sciences the same They don't all feel the same Sure, there is going to be one science that sticks out for you a science that you appreciate science that you know A lot of the times the way to appreciate science is when it's more applicable in your life That's how you feel that that science is for you a lot of the times Okay, you take that science and you go forward in that science and you specialize in it But that doesn't mean you're ignorant about all the other sciences Those five levels are the tedarruj fatala the gradual stages of learning You see yeah Another point that I wanted to mention as a side point is that when it comes to these issues that are Being looked at in issues of fiqh and stuff like that on the knowledge of the dean What I found when I went to my scholars and you know these halakad that I went to The shiukh that I saw I realized There are four levels that if a person has Conversations between scholars private gatherings that you go to Rula maa In their lectures you can really enjoy it And it even opens the path of literally reading a book for hours on end and you literally enjoy it Is when these four things are in place Okay, number one Is if you have what is known as tasawru al masalati tasawuran sahihan you have a perception of this issue I I found over the years because we're students I remember sometimes a sheikh would go for a book with us and then when the teacher goes Amongst ourselves the students will start having discussions over it and you know And then whatever we didn't understand would come to the sheikh and we ask him later But what I realized is And one of the things that my sheikh used to point out was which is We're arguing But guess what when we're not we're not even talking about the same thing Like we're like if we sat down and what do you mean by that? Yeah, okay, note it down and what do you mean by that? Okay. Okay. I'm talking about the same thing You know what I mean a lot of khilafs will go out of the window So the concept of perception of what you're talking about I'm what you're going to give a ruling to first was important The scholars they say To place a ruling on something first of all perceive it correctly Then the second comes which is Just to know the ruling after I've perceived this issue. What is the ruling for it? And of course the rulings are going to be one of five You know those five levels The third stage I say is That you know the differences between the like you can see the differences between different issues For example, if we're talking about a issue And you're talking about another issue We have to know that there are similarities in these issues and there are differences as well If there comes a difference it could change the whole ruling Some people like oh, but it's similar. What if it's similar is a different discussion? Is it the same? No, then of course we're going to have to put it aside for now And the fourth is Knowing the levels of all the issues Which is the strongest, which is the lowest, which is then high then like that I believed if when when I got those four I benefited from reading benefiting from the ulama going to the halakat reading books Having discussions with people amazing advice