 وَأَقُولُوا فِي القُرْآنِ مَا جَاءَتْ بِهِ أَيَاتُوهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ الْمُنزَالُونَ وَأَقُولُوا قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُوهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتْ أَوَّالُونَ الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وجدوا الله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحقا وهو يهدي السبيل وأشد أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد today إن شاء الله تعالى we're going to speak about in this lecture today as it was announced 20 matters or 20 things that a student of knowledge finds distressful when acquiring or trying to attain knowledge الله سبحانه وتعالى he created the human being when Allah سبحانه وتعالى he created the human being he created the human in the best form الله سبحانه وتعالى he said in the Quran و لقد خلقنا الإنسان لقد خلقنا الإنسان في أحسن تقويم الله سبحانه وتعالى he says we created the humans in the best form أصحب الله سبحانه وتعالى he says in the nada ayah يا أيها الإنسان oh mankind ما غرك بربك الكريم what has deceived you concerning concerning your Lord بربك الكريم your Lord the generous الله سبحانه وتعالى الذي خلقك the one who created you فسواكا أنه فسواكا means he proportioned you سبحانه وتعالى فعدلك أن he balanced you في أي صورة ما شاء ركبك and in whichever form the form that you're in he is the one who brought your limbs together like that so the human as we know الله سبحانه وتعالى in this ayah and the ayah before that I mentioned الله سبحانه وتعالى he created us in the best of forms and from the great things of our creation is that our body has a leader something that controls its affairs and that is the heart in the famous hadith in which ألمام البخاريو نريت لني صحيح من حديثي النعماني بل بشير رضي الله وتعالى عنه النعماني بل بشير is a noble companion the hadith is very long but in the hadith the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said ألا وإن في الجسد بضغة that verily in the human being there is a piece of meat إذا صلاحة صلاحة الجسد وكله that if this piece of meat this موصل if it's upright if it's steadfast the whole of the body is steadfast وإن فاسدت and if this small meat becomes corrupt then the rest of the body becomes corrupt the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said ألا وهي القلب this thing that controls the whole body that the steadfastness of the body and the corruption of the body it's connected to it is the heart لذلك أبو هوريرا he took that statement of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and he said القلب ملك الأعباء that the heart is the king of the body والأعباء وجلوده and the body part your arms your legs your face your body parts are like its soldiers the heart is the king and the body parts are the soldiers فإن طاب الملك and if the king is upright he is noble he is righteous طاب الجنوده ورأيه and of course the soldiers and those who are under him are going to be upright وإن خبوث الملك the king is corrupt deviates خبوث الجنوده then his soldiers and those who are under him are going to become corrupt so that the Quran when it says that الله سبحانه وتعالى created us in the best of forms is the fact that there is a heart in us that we can make sure that if we protect that heart the whole of the body will be intact with it الله سبحانه وتعالى he tells us in the Quran يومة دي لا ينفع مالو ونبنو the day when there will be no benefit of the world that you come with or your children however much they are in number they are not going to benefit you يومة دي الله tells us لا ينفع مالو the money that you have will not benefit you ولا بنون and the children that you have will not benefit you that day the only thing that is going to benefit you إلا من أت الله بقلب سليم except the one who comes to Allah with a sound heart this person is going to make it through that day and now since this heart is the موضوع النظر the place Allah looks at and the place that the person entering of jannah and the person's success instead of fastness is connected to it the علماء they gave importance to the heart then they wrote books on it they wrote books on it some of the books become volumes the علماء when it comes to these ayat that I mentioned and these are hadith or the hadith that I mentioned of Hadith Al-Umar ibn Bashir they went in details regarding it but the best insha'Allah cure and dealing of the heart that we can find is the Qur'an is sufficing and the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ ابن القيم says in his Nounia والكل في القرآن والسنن اللتي جاءت علي المبعوث بالفرقال والله ما قال مرئن متحد لقن بسواهما إلا من الهديان that the Qur'an and the Sunnah has come with that which distinguishes everything nobody speaks other than the Qur'an except that his speech is no value to it why is it that I spoke about the issue of the heart and why am I speaking about the matters pertaining to the heart because stress and grief and sorrow comes from the heart it's where it springs from it's the heart the scholars they mention that the word هم that has come in the Arabic language is of two types the word هم that we come across and we see it has two usages the first of them is هم تقوى به النفس a type of hem which strengthens it's a stress but this stress is positive it's the type of stress which strengthens the person it makes the person elevate and the person attains his goals and what he's trying to achieve the second type of hem the second type of stress تقوى به النفس the person's nerves becomes weak و يمنعها من الوصول إلى مقاصدها and it prevents the person from attaining their objective on what they're trying to look for let's start with the one that our subject is about today which is the type of hem that weakens the person because the first one which strengthens the person is what the scholars call هم عالي high aspirations and we're not talking about that today our lecture is not regarding that our lecture is regarding the type of stress that weakens the person especially we're going to narrow it down to the stress that a person endures when seeking knowledge الله سبحانه وتعالى when he created us he created us through hardship and placed us in hardship الله says in the Qur'an لقد خلقنا الإنسان في كبد الله says we have created but we have certainly created man into hardship الله سبحانه وتعالى كبد means hardship الله has created you into hardship the Mufassilin they say كبد here is a عناقن و مشطة the person is put into hardship و لذلك الليمان ببنو ماجر رحمه الله he narrates in his Sunan من حريثي معاوية بالأبسوفيان رضي الله تعالى عنهم he heard that the prophet لم يبقى من الدنيا إلا بلا ونوفتنا nothing remains in this دنيا except calamities and trials and tribulations that's what remains in this world and in this world دار is دار وبتحان وابتلا it's a place where you're going to go through stress it was created that way it was made that way and one of the lines of poetry that a poet said أب الحسن التهامي رحمه الله he said طبعت على كدر و أنت تريدها صفوى من الأكدار والأقدار و مكلف الأيام يضدط باعها متلمس في المائي جد وتناري this world was made through calamities and hardship and you wanted pure from all of that you want a dunya that hasn't got that hardship but when Allah made it he made it that way سبحانه و تعالى this is to distinguish it from the hereafter but what you want is a dunya that has no hardship everything is easy everything flows و لذلك ابن عبس عبس ابن تيمية الحراني he used to say those two lines every time because he was a person who went through a lot of hardship so he would always read those two lines of poetry however much brothers this world seems to have glitizen and it is beautified to you this dunya is always a prison for you and as you all know a prison cannot be a place where you enjoy prisons is to be stressful when you go inside it as the prophet said in the hadith of Imam al-Muslim at dunya that this dunya is the prison of the believer و جنة الكافر and it's the paradise of this believer what does that mean if everything is given to you in this world and you've never ever gone through any hardship in this world it's still a prison for the believer how is it a prison for the believer in comparison to what awaits you on the other side this is nothing you've been put into something pathetic compared to as a believer what awaits you on the other side that if you've had no stress no hardship put your way this dunya is still a prison for you still a prison for you و لذلك one of the statements that amazed me was the statement of رحمه الله he was one of the righteous slaves of Allah he said a very powerful statement he said كنا قوم من أهل الجنة he said we were a people who resided in jannah فسبانة إبليس إبليس took us as a captive it took us as a captive in a dunya to this world it brought us of jannah as captives and it brought us to this dunya فليس لنا الإل الهن so there's nothing else except stress for us so there's nothing for us in this dunya except stress that's what we're going to go through و الحزب حتى نرد إلى الدار التي أخرجنا منها until we're taking back to the place that we were brought out of we're going to be distressed we're going to go through what grief and sorrow until we are taken from the place that we were in we were in jannah و لا أعين أرات ولا خطر على قلبي و لأهل الشيء لن يرى و لن يدخل و لن يدخل إلى مرسة أحد و لن يدخل و لن يدخل إلى this dunya و لن يدخل و كنت أجد و حزب و قرية و هذا لن يفهم أدخلوه أن تحدث سيحدث وما أبقى أن أدخل فهي only reduction. I'm not promising you that it will take away everything. يبن القيم رحمه الله يتقنى كلام فتح الموصيل رحمه الله and he made it into a line of poetry. He said فَحَيَّا عَلَا جَبْنَاتِ عَدْنٍ فَإِنَّهَا مَنَازِلُكَ الْأُولَا وَفِيْهَا المُخَيَّمُونَ وَلَا كِمْنَنَا صَبْيُلْ عَدُوِّ فَهَا الْتَرَى نُرَدُّ إِلَا مَنَازِلِنَا وَالُسَلَّمُونَ The same statement that Fathrel Borsilli said, he said يبن القيم in his Nounia. Also the things that will always consistently keep stress with you. The dunya is already made like that. So that's going to keep you stressed. And also the other thing that's going to keep you stressed brothers is your own nefs is made in a way, your nefs is made in a way that is meant to stress consistently. As Allah said in the Quran إن الإنسان خلق هلوعة that indeed mankind was created anxious. Allah created us like that. إذا مسهوا الشروا جزوعا that when evil touches him, he's impatient. وإذا مسهوا الخير منوعا and when good touches him, he withholds from it. So the humans of طبيعة, the way Allah made him it's naturally that he's going to be a stressful individual. That's what he's going to be. Also what my lecture cannot eliminate is that Shaytan also has a playing role in making a person be stressful and go through grief and sorrow consistently. Allah says to us in the Quran إنما دالكم الشيطان يخوف أولياء Allah tells us that this is Shaytan who frightens you of his supporters. أهل التفصير they say يخوفكم بأولياءه لتخافوه that Iblis uses his allies and his soldiers to place fear into your hearts. So he always wants you to be stressed. Iblis plays his role in making you stressed. Also Allah says in another ayah الشيطان يعدكم الفقر that Shaytan threatens you with poverty ويأمركم بالفحشاء and he orders you to do things which are immoral. He orders you immorality. الشيطان is going to say to you are you going to seek knowledge really? So who's going to pay rent and electricity? He places that in you and every time you embark on something good he places in front of you and threatens you with poverty. And then once you walk away from that which is good then he will push you towards what? to immorality. Also what brings about stress brothers and sisters is that السترسال في الخواتر when a person kind of lives in a fantasy world to be honest. A lot of people don't you see that they're not living reality and this is from the things that fantasy does if you think about it too much and you dwell your mind over it this becomes a حقيقة for you and if the world doesn't become that way you become stressed. So the person has to realize that that is also a matter. The people's heart when it comes to stress we all go through it and everybody does but the hearts of the people are different in when it comes to stress and grief and sorrow and the way their difference is is in accordance to their إيمان the more a person's إيمان is the less stress that they go through and the more that the person's sin is the more stress that they go through as إبن القيب رحم الله in details he goes through this in his كتاب بداية الفوائت and what we need to always remember brothers is there is not an illness on the face of this earth except that Allah has made a cure for it the one who knows it knows it and the one who is ignorant about it is ignorant about it but there is not an illness stress is the illness there is not an illness on the face of this earth except that Allah has made for it what a cure the one who knows it knows it and the one who is ignorant about it is ignorant about it and the عولنا the people of knowledge they divided the cure of illnesses whether it be stress or any other illnesses the scholars they categorize the cure in two types the first one is شريعة based cures cure that is taken from the كتاب السنة شريعة الموصوفة في خطاب الشرع شريعة is the one that prescribes the medicine here it's the شريعة that prescribes the cure here the second one is الأدوية القدرية الموصوفة في لسان الأمم the second type of cure is them cure that is prescribed through those who have specialized doctors experience let's start with the first one which is الأدوية الشرعية الموصوفة في خطاب الشرع cures that are prescribed by the شريعة I'm going to mention 15 إن شاء الله و تعالى for stress specifically because that's the most we're talking about and it can also be applied for other than it the first cure for stress is التوحيد و تنزيه ربي علي الظلم it's to come with توحيد سيقو الله تبارك و تعالى not to associate partners with him and it is also to exalt الله from oppression و تنزيه ربي علي الظلم that you get rid of and you exalt and you purify الله from attributing any oppression to him number 2 اعتراف العبدي بتفريطه the second cure for stress is that the person acknowledges the slave acknowledges that he is deficient that he is short in the right of his creator that he hasn't done as he was required from him that he is falling short اعتراف العبدي بتفريطه that the slave admits willingly that he is falling short in regards to the rights of his lord number 3 توصول العبد that the slave he intercedes to his lord الله سبحانه و تعالى or he he intercedes to his lord through his names and his attributes that when he wants to call his lord out he uses Allah's names and Allah's noble names and characteristics that he has سبحانه و تعالى number 4 استعالة العبد that the slave finds help and seeks help and refuge in Allah سبحانه و تعالى and he relies on him and he hopes from Allah number 5 the person goes towards the book of Allah و سبحانه و تعالى the Quran reads it بتدبوره and it goes over the verses number 6 الاستغفار والتوبة the person and asks الله سبحانه و تعالى forgiveness for their shortcoming and their wrongdoings number 7 الجهاد that the person fights with himself first foremost that the person fights with their nafs and the person hates the prayer the person runs to the prayer as the prophet he said و جُعِلَتِ الصلاة that the prayer was made قُرَّةُ عيني that's where I'll find comfort tranquility all of these it's a deal for it but we're now going to number 9 البراعة من الحول والقوة that the person he frees from himself any strength and ability the person he strips from himself what do I mean by that he admits that he has no strength he has no ability ability and the strength everything is in whose hand الله سبحانه و تعالى increases on the statement لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله that there's no one can bring this matter to this and no one has the ability for this to happen except him الله سبحانه و تعالى number 10 الإيمان والعمل الصالح the person does acts of righteous deeds whether it be صدقة whether it be ربرا whatever it may be come with actions which are righteous number 11 الدعاء the person supplicates to Allah سبحانه و تعالى number 2 sorry number 12 number 12 the person he comes with a zikr excessive remembrance of Allah that his mouth does not become dry from the remembrance of Allah number 13 جنع النفس على ما ينفع you busy yourself and you preoccupy yourself with that which benefits you and don't preoccupy your mind and yourself and your energy with that which has that which has gone or that which has that which does not benefit you the salaf they used to say dwelling over the past is trying to bring the dead out of their graves and you're going against the سنة للله القونية الله سبحانه و تعالى as universal signs everything goes forward nothing goes backwards and you are the only one that's going backwards by thinking of what already happened so don't busy yourself with that busy yourself with what's in front of you and that which will benefit you and you are the only one that's going backwards by thinking of what already happened so don't busy yourself with that that which is in front of you and that which will benefit you number 14 الله سبحانه و تعالى as the prophet said الله سبحانه و تعالى said I am what my slave thinks of me in the ayah of the Quran when did Allah say ذالكم ظلكم واللي ظلنتم بربكم this is what you thought of your lord Allah is going to do to you what you thought of him last but not least شهود المنة الربانية that you testify and you admit and you believe with unwavering conviction that the hardship and the stress and the grief that you're going through is actually a form of expiation for you those 15 are شرعية they are sharply cause for stress if a person takes which is mentioned in the Quran and it's mentioned in the sunnah it will get rid of the stress that you go through but who's going to do it ابن القيم رحمه الله و تعالى he has a kitab matih a great book he called it I took all of that from his book in the fourth volume all of that I took from it last night he has two chapters he's got two chapters in that book of his he's got two chapters in that book of his where he speaks about it now he speak about أدوية القدرية what about the second form of medicine that a person does which is the medicine that is prescribed by في رسالة الأمم it's being tested the first one is that they mention is حسم الأعمال في الحال والتفرغ المستقبل never delay what you're doing whatever is needed from you at that particular moment do it and leave your future clear in other words don't delay things because that's what stresses you out when you push things backwards and then it piles up and it stresses you out and you end up doing nothing and it's what brings about stress in order to overcome stress everything that has to be done that day do it that day and leave your future as clear as possible or as minimal requirement that is needed from you number 2 ترحوا التكلف في أخذ الفضائل get rid of wanting a reward and everything that you do if a person wants to be rewarded for everything they say or do they don't get that reward they get stressed out number 3 تخيور الأعمال الفاضلة choosing the best of actions choosing the best of actions number 4 توطينوا النفس training your nafs على ألا تطرب الشقة إلا من الله to not wait for to have gratitude from the creation never wanting people to show you gratitude appreciation you don't wait for that only wanting from who number 5 العلموا having a knowledge بأن أديت النس having the knowledge that the people's harm the people's calamity what the people are putting you through whether it be calling by statement or it is an action it will not harm you if you believe that in your heart whatever people say about you whatever people do to you there's no going to harm you it's actually going to harm them how is it going to harm them because of the fact that الله سبحانه وتعالى has go to judge them for what they said about you or what they did to you so don't take it into your mind ولي ذلك letting somebody or bringing somebody into your heart and thinking about them so much is letting somebody live in your heart without paying rent this person is going to sleep he's having a nice day you're the only one who's thinking about it إذن أديت النس that the people's harm that they want to put you through whether it be speech or whether it be action لا تظوك it's not going to harm you okay it's not going to it's not going to harm you rather it's going to harm them number 6 استحباروا قصر الحياة الدنيا bring it to your mind that this dunya is very short it's not a very long time everybody's going to die very soon it's not a very long the reason is because once you start thinking like that you don't want to take a retaliation number 7 رياضة النفسي على معانات مر القضائي وتعويد وحصبر تراني your نفس to accept the bitterness of the Qadr of the Qadr sometimes and to train yourself upon patience all of that 7 that I mentioned I got it from the Kitab في الحياة السعيدة by Abdulhamman Nasri-Sredi he has a book and inshAllah we will once explain that book بإذن الله الكريم يستعمالوا ما فيه صفرة using things that are yellow using things that are yellow using things that are yellow فإن الصفرة because things that are bright yellow تبسطوا النفسة it's the brightness it's opens the person and not dark colors and it gets rid of depression and grief and sorrow أبو حيان الأندوليس أبو أخبره في كتابة البحر المحيط and he has evidence for this which is the statement of Allah about the cow of Ben-Israel الله said صفراء a yellow cow فاقع الولو نها bright in its color تصوروا النظرين pleasing to the observers pleasing goes against stress so things that are yellow they bring about joy and happiness أقطب taking medication and that what your doctor prescribes for you number 10 اتيان الزوجة intimate relationship is what gets rid of stress if a person is stressed and they have an intimate relationship with their spouse it gets rid of it gets rid of stress many people who are young who are youths who are not married the fact that the shahwa is in them brings about stress أبو الفرج ابن رجب he spoke about this in his مجمع الرسائل he made a chapter for it in some of his books about this issue number 11 الرمي آتشري فإن لو أثر في إليها بالهلم والغم it actually helps when it comes to stress and grief ابن رقيم spoke about it in very in depth and details in his كتاب الفروسية المحمدية that archery and doing archery actually releases the tension and the stress from the person number 12 لبس الفضب where in silver ابن رقيم mentioned this in his كتاب زاد المعاد أن نظر في الأنواري والأزهاري والأدياري والألواري الحسنة going out into the forest seeing the greenery different types of flowers going to place where the wind is very nice going to high buildings all of these it also gets rid of stress سيوطي mentions this in his كتاب الشمائل الشريفة رحمه وموله جميعا الله be pleased with all of those all of these are just a summary of benefits that I had already so we can't go through each one in details إن شاء الله إن نجم there every time that time they say is the greatest we'll speak about it in details ن Impact but insha' Allah we'll are going to restrict ourselves and specifically speak about one type of stress when that's the stress in seeking knowledge there's 20 points that I promise that I will go through يجب عليك أن تفعل هذا اليوم إذا فقط تفعله 1 أو 2 بإذن الله الكريم will leave the rest for tomorrow بإذن الله الكريم The first stress that a student of knowledge will go through from those stresses is أخلاس The stress of sincerity When a person wants to seek knowledge They fear this concept of what Are you showing off? Are you trying to make other people know that you're seeking knowledge? So the person starts to become Should I even seek knowledge now? Should I stop seeking knowledge? Am I a person who should learn the religion of Allah or is it for other people's hearts are clean and not for me? This is something that many go through And the person who finds themselves enduring that and consistently asking themselves this question and always stressed like this then remember the statement of أبنو قيم إلا المخلصون No one knows showing off except those who are sincere The only person who will be scared of it and always consistently worried about showing off is a person who is sincere It's a sign which is very good if you're scared of showing off If you always got that in your mind It's a good sign But what's the cure for it? أبنو قيم mentions That one of the greatest one of the greatest understanding is to understand the objectives of seeking knowledge There's four things a person should seek knowledge for The first reason where you're seeking knowledge for And your learning is You're learning to go outside misguidance You don't want to be a misguided person You want to be a guided person So that's the first reason why you're seeking knowledge That's the first مقصد The objectives in why you're seeking knowledge You want to go outside misguidance No.2 You want to benefit the people around you and the community that you're from and your friends that you know You want to benefit them That's the reason why you're out there learning No.3 You're trying to preserve knowledge and protect it from any what That knowledge becoming destroyed and corrupt and forsaken Because if the knowledge is not studied and there's not a people who are learning it then the knowledge will what? They will just be in the books but nobody knows it No.4 is to implement that knowledge which you have attained You're learning it because you want to implement it You want to get closer to Allah by doing it Those 4 are These are the intent of why you're seeking knowledge And they brought it together in 3 lines of poetry Before you seek knowledge Have this intention تعلم لي كيف تلفوز بالهدى أولها الخروج من ضلالي والثاني نفر خلق للجلالي والثالث الإحياء للعلومي ورابع العملي بالمعلومي أولها الخروج من ضلالي We mentioned that The first reason you're learning it for is what? You don't want to be misguided person والثاني نفر خلق للجلالي And the second is to benefit the people around you والثالث الإحياء للعلومي And the third is To give life to this knowledge And make it insha'Allah One that's not forgotten والرابع العملي بالمعلومي And the fourth is To implement the knowledge which you've learnt Anybody who realizes That that's the objective of knowledge And that's the intent of knowledge Then insha'Allah His intention is good if he's doing it for those 4 Our pious predecessors They used to get scale Of this concept of intention And sometimes Some of them would actually embark And seek knowledge with no intention But they wouldn't stop seeking knowledge معمر ابن راشد رحمه الله He said It used to be said that A man from amongst us He would go and seek knowledge For other than the sake of Allah And he would do it for no good intention But then knowledge will come And refuse him Knowledge will not let you carry on that way It will not just let you be a person Who has not got a good intention As the person is learning And the person is studying The intention will then become good That knowledge will refuse that Until it makes it be For the sake of Allah And امام الدهبي when he wrote this In his Kitab He said the following He said Yes He would seek And go out to seek knowledge At the beginning And what's making him study Is first of all he loves knowledge He loves to remove ignorance from himself But he also wants to work He wants to get that position He wants to be a qadi A judge And a qadi at that time was like He was a minister He wants to get to that position And he didn't have The knowledge of The obligation of having The obligation of having good intention And having Truthfulness in seeking knowledge But as the person is seeking Knowledge But if the person is seeking knowledge And they account themselves and say You can have all of these مسائل And then the person becomes Scared of his evil intent For تجيءه النية Then a good intention will come And the person will be Scared of his evil intent So it's not right For you to say I have bad intention for that reason I'm now going to stop seeking knowledge Rather what Allah wants from you Is that you fight with yourself As Allah said in the Qur'an يا أيها الذين آمنوا وصابرو ورابطوا واتقوا الله لعلكم تفلحون وصابرو ورابطوا واتقوا الله لعلكم أصبروا اصبوروا ربعنا ربعنا ودينا وصابرو ورابطوا ويتاقوا واتقوا الله ويكونوا كتابة لعلكم تفلعونة that you may be successful. وصول الله تبارك وتعالى he said والذين جاهدوا فينا لنهدينهم سبولنا. الله says and those who strive for us who work hard towards our path we shall surely guide them to our ways. So you're fighting, you're striving. والذين جاهدوا فينا this person who is certainly striving hard الله says we will guide him to the straight path because he's put in so much effort in fighting with his intention. سفيانة ثوريو he said I did not cure and I did not have to cure something greater or more harder than my intention because one day it's for me and one day it's against me. The intention it changes in one sit it changes four or five times. You started off the say and then later it changes and then within that sit they used to say we will renew our intention every time in one sit. So it's very stressful when it comes to the concept of intention and it gave a hard time to the self but doesn't make you stop seeking knowledge you should carry on seeking knowledge but you should also work on your intentions. The second type of stress that a student of knowledge will endure or he would go through is عدم الاهتدائي إلى طريق العلم not being guided I'm in the stress of feeling that you're not going to be guided on the correct way of seeking knowledge so you keep saying to yourself maybe I'm not taking the right path to seek knowledge maybe I'm not going the right way maybe I'm not taking the path Ibn Taymiyat took Ibn Ulqayyim took an other ulama I took so the person becomes stressed in that way Ibn Ulqayyim رحم الله سن ينس كتاب الفوائد يسأل الجهل بالطريق وآفاتها اغنرنس of the path and it's obstacles pay attention to three things that he's going to mention اغنرنس of the path وآفاتها and the harm that path contains والمقصود and the intent those three يجب التعب it will necessitate fatigue the person will get tired الكثير if you're ignorant about the path you're ignorant about the obstacles that are going to come when you're seeking knowledge you don't know what's going to await you and you don't even know the مقصود in terms of why you're seeking knowledge because you don't remember what I just mentioned before you don't know any of those three what you're going to do is what يجب التعب الكثير the person will endure a lot of tiredness and fatigue مع الفائدة القليلة and the benefit that the person leaves with his what very little five years ten years this person has been seeking knowledge but because he's ignorant of the path and he's ignorant about the obstacles that will await him there are obstacles, knowledge has obstacles somebody is going to say to you where do you want to go I want to go to Birmingham for example they say I can listen you go to Birmingham if you take that route you're going to be driving this much and the speed that you have to drive is this much if somebody doesn't tell you the things that you have to do even if you know the road but you don't know what to expect and the obstacles that could possibly be there then you're going to definitely what get tired the third which is the مقصود the intent why are you going to Birmingham for there's not an objective of why you're going there you're also going to be tired these three knowing the path knowing the obstacles that can come your way and knowing the intent of why you're taking this path in the first place what are you trying to achieve from this those three if you have them you will not feel as tired as many people are and you will leave with a lot of benefit and it's because of these three many people are tired now brothers what's the cure here then the cure is for this is إرشاد العارفين the cure for this is that you have to be guided by those who know somebody who knows the path who knows the obstacles of that path he also knows the intent that you need to come with okay if you get that person a شيخ a person of knowledge a person who knew that path he just took it he comes back and tells you this is the road this is the corner this is the turn he gives you the insight he will save you a lot of time you'll be less tired and you'll come out with a lot of benefits he's going to give you back routes he's going to say to you I was stuck in the traffic jam you know what don't take the route take another route he's going to save you from it و لذلك a famous حريث of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in which he taught us that this religion is taken from one شيخ to another شيخ to another شيخ to another شيخ the Prophet said in the حريث تسمعونا و يُسمعون منكم و يُسمعون من من سامع منكم عبدالله من عباس ناريتي في سنة أبي داود بالسنة دين قوي عبدالله من عباس ناريتي is from the Prophet and the hadith is found in سنة أبي داود the Prophet said تسمعون and you guys will hear from me نبي اللهي محمد you hear from me و يُسمعون منكم and there are going to be people who are going to listen to you guys and take knowledge from you guys و يُسمعون من من سامع منكم and those who heard from you will also be heard from which is the Tab'a-eid so this is what from the Prophet the companions the scholars students of the companions of the Tab'a-eid and then the Tab'a-eid and the Qa'ida is و العبرة و العموم الخطاب لا بخصوص المخاطبين even though the Prophet is talking to the companions here it's not restricted to them or alone this is till the day of judgement that this knowledge will be taken jeel after jeel و لذلك أليمان أبوز حق الشارطبي و نسكتاب الموافقات إن مقدمة إن مقدمة هي تُكسِب عن هذه الأشياء و الأطفال لتأتي المعرفة و الأطفال لتساعد المعرفة أخبركم لكي تحاولوا إن شاء الله و تعالى و بذن الله الكريم سوف نبقى و سوف نبقى و إن شاء الله و تعالى و لذلك و أطفال و أطفال رحمه الله once و مرام العلومة بغيلي شيخ يضل عن السراط المستقيم و تلتبس العلوم حتى يكون أضل من توما الحكيم تصدق بالبنات على رجال يريد بذاك جنات النعيم و مرام العلومة بغيلي شيخ أي one who wants to attain knowledge without a teacher يضل عن السراط المستقيم this person will become misguided from the straight path و تلتبس العلوم the knowledge will become mixed up it's all over the place for him because he doesn't know the path و تلتبس الأمور و تلتبس العلوم then sciences and everything will become mixed up for him you get mixed up and muddled up و تلتبس العلوم و عليه حتى يكون أضل من توما الحكيم أنت وهي becomes not misguided لما أن توما الحكيم not misguided لما أن توما الحكيم who is tomahakim تصدق بالبنات على رجال what he did was this man he thought he would get closer to Allah by giving women a sadaqah you give money a sadaqah right so many sadaqah so what he was doing was he would give out his daughters to men for sadaqah trying to get to what تصدق بالبنات على رجال يريدوا بذاك جناني معين he's trying to get jannah through it هذا جهل مراقب مراقب لذا لأنه لم يأخذ هذا المعلم من الشيخ و لم يأخذ منه الشيخ من المعلم so the way that you can save yourself or the way that you can get rid of this stress that you might have which has been guided to the way to seek knowledge is that you take that knowledge from a person who has knowledge who can guide you and say this is this science and this is what it's about and give you an understanding and give you what books to read and what books to stay away from when they say that to you is because they learned a lot they know where the mistakes happened for them they're going to save you a lot of time that تعب and that tiredness that he went through you won't go through it and what's also going to happen is that you're going to leave with more fa'ina so imagine if I spent 10 years confused I started shall I go to this book oh it's not beneficial for me that 10 years I wasted I could save you that 10 years right can I not I could save you that 10 years which I was confused methan in order for you to not take that path that I took so you would come out with 10 years quicker than me so you're less tired then and you're also going to come out with more benefit because that 10 years you're going to do what's more beneficial for you so you're going to elevate and grow faster شاء الله تعالى I will stop there بإذن الله الكريم anything which I have said that was wrong incorrect is from me and Shaytan and Allah are free from it سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك اشدو الله إله إلا الله