 So I was asked to talk about this topic, which is the adab of the name, the etiquette of seeking knowledge. And this actually applies to everyone, meaning you are somebody who comes once a month to a school apartment or a class. You are somebody who enrolled in university and you took the path of the dean, the path of knowledge as your career. Or you are someone who stays home, that you love to learn. And you basically do it online, live stream, you read books. It doesn't matter. Because the old result is the same, which is you want to learn about this dean. And this, especially, when we talk about etiquette of aim, we're talking about the etiquette of saying sharia, the etiquette of the sacred knowledge, the knowledge that will get you closer to Allah's pantheon. So as most of you know, we spent beautiful time on the weekend. So what is number one, you think? I'm not going to give lecture. We're going to talk. So what is number one? The meaning, as we learned. The first question, you're going to ask yourself, each one. And that, actually, if I may add, is not only when you are learning the dean of Allah. And I always, when people ask me if some of you may remain, I'm an authorization gynecologist by profession. So people love the medical students come to me and I want to be an OB. And I said, why do you want to be an OB? And this is my usual answer. If you're doing it for money, believe me, go and do it for something else. Go and do something else. We'll give you much better income and less work. So you always have to look at your intention. OK, number two, I'll give it all to you, but let's talk first. Number two, intention you're after for us. Two, take one, self-suffer. Intention, they've done, come to me, we're good. It's about 10 points at least. OK, that's number three. You practice what you love, for sure. OK, it's OK. Don't write, because we're going to give it to you in detail. But I just want you to wake up first. OK, good. This will be the last thing. The last point, you never, and I say this, never learn to teach, because then you will take the right, the wrong intention. Never learn to teach unless you want to teach your children. And you say, I'm not going to be able to raise a good children unless I know. But you're not going to say, I want to help my community. No, no, no, no. This actually will come when Allah wants you. So what's next? I'm sorry? Exactly. Absolutely. You need to be humble. And we're going to talk about this in detail, so I'll give you examples of the humbleness of the real scholars, not me and you and us, the real ones. OK, extend ladies and gentlemen, this is number three. OK. Yes, we said this was the intention. This all comes with the intention. Then the other etiquette is me, is related to the food in terms of it. So we said the intention. He said, you're going to practice what you learned. We said we have to be humble. I can't hear you. Being kind, being gentle, it's not when you learn, you're going to change. OK, I'll take this one. It's OK. It's good. This is fine. Your learning is when you're changing and changing for the better, not becoming arrogant. You see, you know how we are. We learn two habits at once, and with two eyes out. And then everybody else knows nothing. Yeah. OK. See, it's part of things. It seems my life is going to change because I took this path to learn about Allah's command. Things in my life will change. Like what? How long did I look at my time? Who are my sons? How do I look to my teacher and to the people who talk to me? And this is extremely important. How do I look at the people who wrote the books that I am studying? I'm talking about people way before, right? And to actually number two or three, you need to be patient. A sabr al-e-ain, they call it. You really have to be patient. Otherwise, you're not going to learn. Because you're going to give up very quickly, OK? So let's start first. Before we get into this, I'm going to get to this. I'll give it to you one by one. You need to learn one thing before you even start this path. Something which is unfortunately, especially living in this day and age of living in the Western world even more, is something called you need to learn the adab, meaning you need to know to be polite. You know what I'm talking about? Because living in age, what is the character of the human being in general? What does the kid learn as who he is? Absolutely, right? Looking into my eyes, no respect. I don't like it. It's not fair. I answer, right? And that's becoming the norm. That doesn't mean when you are a student in this, we're going to come to this, that you're not going to ask. And you're not going to be a positive aggressive. But the adab with the teachers, you need to train yourself to be an adab, an adab, a person who knows nothing and learning before you even take this path. For example, I'm going to give you some of the examples of the old man, the Imam Mahdi. Right? You all know the Imam Mahdi. He said, come to me to teach me and tell me, go to Rabia, learn from the adab before me. He was a young man or young boy. So he was getting ready to go to the class. Look at yourself or your child. And to teach me means he used to make sure he dressed properly, wear the turban. And she said, go to Rabia, one of the teachers. But to learn politely and manners before you learn anything else. Go and learn manners from him. Manners, meaning how do I sit? Remember, for those of you who were with us in the retreat in the weekend. And you looked at me when I first started talking about this. I thought, the way you sit, the way you handle your book, the way you sit before the Quran. All these are signs of the manners. The more respect you give to this knowledge, Allah will give you more. For example, I belong in Mubarak, a very famous, almost same, and he's a knowledgeable and a haqqeeb. And the other manners is two thirds of knowledge. If you learn to be polite with the knowledge of Allah, it's two thirds of the knowledge itself. And the more polite you are, the more humble you are. Allah will teach you more. Teach you more, gives you more knowledge or makes you understand way easier than you thought. For example, Sufyan Saul, which is a haqqeeb, a very famous one, he said, why do I work in the field of knowledge? This is no good deed to do after the obligations that Allah made the obligations, but to seek knowledge. And he said in his time, the man, meaning man or woman, will never start learning before they start to be polite. Give me an example about us these days. I'm not talking about myself, I'm talking about the new goal. No, I didn't mean it. When you go to do the things, you, the new scholars, you spend their life learning. And we sit in a lecture. And how do we behave, how do we sit, how do we ask? How do we behave when we disagree with the truth or with the teacher about something else? How do we normally, and I'm so satisfied, much more to commentate on, but in general, in general, we think that we are equal, equal, right? And as all the teachers and teachers do, especially when you start taking this job, they tell you, if you're gonna come to learn this game with a full cup, you will learn nothing. You know what it means, because if the cup is full and you're gonna put it in it, what's gonna happen? It's gonna over the full. So whatever your mind is gonna come up, you need to come to this game, to this knowledge, especially the sacred knowledge we're talking about, with an empty cup. I know nothing. You come to a lecture and you say, I know nothing. Once you come with this attitude, Allah will make you see things, you've never seen it before. Give you an example. How many times, and all of you, when you wrote the Quran, what example did you have? We all, how many times did I read the Quran? But when you read it with an open heart, and Allah had opened your arms. How many times you look at one eye and it says, did I read this before? Is this really the one? How come I didn't see this? What happened? It's the same eye, the Quran didn't change. It's you. It's your attitude toward the things. So the other, that you come, the way you learn, the way you sit, the way you look at this knowledge, you need to look at it as a blessing that Allah will not give it to anyone. And if He gives it to you once, and you didn't know the value, and you're not a great photo, Allah will not give it to you again. So for example, also, Abdullah bin Mubarak, he says the following. Mumpahawina the Adab, whomsoever took the manners of learning, not seriously. Allah will punish him by taking away from him the love of doing the extras, the standard. Pay attention to this, these are the small things, but it's extremely important. So if you don't think being polite with your teacher, following what he or she says, when I'm reading the book, the way I sit and I read the book, Allah will not do what He does. We're gonna look at the Sunnah as Cheshamah, what's the meaning? Didn't do the Torqaqa after Maghribah, Cheshamah. So Allah first will take the Sunnah. And He said, How will I be Sunnah? Or will it be HaRman al-Fara'im? And whosoever will take the extra writing, you can lose the obligations. Ask anyone who stopped training, how did they, how did they stop it? The first thing they will tell you is, they stop doing the Sunnah. And then gradually they delay the Salah. And then Salah is done. That's why don't look at any of the Sunnah, enough of Rasulullah s.A.W. Don't look at it as very likely. It's a Sunnah. And whosoever was taken, took the obligations very likely, Allah will derive him from knowledge. So you cannot be a student of knowledge and you do not pray. Let's alone break the door, let alone on time, let's alone the extras. And I brought the final example that I'm talking about every obligation. I can not be, and I've said this many times in the retreat, I can't be a student of knowledge and I start watching TV all the time. You're not going to get it. Allah will take it away from you. Or you will have it, but you'll understand nothing. So you really have to learn the edab of Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And the first thing you start, when you start learning, is what we learned in Fakir. You empty your heart from all the diseases. You cannot look down at people and your arrogant, and you think you're alone. You cannot be jealous from people, except not the jealousy, the victor. The positive jealousy, if someone is a half of a person, I want to be one. If somebody had memorized all the books of hadith, I want to be like that person. If somebody wakes up at four o'clock every day for the amulet, I want to be like that. That's okay. But not who is she? She's with me in the classroom, see? No. You need to empty all this, all these bad characters in you. You look at this, you memorize this, you practice this, you ask Allah to give you this, then you come to the following points of Al-Ali. Did you get my point? So the first thing is work on your manners. Work on your manners. And if Allah says to give you a sheikh or a teacher, who? First on these points you are lucky. Because we too, we don't see Allah these days. Unfortunately, if Allah gives you one who really pay attention to the adab of the aim, then you are absolutely lucky. Now come to the points. Number one is Al-Ikhlaj, intention. Intention means what? What's intention? Simple question. What is intention? What's intention? There's one answer to this question, is why? Why I'm doing this? Why you're here? Why do you want to watch TV? Why do you want to go to college? This is this question, the answer is the near. So I want to learn because I want to be rich. Your near is to be rich. So the first thing is why you want to learn this? Why? The answer has to be only one answer. And that is to get close to Allah for a long time. To get close to Allah for a long time. Is Ikhlaj, sincerity, even obligation, or some extra? It's an obligation, it's not an obligation. Remember what we said, if you're going to give me, I hope you need to give me the value, you're going to give me a rule and give me your truth. I can easily come and tell you, you know it is not your right, by the way. Absolutely it's an obligation. But who says it? I love Tant'Aireh. And where is that? It's the thought of Zuma, and the thought of Baniyya. وما أميروا إلا ليعبد الله نحل الصينة له الدين. And you were not ordered but to worship Allah alone with sincerity. So this, especially this knowledge, this kind of knowledge, no reason. No reason, you are seeking it, but to get close to Allah for a long time. How about there's no other place I can study and Allah just took me in that path? There's nothing there. I couldn't get to any college, and then I, you know what? Okay, let me get a year to study with you. What do I do? Where is my Naniyya here? Is that possible? Yeah? Or you got accepted but of this year, 2018. And he said, you know what? I have one year. Why do I want to stay home? Let me join California Institute of University, and then I'll study. What do you do with it? Hmm? So I go again. Exactly, remember what you learned? You always examine your Naniyya because the Naniyya can change. You apply to some studies because you really love it. And then after a month you find out that this is too difficult. This is not what I want, right? You need to re-look at your Naniyya and say, no, if you don't like it, but it's gonna be for Allah. So you come in here and you said, you know what, the only reason I'm here because there's nothing else I can do, fine? You look at your Naniyya, you know what? Allah is so generous. He brought me here. I wasn't thinking, why don't I take the word and I'm gonna do it for Allah's content. So you re-visit your Naniyya. And I will follow you in thought for a year to see this beautiful Habib. Come so ever, man ta'alana imi bimma yubta abihil waj'illahi la yata'alama illa liyusibudiyya a'adam minad dinya laminidya a'araf al-jannah yawm al-tiam Come so ever, and this is Habib Ahmed and Abu Dawud Come so ever, learn this game. Any kind of game, any kind of knowledge that will supposedly in dinya mat and dinya meaning it will get you close to Allah. I wanna memorize the Quran. I wanna get to Islamic studies. I wanna be a PhD student in Islamic studies. This is obviously knowledge of dinya. Come so ever do this. But for no reason but to get a reward in this dinya. For example, I learned there is an opening and for example, serving California University for a chapter. And the only way I can get this chapter and I really want to be part of the faculty in University of California is to study Islamic studies. So I'm gonna go and do this because I wanna be a chapter because I wanna be on the faculty. Come so ever do this. To get something of the dinya or he or she will not smell the smell of dinya. Will not smell the smell of dinya. And there's nothing secret and learning Quran, Allah, Allah, Rasulullah, Islam, etc. But you really have to look at your dinya. For example, why you're here today? Why you're here today? Don't tell me. InshaAllah, for Allah's sake, but that's my point. You really have to keep asking yourself why I'm doing this? Why I'm learning? And that's both your children. Why do you want your child to be a house of Allah? Why not? Because if the boat, everybody else is, it's becoming something that's beautiful. It's like spreading, I would say disease. It's a spreading character, which is beautiful. That's why. I'm asking you, why do you wanna be? You have to look at this because there are people in front in there when you go out, people say, oh, Mashallah, her children are fat. And they're fat for Allah? Right? Or for yourself. So definitely look at your dinya. What is the famous hadith about dinya? The famous hadith. Any book you open, the book of hadith, the first hadith on al-Bukhari, what is that? Inna al-Ahmar al-Dinya. Right? Gordy, these are measured according to the intention. Right? And you know the famous hadith, why the man who wanted to go to Medina to get married to a woman. And when they came to Al-Fali, Sultr-Firam said, Ya Rasoolallah, we can let him come with us. He only coming with us because he wants to marry a woman. And what was the answer? If he's coming to marry the woman, then he will get the reward of marrying the woman. And we can enjoy the will of Allah and Rasoolallah. If he's coming with us for Allah and his Rasul, he will get the reward for Allah of migrating for Allah in his messenger. So, dinya is the most important thing. In everything we do, let alone when we study for Allah's time and time. Abu Yusuf, how many of you are from here? What? So, what is Abu Yusuf? Okay. Abu Yusuf is, Shahid, the Imam. He's a student here. So, I'll tell you, right? Okay. So, Abu Yusuf, he said, I want to learn this one for Allah's time and time. I have never looked at this one. This is Abu Yusuf. So, I'm not looking at this one. I'm not. I'm not looking at this one. I'm not looking at you unless Allah wills it. Okay, I'm going to translate. He said, I learned this only for Allah. Meaning, don't look for all the rewards. And he said, whenever I sit in a gathering, and my linear is only to be humble to Allah's time and time. I have never looked, but Allah have elevated me. And whenever I start in a gathering to show that I know I did not get up and Allah have put me down. And who is this? Abu Yusuf. So, always, never, never do, especially this thing, this knowledge. Don't do this for any reason, but to please Allah. And that's a continuous question. If I talk to Allah, I'll feel happy with me. Is this how you want me to do this? Is this the reason you? You're Allah. It has not been changing. Show me. And don't worry what people talk about you. People can praise and people cannot praise. It doesn't matter. Remember, what's the sign of that you are sincere to Allah? In general, in anything you do, what is the sign? And the teaching that scholars always teach you this, they say, A'lamat al-Ikhlas. And you say, I'm not sure what's done. The sign that you are sincere to Allah, praise and no praise is the sign. So, if people look at you and say, You know a lot about Allah. You're the best person ever. And people look at you and say, You are the worst ever. No change inside you. Then you are sincere to Allah. We look at you. And this is everything. You know, the kids praise the way I talk. The kids do not praise the way I talk. I teach what you are. The kids say, Allah says, Daddy, you gave me this. Daddy, you didn't do anything for me all your life. It doesn't matter. Because I'm doing it for Allah. So, people, praise, heart, life, don't praise people too much. Because then we get used to it and our ears will get used to it and we'll miss it. Because it's the less loves it, us loves to be praised. So, once you heard them the same, then you are in a good shape. So the first thing is, A'lamat al-Ikhlas. Number two, which we, we didn't mention it, we're gonna say. Number two is to Allah. Takwa, you have to be Allah conscious. You have to be Allah mindful. You have to look at Allah in every step you do. And one of the nicest, the most beautiful definitions of Takwa is actually two of the scholars. One of them, I don't remember his name, who said, And you did you kafaisu, kafaisu, and you did you kafaisu your religion. And you did you kafaisu your religion. And Allah is kafaisu your religion. Allah will find you where He wants you to be. And He will not miss you where He wants you to be. Or the other way you say it, He will find you where He wants you to be and He will not find you where He doesn't want you to be. For example, Farmer Sada, where should I be? I'm of Sada. Where should I be? On my Sada. On my Masala, in the Masjid. I shouldn't be watching TV or talking on the phone. I'm not talking about emergencies. There's no emergency TV, by the way. And on the phone. I'm talking about regular life. Takwa, and you did you kafaisu your religion. He finds you where He wants you to be. Al-Qudnafabir, another scholar, he defined Takwa beautifully. And Ta'amal, the ta'at of Allah You work, do, sorry, anything in your life. What pleases Allah? Ta'atulah, it's an obedience to Allah. And how do you know this? They look at what Allah taught us. And for only one reason, you want His pleasure. Ta'amal, ta'atulah, you work, do, say, in your life. Everything what pleases Allah. Al-A'nourah, you work, do, say, in your life. Everything what pleases Allah. Al-A'nourah, me, Allah, what He showed me and taught me, not the way I like it. And you only, only you want His pleasure. So this is the taqwa. Taqwa, Allah, there is no student of knowledge. And he or she is in the path of obedience to Allah. And I'm talking about everything. And we said this many times, obedience of Allah is not what you do. The obedience of Allah is, don't do. He told me, don't do something. My obedience, Allah, is to follow this. When He tells me, lower your days. And this is to man and woman. What does that mean? Me, I need to lower your days. My days. It's not if and but. And we live in America, we live in this day and age. He said, lower your days. And this is the real taqwa. This is a clear proof from the Quran. Allah says, don't backbite. Meaning, don't backbite. There's not if and but, and I didn't mean it. And it says, don't backbite. So taqwa Allah, and Allah said it clearly in Surat al-Baqarah. You want to learn? What do you do? Have taqwa. What's taqwa Allah? Well, you are in the maqam of Allah. You practice taqwa with what you teach. And you're going to say, oh, Allah is going to teach you. He's going to teach you by sending you teachers. He's going to teach you by making you learn what you are learning. He's going to teach you by making you practice. He's going to teach you by sending you people who dust things in front of you, which things that please Allah, and you think it's very easy and nice, by you having the taqwa of Allah's taqwa. And I keep using the word taqwa because our ears needs to get used to this word. Itaqilah. Itaqilah, meaning what in general, is put a field between you and the wrath, the anger of Allah and His punishment. And how do I do this? One or the other. So I can't be a student of knowledge or I'm memorizing the Quran or I'm learning Sa'did or whatever that's being close to Allah. And I have a morning life, and then I come home, and I am done. I'm like anybody else. You talk as people talk, and you do what other people does. You can do this. That's Allah. And you all know the famous ayah, and يتب الله يضع له مصاعدة. Whosoever practices the taqwa of Allah, Allah will give him ways, open ways to Him. And the best to Him, the best system as Allah will give you, is a good knowledge. Knowledge between you and Him. So first of all, two. Any first thing first of all. Clear? Not to her? My love, keep it. Ya Rabbi, I mean first. Number two. Number three. Three, you practice what you learn immediately. The famous ayah for tizmal. And the first line, the first step, to learn you need to listen. And don't rush and come to conclude. I know this. This is not good. I'm not interested. This is not good. Get me anywhere. Don't do this. يستميعون القول. And Allah didn't say, يستميعون أقصى القول. They'll listen to the best. No, they listen to everything. So يستميعون أقصى القول. They follow the best of it. So you've run five lectures about, for example, صلى. You're gonna listen to the best. And then you're gonna follow the best one. Meaning, the closest to the closest to the Qur'an. The easiest one I can do according to these things. يستميعون أقصى القول. You need to practice. I read, and he said, يعمل يستفع بالعمل. And knowledge call for actions. وَإِنَّا تَرَكَهُ فَرْتَفَرْ. If you're not gonna practice, knowledge will go away. How many times we started, how many of you, I mean, if you can show me how that's good, if not, it's okay. Started the course. What's the drop rate of course, Islamic courses? So it must affect. What is it? 50%? Yes. You're Allah. And the Qur'an's food is 50% of the food. This is one known statistics. So the class starts at 10, and then they get a five grade grade. And now 70% is even more. Why do you think this? Number one, because you don't practice. And number one, I think it's our new year. We have been to look at the new year. And number two is because you don't practice. And we learned, for example, our time of Salah. What's our time of Salah? Can I ask? Is it okay if I ask? What's the pillars of Salah? Just give me a number. Hold me there. Regardless of the Mada'ud. Other than Muna and Yalfa. And of course there's no Salah. Just give me a number. Throw a number. The pillars of Salah, meaning if you didn't do it, if you missed it, that Salah is invalid. You did not do Salah. You just moved it. Give me one time for different numbers. Give me one time. A Kibirat-ul-Isra, al-Pahandana. And five to five, okay? Before this one, take it one by one, so you'll never forget it. And there's a difference. It's outside or in five Salah. That's fine. We will say that's okay. But there's one before I'll go for the call. That's all before. I'm talking about inside. It's about Allah, welcome. There's one before you go for the call. When I pray for it, and I have no excuse, al-Qiyam, you have to be standing. Al-Qiyam, al-Qudra, they call. Right? You want to go more? Three in Rukua, three in Sidhuud, and then the last, the Jalf al-Asirah. And then you have the last Tsehud, and then you have the Tseen. And then you have the sequences. It has to be in that sequence. And you have the Uqma-e-Nan. You have to take your time as well. These are all these things. I don't want to do too much because I'm going to talk about how you will leave. But the point I'm trying to make, if I pray daily, and I don't know the al-Qan, or if I memorize the al-Qan, and I'm not practicing them, I'm not going to learn anything, you need to practice what you learn. Whatever you learn, the last time you attended a lecture, or listened to a YouTube, or read a book. This is all a chapter thing. Or you listen to an e-book, or read an e-book, or listen to an audiobook. You need to start practicing. It's difficult to answer that one. Make it easy. But don't move. And you know all the Suf-tahabah when they memorize the Qur'an. How did they memorize the Qur'an? I said, Allah, Allah has the same explanation. We did not move. Ten ayat, we did not. Move to the next ten ayat. Before we memorized, understood, and practiced. So, I'm in, and I'm out. And I also listened to what he said. In yaman yuradu-l'ayn-il'amal. The reason you learn is to practice. Do not leave them. Look at this one. Don't leave knowledge to practice. Meaning, I don't have time to study. I'm going to do tiyam-ul-layn. I'm going to read the Qur'an. I'm going to memorize. So I'm not going to do anything. Don't do that. And don't leave the amal for al-ayn. And don't not practice because you're studying. You know what? I'm studying. I'll have time for al-qarqina. I'll have time to read my Qur'an. I'm studying. You need to look to the balance. You need to look to the balance. You have to practice what you learn. Whatever you learn. Practice it before you go to the next one. So far, we learned. And the two have to call for al-qarqina. Number three is practice. Number four, be patient. Be patient. You have too many forces. Work against us when we are learning the sacred knowledge. What's the first force against us? Before shaitan, you always throw it on shaitan. Before shaitan. It's us. Yes. Us. Me. Inside me. Right? It's boring. It's too hard. What am I going to get out of it? I want to do this. I want to do that. I want to sleep. So number one, I'm going to work against my next. Two is absolutely shaitan. And how shaitan will operate. We have so many ways to counteract it. One way we will operate is through people. So many of you people will look at us and say, what are you studying? So how much they will pay you? What job you will get? Right? Can I be a little bit tougher? So when you're a son or a daughter wants to study Islamic studies, right? What do you normally tell them? Go to medical school. Finish medical school and then study Islamic studies. Two or five. Why? Why is it so important to be a physician? I'm one. I'm not making fun of them. I'm one of them. But why is it so important? Because we can make, we make more money than Islamic studies. So shaitan will come through your friends, your parents, your colleagues. What are you doing, especially if you already established why you're doing this? What else is going to come to you? What to me, what to us? Can I tell you? It's too difficult. This is way too hard. You cannot do this, especially if you're not 18, 19. You know, you finish college and you're working. And I'll come and tell you, this is way too old for this. There's no age limit. There's no age limit. You have not put age limit to memorize the Quran or to learn about the Raffa'a As-Salaam or to learn how to get close to Allah sometime. Never. That's it. What's the other way, shaitan, to tell you? Ask yourself why you're not doing it. Then you will know the answers. Why you're not doing it? Tell me all half time. Right? I'm too busy. You don't have time to watch TV? You don't have time to cook? You don't have to entertain time to entertain people every weekend? Either invited or you have this? You have time for that? Or why don't I have time for the study? Is that why shaitan comes to me? Oh, does it come to me that you don't have time for the work to go out? No, no, you need to feel good about yourself. So make some time off around. So you need to be patient against yourself, against the shaitan. Absolutely. One of the tools, one of the ayahs that you basically tack it with you as you are studying memorizing the Quran, is the ayah of Fortez-Zumar. In Le-Mai-Wa-Fah, Fahad-e-Roonah, the Ghayri Shifah, verily, those patient people, people who are patient, people who practice patience, they will be rewarded unaccounted for. And the scholar teaches you that, Allah swt, in the Quran, two things, he said there is no accounted, a fixed amount of reward. Everything he says, one comes from except two things, one in the Quran and one in the Hadith. One is, sabr. In Le-Mai-Wa-Fah, Fahad-e-Roonah, Ad-Lahum-e-Reid-Shifah, verily, those who practice patience, who their character is patient, Allah will reward them. And the second one is fasting, which is part of sabr. Al-Mas'aleel Fahad-e-Sahad, Fahad-e-Fuqs. And he said, As-Sawmu, Allah Fahad-e-Sahad, As-Sawmu, Reewana, Ad-Jibid. Fasting is for me, and I will reward you. How much? So you really have to practice patience with this. You need to teach yourself to be patient. Why do I need patience? I need patience. Number one, to find the right place I want to study. The right school, the right program. These days you have to pay for it. These days you have to time off. You have to go to the teachers. You have to be patient for the teachers who can come to this. Some teachers may be not your style. Some teachers may be tough. Some teachers may be not the way you are used to. You need to be patient for this. And you're going to beg and ask Allah to give you patience. Because there's the main reason why people drop out, because they're not patient. They're going to say, I'm not going to be able to do this. This is too much for me. Don't do this at all. The more that you have to go, there's a Fahad-e-Fuqs which should probably most of you, if not all of you, know the meaning. Allah showed the meaning of it. When you try to get close to Allah and you come in an arm length, how Allah will come to you, in a leg-wide length. So I take one step forward, but Allah will take two steps forward. I'll take two, Allah will take ten. How? I mean, Allah's hand is not moving, he's not coming. This is how it is. You are so finding it difficult to study. Finding it difficult to stay in that program. Just to stay. Turn to Allah and say, Ya Rabbi, I want to come close to you. What's going to happen? You're going to feel different. Allah will find your teacher who you love. Or a friend who's going to really make you feel it's happened. Or suddenly you're going to start enjoying it. Or you're going to find it's really easy. What happened? You're the same young being. What happened is, you talk to Allah, you want to get close to Him. Talk to this person. You have to be patient. Asfabra'al-alameen. It doesn't come. Actually, and I say this all the time, I've been in my profession, any knowledge, you are learning, you need to be patient. In residency, I'm obligatory. In residency, you work 18 hours straight, sometimes 36 hours. You work 18, then you're on call, then you finish next day, and you go. When I look back, I was like, how did I do that? Wow, because I love this, and I want to do it. And I'd like to be the patient. Same thing when you study the day of Allah's campaign. Just say, Allah will make it easy. The people who learned is not better than me. And I always say this to myself. Allah says, Allah gave us all two eyes, two ears, one tongue, and the same brain. Nobody was given four, and I was given two. So I say, I can't, no. But this place is how much you have to be patient and endurance. How much you really want to be. And I always say this to the ladies. Who thinks any kind of a food that has a lot of books, how much it takes you? Two or three hours to get things ready for this. Some people look at you and say, I can never do this. You know, I'm just going to pick up the phone and order. Why do you do it? Because you love it. You want it. So anything you want. Any of you who love it, Allah will make it easy. And you just keep going. You just keep going. And the thing is today is Friday. What did Sayyidina Musa do? What's Friday? What did I say Friday? Four to five. So there are two trials we sort of found. So if a cat talks about trials, things we will be tested in this dunya. We're going to be tested in our money, we're going to be tested in our knowledge, and we're going to be tested in our power. So the story of Sayyidina Musa is about what? About knowledge. Sayyidina Musa, which is going to come to this, Sayyidina Musa saw that she knows everything. And Allah sent him someone who knows way more than them. First thing Sayyidina Musa said, told Sayyidina Musa, you're not going to be tested. Because it is hard. In the current of Fada'a, you will not be able, right? And what did Sayyidina Musa first said? She did not give up, I tell you. No, no, no. I will buy the grace of Allah, I'll be tested. This is what you tell yourself. I will be tested. And keep reminding yourself that people who learn are not because of me. They don't have anything more than I do, except more resolved. So Niyah, Allah, your pure intention, Allah's conscious, practice what you learned, and be tested, finding. Don't decide to ask. The student of knowledge wants to learn, and they do not understand everything. You do not know everything. Especially for those of you who don't know Arabic language. There's a lot of the books of deans or in Arabic. They learn the Quran. Don't be shy. Having said that, the other way around is don't be too arrogant. And you learn how to ask the youth or your teachers, because it's part of the other, right? And if you disagree, and it's going to come, of course you will disagree with people, because they're the different opinions. How are you going to present this? And never ever, in this part, you say to your teacher, you're wrong. You're done. Allah will not teach you. Most of the youth, the ones who Allah gave them, they would not get offended by what you say. Because they're meaners for Allah. But you will not be wronged. Also, you're wronged. This is how I learned, right? You always, what do you say? You know what? I'm probably wrong, but that's what I read. Can you please explain it to me? And then, probably your teacher is going to tell you, no, there's different opinions. I'm going to start learning about different opinions especially in the future. So ask. And I always look to the women. They ask, Rasul Allah SAW, to ask questions. I am an OBGYN now. And I feel very uncomfortable talking about it. And they absolutely did not have it. They were not hesitant to ask. Who asked Rasul Allah SAW about this situation? And he said, the Qur'an, they asked you about this situation. Who asked her? The answer is in the next ayah. Who asked? Al-Fahadah. They asked you about this situation. All of them, it's mean, it's hardship. So ask these women, stay away from the woman in during this situation. Why? They asked you about the Qamri and the Masjid. And they asked you about gambling and about alcohol. They asked. And the woman asked Rasul Allah SAW, then you asked. Because if you don't understand, you need to understand. But before you ask, you need to learn the other. The etiquette of asking. Ask with an etiquette. Don't ask with. And for example, when you come in these days, you hear people say, I read in the internet. I must say the internet is wrong. No, there's a lot of beautiful information there on the net. But there's also a lot of information you need to not read. And unless you have the knowledge, you're not going to be able to differentiate. So you cannot come and argue with a scholar saying, I read on the internet. Let alone other things we hear. So ask, and learn the edab of the asking. Number six, which the brother said it, be humble. Be humble. The more you're humble, the more Allah will teach you. The one that I know, I've seen people. Yeah, I mean, if I tell you they are walking in the Quran, I'm not exaggerating. And I'm talking about women. Some of my teachers were walking in the Quran. They talk one line and they quote the ayah with nothing in front of them. I've seen women, they quote the hadiths by the senate, by everything. And you see them. If you start even to say, JazakAllah, their faith become red and they tell you, what do I do? Well, none of you are lucky. And here we are. We learn this and that. We memorize this or this. And we start becoming, and if they don't call us this name or that name, we will be very upset. Be humble. Be humble. Be humble. And even in Rasul Aleyhi Salatu Wasalaam, Allah SWT gave him the knowledge. What was the only dua that Allah asked him in the Quran to ask for more? And ta'ha, wa qarabbi zidni ilmah. And look at the way of the dua. Wa qul say, Rabbi, my Lord, Zidni increase me in knowledge. Meaning, I'm not going to do it. It's not me. It's not my, because I'm very smart, because I'm very hardworking, eye and eye. Wa qarabbi zidni. You're going to increase me in knowledge. That's humbleness. Very humble. And Qaidna Omar said, beautiful one. Ta'allamu l-alim. Learn the knowledge. Wa ta'allamu l-al-sakina wa l-waqara. And learn for it to be humble, sakinah, to be sireen, to be calm, and to have dignity. Wa ta'wazawdi man ta'allimu l-mim man ta'allamu. Lower yourself to those who you are teaching and to those who you are learning from. Lower yourself. Sometimes you get your teacher 20, 25 years younger than you. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter the age. It's not about the age. It's about who knows more, right? The teacher can be older, the teacher can be younger. I have my patients, my patients who are my teachers. When I am in the office, they call me the daughter, but when I am their student, they call me by my name. And I'm very happy with this. And the same thing. I don't call them by their first names because they are my creation. No, I'm in the class, I'm their student. And the same thing here. You don't look and say, what does he know? He just graduated. It doesn't matter. He learned. He knows more. Now, by the word, you know her. They're giving you their time, and you learn from them. Each one you can learn from them something. So ta'allamu l-alim. Learn the knowledge. Be humble to those who teach you. And those who you are learning. Wa laa ta'allamu l-alimah. And don't be so arrogant and mighty. In no way, your knowledge is going to combine with your ignorance. If you are ignorant, then you are arrogant. This doesn't come together. It does not come together. And Imam Malik told Harun Rashid, if you are ignorant, then you are arrogant. When you are taught something, people should see the result on you. When you are taught something, people should see the result on you. It's not I know, and I just say, people have to see it. You learned, for example, you learned not to look down at people. You learned arrogant is a major thing. And people should see this in your behavior. So when you enter, and you entered, and you are the last one to enter, and everybody could be a good play. And you are the oldest person, but that's the only place available to take it. You learn not to be arrogant. You learn to be humble. Then you're going to go and say to that, Allah gave me that piece, I can get that one down. You practice seeing this, and see what Allah will give you. Five people will get up and give you the other seat because they're not looking for it. So definitely be humble. Imam Shafiq, he said, no one see this knowledge without this, and he will be successful. But those who see this knowledge by being very humble and living the minimum and serve the knowledgeable, he will be successful. Serve the people who teach you. And I'm not saying this because I'm saying, I'm teaching, we are older than that. I'm saying this in general because we see this, we're losing this. The people who teach us, you should never, it's like your parents, you will never forget that they'll save us upon you. They have to be part of your du'a. Have to be part of it, whatever they taught you. They taught you how to read the Fatiha. And you say it's only a Fatiha, it's al-Fatiha. Anything they teach you, younger or older, make a du'a for them. And Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, make you be able to teach someone, including your children, and they will make a du'a for them. So always be humble. Number seven, Sheikh Mustafa, tell me, when do we have to start? Oh, three minutes, six minutes. Okay, so I'm just gonna give you the rest. Maybe I'm not gonna get into detail because we need to start. Number seven, Al-Dimmah, you need to have high bar. Raise the bar when you are learning this deal. Raise the bar. Don't say, I'm gonna, for example, memorize the bar. It's okay if I memorize jizamah. Don't say this. Say, I'm gonna memorize the whole bar. Raise the bar. You know what I'm saying? But when you have guests coming to your home, do you give them one dish? Of course not. At least five, six, or ten. Why would I have my guests? Why would they have my guests? So why would Allah find out it's okay when jizam? Raise the bar. And I'll say this always, this is beautiful, Hadith, and they always remind you of this, Hadith, when you are learning this deal. Hadith, in eternity, Allah SAW, said, you're telling hams of your hams. Take the advantage of five, you saw five. Some of you may know this, Hadith. And if you all know it, al-hamdulillah, that's what meditators are gonna mean. Remind the reminder, benefit those who are the believers. If you're in hams of your hams, take advantage of five, you saw five. Shababika, tabla haramika. Being young, youth, you have energy, you have the resolve, you don't mind, you don't need much sleep, you have the energy, you don't need to eat that much, you don't need to sleep at all. Before you get up, Shababika, tabla haramika. Shafakika, tabla sakhamika. Your health, before you get sleep. You have a habit, you cannot fast. You start having high blood pressure, the tradition will tell you, maybe it's all a good idea. You have diabetes, you can get it. Shafakika, tabla, sakhamika. For all of you, tabla sakhamika. You have three times before you get busy. You're single, before you get married. You only married with no children, before you have children. It's for more, before school starts. This is all for a free time, free time, that's why I always say this to myself and to everybody. Muslims should never say they're bored. What is boredy? You have so many things to do on this track, and you tell me I'm bored, or I'll get depressed because I have nothing else to do. Farah, tabla, sakhamika. Zina, tabla, sakhamika. You have wealth, use it for Allah, for your benefit before you get bored, what do you mean that's bored? Things change, or you'll have too much responsibilities. And the last book of the list. Like today, it's amazing, and it comes to be not a Muslim, but God and I are okay when we will enter. It's amazing. And you know, you should say, hi, how are you? I said, how are you? He said, I'm perfect. And I looked at him, he said, I'm alive. He said, Allah, I'll remember this, Habib, you're alive before you die. So I'm human, take the human, be how high he's old. And I'm just gonna give you the rest of this, one by one, and then we can always look at that later on. Be extremely important in knowledge, is your friend, a Farah, the Fiyar's Farah. Make sure those friends who, if they are not better than you, they are with you, never, ever, take a friend who's gonna put you down. Because then you will not continue. Don't have a friend who says, what are you doing? Oh, I tried, it didn't work. Don't waste your time, don't do that. Take a friend who's really, and they are above you, and you say, oh, come on in, it's not a big deal, you see it. In the beginning, it's hard, Allah will make it easy. That's what you want. Number nine, time. You need to be time-efficient as I say it in these days and age. Very efficient. You don't waste your time. You don't do something that takes five minutes, you do it for 30 minutes, you're wasting your time. You have to be extremely efficient, the least to do, and everyone, how much it takes, you will give it that much time. Be open to different opinion. And this by itself means the whole lecture. Be open to different opinion. Especially when we come to Fadah. These are all scholars who differ. Who are we to say who's right or wrong? Be open, especially when you are lying in the different level, or different opinion, or be open, be open. And number 12, which we talked about in the beginning, politeness with your teacher. Politeness with your, I cannot stress on this. I can't stress on this. Extreme politeness, extreme politeness. Sayyidina Abdullah Dina Abbas, Hidr ul-Una, they call him. He is like the ink of this ummah, meaning he's the one who knows everything. He used to, Anas would be Anas, which is the, the, the, the, the, the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, peace be upon him. Sayyidina Anas is, Sayyidina Abdullah Dina Abbas told the donkey of Sayyidina Anas, because Sayyidina Anas taught him his language. And he said, this is what he learned from Rasul al-Assad Hussain. Sayyidina Abdullah Dina Abbas, the cousin of Rasul al-Assad Hussain. And Sayyidina Anas is the third of Rasul al-Assad Hussain. But because he learned from him, he used to call his, and Sayyidina Anas was on the donkey, or on them, or on the horse, and he pulls the horse. And I've been mashing, mashing him. Now, writing the knowledge, or reviewing the knowledge, and memorizing the knowledge. What you are writing, if you're not going to look at it again, then nothing is going to stay here. So you write, you review, you memorize, write, review, memorize. The last thing is you call people for Allah. When Allah hits you for that. You never do it because you want to do it, Da'wah. Remember, in the, in the retreat we said this? What is Da'wah in the case of, you don't invite people to something you don't have. You invite people to your room and you have a house. You invite people to this day when you are practicing this day. So last thing is you use your knowledge to teach, and I will say the first good people you teach is your household. If you teach your children, Alhamdulillah, we will have that ummah of ulama which is focused on your house itself. Inzaakumullahu fayrah, Alhamdulillahi wabakum allah wabakum. Alhamdulillahi wabakum, Asfra khiraka wa atiwee l-kabu'laik Wa'lalati l-lil nahu Muhammad Wa'liyuhu as-habi taghneen. Any questions, any comments? Okay, so the questions for those of you who didn't hear is, she has a small halaqah of girls. Okay, and we just said you do not learn the name to teach. But if Allah already puts you in that position, then you should not be teaching unless you have a little bit of freedom. So if you have 10 angel girls, for example, let's say, 12 to 13, 14, what are the things you need to do? And you need to go and look it up. Two things. The essential of this day, which is further on, the obligation. Like these girls need to learn about Sada. You'll be surprised how many women don't learn anything about Sada or many other about Tahrara, or about Udu, or about Wuz also. So these are the essentials. Then comes the most important after this is the challenges of this day and age. What these girls see when they go to public schools. And if any of you have not been to public school, you need to go there. One day Allah invited me to speak to a high schooler. Allah knows when I left what I was saying. And I was like, ya Allah, just keep the distance strong from all the fit in that school. Right? So yes, if I am already in that position, Allah puts me in that position, then I need to go and study. But I need to study the current, the important, what is really. For the girls this is. First thing is this, then the challenges. And you need to make them trust you and open up to you. Okay, and don't get upset when they ask you these challenging questions. And I'm going to show you it here. For example, they ask about homosexuality. This is very common. Everyone is talking about it. You don't know. Nothing wrong with saying, you know what? Let me look at that. Because I don't have enough knowledge. I don't want to say something that is not right. And then you take that question and you ask a scholar. And you come back. So if you are already in this, yes. But if you have girls yourself, absolutely. And then what is needed for that group? And you're not going to take them to a different opinion or follow up. Don't do that. It's just what they need. But absolutely. Don't start and say, I don't know anything. Know your limit and teach what is essential. And every time before you go, before you open your mouth. I'm going to make me say what causes you. You put me in that position. Allah will help me. If He will make it to you then. Okay. JazakAllah. Spank Allah. Excuse me. God bless. Peace be upon you. of the U.S. Habitat for Humanity.