The Etiquettes of Seeking Knowledge2

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The Etiquettes of Seeking Knowledge-2

• Taught by Hacene Chebbani

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Adorn Yourself with Good Manners

• Ibn Sireen said They used to learn manners as
  they would learn Knowledge
• Imam Maliks mother Go to Rabeea, then learn
  from his manners before you learn from his
  knowledge

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Stay Away from Sins

• Al-Shafiee said I complained to my shaykh
  Wakee about my bad memory, and he taught me that
  I should keep away from sin. He said that
  knowledge of Allah is light, and the light of
  Allah is not given to the sinner
• The darkness of sin can not co-exist with the
  light of knowledge.
• You try your best not to fall into the traps of
  Shaytan.
• No one expects you to be perfect.

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Commit Yourself to Fearing Allah

• Verily, only those who fear Allah from His
  servants are the knowledgeable ones
• Al-Faatir-28
• Verily, those who fear their Lord with the
  unseen (they do not see Him), they will have
  forgiveness and a great reward Al-Mulk-12
• The Prophets (pbuh) advise to Muath ibn Jabal
  Fear Allah wheresoever you may be, and follow
  up an evil deed with a good one, it will efface
  it. And deal with mankind with good manners
  At-Tirmithee / Hadith Hasan

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Be Humble

• Do not be arrogant. Iblees was destroyed and
  destined to Hell because of his pride.
• Stern Warnings from The Sunnah.
• No one who has an atoms weight of arrogance in
  his heart will enter paradise. A man said O
  Messenger of Allah, what if a man likes his
  clothes and his shoes to look good? He said
  Allah is beautiful and Loves beauty. Arrogance is
  to reject the truth and look down on people.

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Be Humble- Contin

• 2. On the Day of Resurrection, the arrogant
  people will be gathered like ants in the form of
  men. Humiliation will overwhelm them from all
  sides. They will be driven to a prison in Hell
  called Bawlas, with the hottest fire rising over
  them, and they will be given to drink from the
  juice of the inhabitants of Hell, which is teenat
  al-khabaal At-Tirmithee-2492,
  classed as Hasan by Al-Albaanee.

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Be Humble-Contin

• Debate with good intention and good manners.
• When you debate with someone else, seek for the
  truth.
• Let the truth be your only wanted goal.
• Beware of dispute and argumentation.
• Do not be upset, if the truth comes from the
  mouth of one of your peers or classmates.

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Be Humble-Contin

• The way of the salaf is to refrain for extensive
  dispute and argumentation.
• Al-Hasan Al-basree said about some people who
  indulged themselves in argumentation These
  people have become bored with worship, speech has
  become light upon them, their piety has decreased
  and that is why they speak.

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Your Stance on the mistakes of those who preceded
you

• This is one of the serious traps of Shaytan. Do
  not become happy when you come across a mistake
  of a scholar, so that you may use it to degrade
  him. We should only be happy, because we knew the
  most correct opinion.
• Every scholar has a mistake or a self-delusion.

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Adorn Yourself with Gentleness

• A group of Jews asked for permission to enter
  upon the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) and they said
  As-saam Alaikum (Death be upon you) Aishah
  (ra) said Nay, death be upon you and curses.
  The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said O Aishah,
  Allah loves gentleness in all matters. She said
  Did you not hear what they said? He said I
  answered, Wa Alaikum (and unto you).

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Display Great Poverty to Allah

• Do not rely on your own skills and personal
  talent.
• Fill your heart with reliance upon your Lord and
  keep on asking Him to bless you with
  understanding of the religion.
• The noblest among the noble servants of Allah are
  the ones who rely on Him concerning the matters
  of the Hereafter (knowledge, dawah, and good
  deeds).

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Things to Avoid

• To neglect the state of our hearts.
• To belittle the importance of good manners.
• To listen to lectures or to read books with the
  intention of finding faults and exposing them
• To waste ones time in classifying and labelling
  other students of knowledge and scholars.
• To rush into issuing fatawas and making
  conclusions before we master the tools and the
  foundation of knowledge.