Read In The Name Of Your Lord | Al-Sirat Al-Mustaqeem EP.11 | A Journey With Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri

1 moment mention “Mercy”: 6:36

1. 0:00Last episode, we learned about knowledge,
2. 0:03its importance,
3. 0:05how it honors us,
4. 0:07and we started tackling some of these types of knowledge in The Noble Quran.
5. 0:12Today, we will continue
6. 0:15and complete the list of ten types of knowledge.
7. 0:18May Allah the Mighty and the Majestic benefit us from all of them, Ameen
8. 0:22The fourth type of learning comes from learning from a teacher,
9. 0:27and that teacher could be like math, science, sophisticated knowledge,
10. 0:32or it could be a teacher in life.
11. 0:34Our first teacher was our mom, then our dad, then our older brother,
12. 0:39uncles, aunts.
13. 0:40Then we went to school and we found a teacher.
14. 0:43This teacher not only teaches you what we call like information,
15. 0:48but could also teach you lessons in life
16. 0:52that saves you a lot of time and energy.
17. 0:56The next level of learning is, we already mentioned,
18. 0:59the fifth one is reading, so we can read and write,
19. 1:04and that reading is very, very, very important.
20. 1:08That Allah SWT invited us
21. 1:12to read all the types of knowledge,
22. 1:14but in his name, so that whatever we manufacture
23. 1:18out of that knowledge will not lead to mass destruction,
24. 1:23to wiping out humanity, to wiping out life on planet Earth.
25. 1:28But when you learn in the name of Allah and apply in the name of Allah,
26. 1:33whatever comes out of you will be
27. 1:36merciful, compassionate,
28. 1:39kind, and in service of the creation of Allah
29. 1:43Subhanahu wa Ta'ala
30. 1:45The next level, the sixth level of learning
31. 1:49comes from Revelation,
32. 1:52Allah SWT sent for us, a revelation,
33. 1:57and that's in the Ayahs I read:
34. 2:00(The Most Compassionate, taught the Quran,
35. 2:03created humanity, ˹and˺ taught them speech)
36. 2:05Allah mentioned His divine knowledge,
37. 2:08before mentioning the knowledge that He gifted you
38. 2:12the ability to speak and read and write
39. 2:14because that knowledge is higher
40. 2:17from the Wisest SWT "Al-Hakim"
41. 2:21from the All Knowing, All Hearing Omnipotent, The One Who's not limited
42. 2:25by time and space, The One That doesn't have to learn from trial and error.
43. 2:31The one Who is the source of all knowledge.
44. 2:34You learn from Allah SWT through the revelation,
45. 2:39and that revelation becomes the guidance to your life.
46. 2:43As we said, As-Sirat al-Mustaqim in The Noble Quran
47. 2:47is defined as the book of Allah
48. 2:50Also, it's defined as whatever the Prophet PBUH taught
49. 2:55That's why this is a very important source of knowledge.
50. 2:59The seventh type of knowledge that we learn, is what we call
51. 3:04experiential knowledge.
52. 3:06Allah will make something happen in your life
53. 3:10like you go through a car accident.
54. 3:12You say, I should have been dead, but I was saved and I'm still alive.
55. 3:17And you see the work of God in your life or you go through
56. 3:21an experience that you know that this is not normal.
57. 3:26This is not your average
58. 3:28or logical things that happen in life.
59. 3:31It has no explanation.
60. 3:33And Allah always makes us go through these experiences.
61. 3:37Maybe we will wake up and say: Who made me live?
62. 3:41Who saved my life?
63. 3:42Who healed me?
64. 3:44Who supported me? Who saved me from my own
65. 3:48demise and me, you know, destroying my own life?
66. 3:53And that's another source of knowledge that Allah gives us.
67. 3:56Maybe we will take heed of it.
68. 3:59The next source of knowledge that Allah gives us.
69. 4:02The eighth is inspirational.
70. 4:05Some people, Allah SWT, inspires them.
71. 4:09Like and this doesn't, you don't have to be like a very high special Muslim.
72. 4:14You actually when you make "Istikhara" prayer, you say your Allah, show me
73. 4:18if this is what I'm about to do is good for me or not.
74. 4:22And Allah SWT either inspires you
75. 4:26through a dream or Allah make something happen in your life
76. 4:31that will show you the answer to your question.
77. 4:35So inspirational.
78. 4:38Also, the Prophet PBUH told us
79. 4:41that there are in his Ummah, in his nation, people
80. 4:44that Allah inspires to do good
81. 4:47and Allah inspires with some answers.
82. 4:50And the scholars of this Ummah, throughout the ages, they have been blessed
83. 4:55with inspirations directly from Allah
84. 4:58that goes with the divine revelation, not against it, obviously
85. 5:03The ninth type of knowledge
86. 5:05is a knowledge that we learn from dreams,
87. 5:10you know, these visions and dreams.
88. 5:13You don't even have to be a muslim.
89. 5:15Look at the king at the time of Prophet Yusuf PBUH, Joseph,
90. 5:20the son of Jacob.
91. 5:23What brought him out of jail?
92. 5:25It's actually because the king who was not a Muslim, saw a dream.
93. 5:30Yusuf PBUH, Joseph, was the only one that was able to interpret the dream.
94. 5:36That dream turned to a policy for the entire kingdom
95. 5:41in Egypt for the next 14 years.
96. 5:45Seven years of ease followed with seven years of drought.
97. 5:50A whole nation and its policies,
98. 5:53and its economy was built on a knowledge that was learned from a vision,
99. 5:59a dream.
100. 6:00And when it comes to vision, it's always recommendable to go to someone
101. 6:05who's knowledgeable,
102. 6:06who's righteous, and who loves you before you reveal your visions to them,
103. 6:11he will give you more accurate interpretations of your dream.
104. 6:15And the final type of knowledge that I love mentioned in the Quran
105. 6:19is a knowledge that Allah teaches some people, specifically,
106. 6:24the story of El-Khader with Moses PBHU,
107. 6:30Allah said that he was one of Allah's servants
108. 6:34(A servant of Ours,
109. 6:36to whom We had granted mercy from Us
110. 6:40and enlightened with knowledge of Our Own)
111. 6:43Allah said that He taught that man a knowledge from Him SWT
112. 6:48Now after the coming of Prophet Muhammad PBUH
113. 6:53this knowledge has to be in adherence with the Quran and the Sunnah,
114. 6:58but nevertheless, again, Allah SWT,
115. 7:01sometimes inspires, the scholars of this nation,
116. 7:05the sincere ones, with a knowledge that will help them understand
117. 7:10the divine revelation even deeper and better.
118. 7:13And that knowledge will help the rest of us.
119. 7:16Insha'Allah, Lord of all worlds
120. 7:19Having said that, after learning these ten different types of
121. 7:22ways of learning, Allah
122. 7:26encourages us in the Quran to seek knowledge,
123. 7:30and He asks a question that we all know the answer to:
124. 7:34(Say, "Are those who know equal to those who do not know?”)
125. 7:39Are they the same?
126. 7:40The one who knows and the one who don't know?
127. 7:43We human beings, honor
128. 7:45the people who know more than the people who don't know.
129. 7:49And the more what you know is rare, the more you're honored.
130. 7:54Like, okay, there're doctors,
131. 7:56not everyone is a doctor because it's hard to get there.
132. 7:59And then amongst doctors, if someone is a brain surgeon,
133. 8:04oh my God! So sophisticated, they are more rare.
134. 8:07Or a spine surgeon, more rare.
135. 8:11If someone is an astrophysicist, if someone is
136. 8:15an astronaut, oh my God! Only a few people on planet Earth.
137. 8:20The more rare the knowledge, the more we honor the person higher.
138. 8:25Also, the more the knowledge is important in itself.
139. 8:30Like if someone knows how to fix your radio, which one you honor more?
140. 8:34The one who knows how to fix the radio or the one who knows how to heal you
141. 8:39and give you medicine?
142. 8:40That's why we honor knowledge
143. 8:44based on how crucial it is to us,
144. 8:47how important, how much life and death it is for us.
145. 8:52And that's why we ask the question,
146. 8:54is there more knowledge out there
147. 8:57that is more crucial, more important for your existence
148. 9:02and your eternity than the knowledge of Islam?
149. 9:05The answer is no.
150. 9:07It's the highest knowledge and you're learning about the most important One,
151. 9:12Allah, the creator of the creation, the God Himself.
152. 9:17And then you learn about His angels, you learn about revelation,
153. 9:21you learn about the Prophet. You learn about your goals.
154. 9:23You learn how to walk on the Straight Path.
155. 9:26May Allah grant us that knowledge
156. 9:29and the energy to follow knowledge with action
157. 9:33(Except those who believe and do good)
158. 9:37This is the month of Ramadan, the month of intentions and the month of actions.
159. 9:41May Allah accept from all of us and make us from those
160. 9:45who know the truth and follow the truth.
161. 9:48Ameen Ya Rabb Alameen