How should we learn Quran and Hadith to the best of our ability ?

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The answer to it seems apparently obvious, but still somehow we don’t give/spare much time for it. Please share your motivational quotes and inspirational reasoning to develop thirst for this sea of wisdom and knowledge that has become so easily accessible for us through internet, books…etc. yet we don’t have 1% of the enthusiasm that our forefathers used to have (even though they had least resources for learning).

‎"Seek knowledge, because seeking it for the sake of Allaah is a worship. And knowing it makes you more God-fearing; and searching for it is jihad, teaching it to those who do not know is charity, reviewing and learning it more is like tasbeeh. Through knowledge Allaah will be known and worshipped. With the knowledge Allaah will elevate people and make them leaders and imams, who will in turn guide other people."

[Fatawa Ibn Taymiyya vol.10, p.39]

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I came across this saying recently and it made me think. Most of us think of wisdom, knowledge, and intelligence in terms of information, facts, and IQ. But wisdom, knowledge, and intelligence as presented by Quran is a different thing. It is something that is felt, experienced, and practised.

Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq said: ‘Knowledge is not extensive learning. Rather, it is a light that God casts in the heart of whomever He wills. Knowledge is not extensive learning. Rather it is a light that God instills in the heart of anyone He wishes to guide. Therefore, if you wish to acquire knowledge, first seek the reality of servitude inside yourself, and seek knowledge by the way of adhering to it and then ask God to bless you with it so that He blesses you with its understanding.’

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Sit with scholars

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Very good posts.

I also think that observation, contemplation, search, and discovery is in itself worship.

But I think one has to be virtuous and clean, and also patient before God opens the doors of knowledge to that person.

What if God gives you knowledge of certain things and you misuse it. Or what if God gives you knowledge of few things that you cannot handle, and you get stressed by it.

God gives it in small and slow doses, and God also trains you by inflicting pain to you (as much as you can handle), so you get humble and patient.

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Peace All,

Surah Al Baqarah 2:2 "*This is the Book about which there is no doubt, a guidance for those conscious of Allah"
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In this verse there are two questions for us. (1) Which book have no doubt? (2) Who are those conscious of Allah? I read the Holy Qur'an very slowly and give my full attention on each and every single verse as well as go through hadith too (if required/related).

This is how I read, share, discuss, learn, seek, search and increase my knowledge.

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In my opionion to learn quran to the best our ability we need to look in Quran and Prophet to identify the best source of knowledge.

Following is an hadith from Prophet Mohammad P.B.U.H
“It seems the time approached when I shall be called away (by Allah) and I shall answer that call. I am leaving for you two precious things and if you adhere to them both, you will never go astray after me. They are the Book of Allah and my Progeny, that is my Ahlul Bayt. The two shall never separate from each other until they come to me by the Pool (of Paradise).”
Pleae refer to the following website to get references from Sahih books
http://www.al-islam.org/thaqalayn/nontl/index.htm
http://www.al-islam.org/encyclopedia/chapter1a/1.html
http://www.al-islam.org/encyclopedia/

As per the above hadith it is quite clear that Prophet Mohammad P.B.U.H have asked us to follow Quran and Ahleybait. If you further look into the hadith’s Prophet P.B.U.H also declared the following:

“For whoever I am his Leader (mawla), 'Ali is his Leader (mawla).”
http://www.al-islam.org/ghadir/incident.htm

If you look into the history, you will see Imam Ali AS was there with Prophet at all the times and have defended islam at the time of need and helped islam with his knowledge and wisdom after Prophet Mohammad P.B.U.H. Similary, Imam Jaffar Sadiq who is 6th Imam after Imam Ali and is from his offspring was one of the great knowledgeable. Some of the sunni imams such as Imam Hanafia were student of this great personality. People have benefited from in on other subjects besides islam. Jabir bin Hayan who is known as Father of Chemsitry was also a student of Imam Jaffar Sadiq AS.

Also, if we look in the quran following is the verse that talks about who should we not obey:
Therefore wait patiently for the command of your Lord, and obey not from among them a sinner or an ungrateful one [76:23]

Now if you look in quran to see if it points out any pure personalities. Following is another verse in quran:

And stay in your houses and do not display your finery like the displaying of the ignorance of yore; and keep up prayer, and pay the poor-rate, and obey Allah and His Messenger. Allah only desires to keep away the uncleanness from you, O people of the House! and to purify you a (thorough) purifying.[33:33]

The above verse clearly states that Allah has made Ahleybait the purified ones, and quran instructs us not to obey sinners.

Following is a hadith from Sahih book on this above verse of quran
Narrated Aisha:
One day the Prophet (PBUH&HF) came out afternoon wearing a black cloak (upper garment or gown; long coat), then al-Hasan Ibn Ali came and the Prophet accommodated him under the cloak, then al-Husain came and entered the cloak, then Fatimah came and the Prophet entered her under the cloak, then Ali came and the Prophet entered him to the cloak as well. Then the Prophet recited: “Verily Allah intends to keep off from you every kind of uncleanness O’ People of the House (Ahlul-Bayt), and purify you a perfect purification (the last sentence of Verse 33:33).”
Sunni reference:

  • Sahih Muslim, Chapter of virtues of companions, section of the virtues of the Ahlul-Bayt of the Prophet (PBUH&HF), 1980 Edition Pub. in Saudi Arabia, Arabic version, v4, p1883, Tradition #61.
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I so much want to learn about Islam. I want someone who knows more than me, and then i can sit with him and talk about it for hrs and hrs. I would like my husband to have this knowledge. So we can he can share it with me and we can share it with our kids.

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Peace FairyTale,

Best friend is ‘book’ so you can buy various Islamic books i.e. about Hadith, Islamic History, Story of Qur’an, Life of our Prophet :saw2: Life of Umma-ha-tul-Momineen etc., Start reading Holy Qur’an in sense that you understand each and every verse. If required, than search information (background history) about that verse. Try to share it with others so that you get feed-back, share it with your husband and to kidz in interesting way like a bed time story.

:insh: you’ll gain more knowledge and wisdom.

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^ Thank you. I want to do this, inshAllah some day. At least my heart is there, i have the intention, hopefully i ll be able to do it one day. Right now time is the main issue :(