05/12/2022
Reviewed
Q&A Session for unschooled Webiner
Question
Is hifdh enough with regards to learning about our Deen or do we have to go to other standard Madrasah to learn other aspects of the Deen?*
The fact is that hifdh is not enough. If one is still very young, the scholars advised that we start with hifdh because it is something that often becomes very difficult when we grow older.
But, if we look at its importance, we'd see that memorising the Qur'an is not the only important thing out of all the things we need to learn regarding the Deen, because memorising the Qur'an would not make you any different from the Khawarij - the terrorists who bomb people. They also memorize the Qur'an but they do not UNDERSTAND the Qur'an.
So, if you have to choose between understanding the Qur'an: learning Arabiyyah, learning the books of tafsir and acting upon them etc and just memorising the Qur'an, then, the former is more important.
As a matter of fact, at the time when the prophet (peace be upon him) died, there were about 300,000 of his companions and only about 10 of them had memorized the Qur'an. Some of the companions reported that they never used to memorise anything from the Qur'an until they understood its meaning and why it was revealed before they'd go on to memorise the next verse.
Memorising the Qur'an is not even close to being enough. You'll need to understand aqeedah: Aqeedah deals with 'Who is Allaah?' 'What are the attributes of Allaah?' These are the things that are going to teach you how to have a relationship with Allaah.
We have the aspect that that of Aqeedah, of talking about the day of Qiyamah and a lot of different things like that.
Also, books that have to do with softening the heart by Ibn Qayyim and Ibn Tamiyyah; they are books that have to be studied. Other aspects of the Deen too like: Tafsir, Fiqh etc.
Question:
Is there anything like I can't cope with learning from online classes? If one is in such situation, how can one solve it?
Answer:
Naturally, for many of us, there are ways we learn better. There are people who do not like to be taught everything, they prefer to explore on their own, only for some things to be pointed out to them.
And there are people who like to be taught everything.
If you know that online learning is not your natural thing (like you are bit into it), you should try to look for a physical place where you can learn from.
But, ruling out online learning completely these days is going to make you miss out on a lot of opportunities to learn easily and freely.
When you consider the time you spend on going to physical classes and all, they usually end up being a waste of time. When you have a situation of someone who don't have a physical class to learn something they want to learn, it is compulsory on such a person to tweak their environment in a way that will be possible for them to learn online.
They need to ask themselves that, what exactly makes it difficult to learn online? Why I'm I unable to learn online?
Is it like I just don't feel comfortable or I don't understand what is being explained or there is no competition?
So, when you identify the problem, it's going to be easy to solve it.
For example, you find out that when you take online classes, you don't really learn fast or something. It might be because in online classes it's very easy to get distracted.
So you might want to ensure that whenever you want to take classes, maybe 30 minutes before the class, you are going to lock all of the apps on your phone except the one that you want to use for the class. And another 30 minutes after to revise for the class.
Guest speaker : Abdur-Rahmaan Adedokun
