The Importance of Memorizing Texts for the Student of Knowledge
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Question:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, is it necessary for the student of knowledge to memorize the texts, or is it sufficient to limit himself to reading them and understanding them?
Answer:
Memorization is necessary. Knowledge does not exist except through memorization combined with understanding, and one will not understand unless he memorizes. If he understands without memorizing, what he has will fly away; as soon as he leaves the place, he forgets. But if he memorizes the foundational texts and their explanations by the qualified scholars and teachers, they will be preserved by the permission of Allah, and he will have a reference. For this reason, they say: “Whoever neglects the foundations is deprived of the foundations.” The foundations are the concise summaries in the sciences. Yes.
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, is it necessary for the student of knowledge to memorize the texts, or is it sufficient to limit himself to reading them and understanding them?
Answer:
Memorization is necessary. Knowledge does not exist except through memorization combined with understanding, and one will not understand unless he memorizes. If he understands without memorizing, what he has will fly away; as soon as he leaves the place, he forgets. But if he memorizes the foundational texts and their explanations by the qualified scholars and teachers, they will be preserved by the permission of Allah, and he will have a reference. For this reason, they say: “Whoever neglects the foundations is deprived of the foundations.” The foundations are the concise summaries in the sciences. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 7686- أهمية حفظ المتون لطالب العلم - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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