The Best Way to Preserve the Sunnah and the Athar
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: What is the best way to preserve the Sunnah and the Athar?
The Shaykh:
If you find a scholar who memorizes and explains to you, that is the way. As for memorizing without receiving the meanings of what you memorize from a scholar, that memorization will not benefit you in any way. Yes, memorization, mere memorization, is not enough. You must memorize from one of the scholars who explains it to you; this is the method of learning and teaching. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
They memorize the day's reading and the teacher explains it, and they memorize tomorrow's reading and he explains it, and so on, little by little.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: What is the best way to preserve the Sunnah and the Athar?
The Shaykh:
If you find a scholar who memorizes and explains to you, that is the way. As for memorizing without receiving the meanings of what you memorize from a scholar, that memorization will not benefit you in any way. Yes, memorization, mere memorization, is not enough. You must memorize from one of the scholars who explains it to you; this is the method of learning and teaching. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
They memorize the day's reading and the teacher explains it, and they memorize tomorrow's reading and he explains it, and so on, little by little.
Source
إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان 07-01-1435هـ — af.org.sa (53:10)
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