Memorizing the Three Texts and Sufficing with Ibn al-Qayyim’s Alfiyyah over the Poem on Manners
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Question:
The questioner says: I have intended, after memorizing al-Ifshariyyah, to begin memorizing Salam al-Wusul by Shaykh Hafiz al-Husni, and then to begin memorizing Ibn al-Qayyim’s Alfiyyah (may Allah have mercy on them). Does it contain enough of the manners to suffice and make memorizing the Poem on Manners unnecessary? This is because I do not want to burden myself with memorizing three texts at the same time?
Answer:
First of all, what is required is not merely memorization; what is required is reading to the people of knowledge. If you are memorizing, you read to the people of knowledge, and they explain these memorized texts to you. That is a good thing. But if you limit yourself to memorization only, without sitting with a scholar to explain to you the book you have memorized and clarify it for you, then this memorization will not benefit you; rather, it will become a youth without benefit. As for whether you memorize this or that, you memorize what comes to you. Memorizing the Alfiyyah and al-Masun, which you mentioned, does not suffice in place of memorizing the Poem on Manners. This leads you to other things; this is one thing, and these are other things. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
The questioner says: I have intended, after memorizing al-Ifshariyyah, to begin memorizing Salam al-Wusul by Shaykh Hafiz al-Husni, and then to begin memorizing Ibn al-Qayyim’s Alfiyyah (may Allah have mercy on them). Does it contain enough of the manners to suffice and make memorizing the Poem on Manners unnecessary? This is because I do not want to burden myself with memorizing three texts at the same time?
Answer:
First of all, what is required is not merely memorization; what is required is reading to the people of knowledge. If you are memorizing, you read to the people of knowledge, and they explain these memorized texts to you. That is a good thing. But if you limit yourself to memorization only, without sitting with a scholar to explain to you the book you have memorized and clarify it for you, then this memorization will not benefit you; rather, it will become a youth without benefit. As for whether you memorize this or that, you memorize what comes to you. Memorizing the Alfiyyah and al-Masun, which you mentioned, does not suffice in place of memorizing the Poem on Manners. This leads you to other things; this is one thing, and these are other things. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
شرح منظومة الآداب الشرعية [1] — alfawzan.live (50:20)
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