How a student of knowledge can benefit from the summer vacation
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Question:
How can a student of knowledge make the best use of this vacation, which is at the door, in the most complete way?
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. As for what follows, the student of knowledge does not actually have a vacation. Even if he has a vacation from the formal studies, he does not have a vacation from the scientific aspect. Because he needs to provision himself with knowledge, and he needs to connect the information to one another.
So he spends this summer vacation in strengthening his information and developing his understanding, and that is through reading. Which helps him to understand his past lessons and retain them. And likewise, he uses it to prepare for the future. The academic future. So that he enters the new studies prepared to continue seeking knowledge.
As for if he becomes lax and cuts off the studies, cuts off the review, and cuts off reviewing the information to provision himself with knowledge, then his knowledge is cut off, and the new academic year begins as if he had nothing before, or had something weak, or he has forgotten what came before. So the student of knowledge does not have a vacation from seeking knowledge. Even if he has a vacation from the formal aspect. He does not have a vacation from provisioning himself with knowledge, to preserve what came before and prepare for what is to come.
And in the hadith:Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 18:815 Mishkat al-Masabih 260 And he does not get bored, rather his desire and his savoring of knowledge increase, and his heart and his understanding attach themselves to knowledge when he tastes its flavor and longs for it. He takes pleasure in it and does not tire with it. This is the affair of the diligent student in this break, and in all his states. Yes, he gives his body rest and his soul rest that does not prevent him from seeking knowledge and does not occupy him from provisioning himself with information. So he does not neglect his lessons, and he does not neglect his seeking of knowledge. Even if he rests a little from the worry that was in the time of formal studies. And there is no doubt that seeking knowledge, if it is with the rest of the soul, is more firm and more lasting. And as for if seeking knowledge is with the fatigue of the soul for formal studies, it may not be as required. But he is in seeking knowledge wherever he is and whenever it is. Yes.
How can a student of knowledge make the best use of this vacation, which is at the door, in the most complete way?
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. As for what follows, the student of knowledge does not actually have a vacation. Even if he has a vacation from the formal studies, he does not have a vacation from the scientific aspect. Because he needs to provision himself with knowledge, and he needs to connect the information to one another.
So he spends this summer vacation in strengthening his information and developing his understanding, and that is through reading. Which helps him to understand his past lessons and retain them. And likewise, he uses it to prepare for the future. The academic future. So that he enters the new studies prepared to continue seeking knowledge.
As for if he becomes lax and cuts off the studies, cuts off the review, and cuts off reviewing the information to provision himself with knowledge, then his knowledge is cut off, and the new academic year begins as if he had nothing before, or had something weak, or he has forgotten what came before. So the student of knowledge does not have a vacation from seeking knowledge. Even if he has a vacation from the formal aspect. He does not have a vacation from provisioning himself with knowledge, to preserve what came before and prepare for what is to come.
And in the hadith:
Two are never satisfied: a seeker of knowledge and a seeker of this world,
مَنْهُومَانِ لا يَشْبَعَانِ طَالِبُ عِلْمٍ وَطَالِبُ الدنيا،he who is greedy for knowledge can never get enough of it
وطالب العلم لا يشبع من العلم
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، كيف يستفيد طالب العلم من الإجازة الصيفية – الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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