The Shaykh’s advice to join the scholarly gatherings and not to disperse, and an explanation of the effect of this on the hearts.

The Shaykh : ... joining and not dispersing. So whoever wishes to listen to knowledge, let him join the circle. It has come in the Sunnah in "Musnad al-Imam Ahmad" (may Allah have mercy on him), from the hadith of Abu Thalhah al-Khushani (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: "When we used to travel with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and we would stop at a place, we would disperse into the valleys and gorges. One day he said to us: . He said: So when we used to travel after that and stop at a place, we would gather together, until if we had sat on a single carpet, it would have been enough for us."
A large group walking in the desert, and when they would stop at a place, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) would urge them not to disperse there, but to gather and to stick together. This is because gathering of the bodies and physical forms has an effect on gathering the hearts and rectifying them. This is what is explicitly stated from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in the hadith narrated byThe Shaykh : ... in "both their Sahihs" from the hadith of al-Nu'man ibn Bashir (may Allah be pleased with them both), who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: .
The point of this hadith is only its last part, namely his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): . In this hadith, there is an explicit statement that the outward appearance is linked to the inner state, in terms of rectitude or corruption. If the heart is rectified, the body is rectified, and if the heart is corrupted, the body is corrupted. From this, we take a very important principle that many of today's contemporary Muslims overlook or pretend to overlook, who have not received any of the religious knowledge, and whose only law is their minds and their desires. So if you say to one of them, "Why do you not pray, for example?" he says: "The measure is not the prayer, but the measure is the rectitude of the inner state." He ignores this fact: that if his inner state—meaning his heart—were righteous, his outward appearance would be righteous, and vice versa. Therefore, every Muslim should care about rectifying his outward appearance and should not be deluded by what is settled in his heart, because the outward appearance is the title of the inner state. The outward appearance is the title of the inner state; this is not just the word of scholars and jurists, but this is what this authentic hadith indicates, which I am in the process of commenting on first, and then the first hadith, the hadith of Abu Thalhah al-Khushani, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded them to gather and not to disperse in the lodging place, even in a wide desert with far-flung edges. He commanded them to gather because this gathering of the bodies brings the hearts closer to one another.
Perhaps you have not forgotten what I reminded you of during the lining up for the midday prayer on this day, from what I mentioned at that time of his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): . So straightening the rows is an outward matter to which he (peace be upon him) linked, if those standing in the rows neglect it, that Allah will strike the hearts of some of them with others. So it is not permissible for a Muslim to be careless about rectifying his outward appearance under the claim that his inner state is righteous, because he is first lying to himself, let alone lying to others. For this reason, it is not part of the etiquette in Islam in any way for students of knowledge to sit like this as they please, dispersed from one another. Rather, they must join together. Finally, it came in "Sahih Muslim" that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "One day he entered the mosque and found the people dispersed in it, so he said to them: ," meaning: dispersed.
So we must remember this etiquette in receiving knowledge, whether the reception is by the method followed by scholars today—which is receiving questions and answering them—or by the old method that was and still is a common way of teaching people, which is that he sitsThe Shaykh : with his students and reads to them from the book, whether it is from tafsir, or from hadith, or from fiqh derived from the Book and the Sunnah, or one of them reads to him and then he comments on what was read and explains to them what may be obscure to them.
With this, I intended to remind you of this etiquette so that we finally turn to listening to some of the questions that have accumulated, to look into them and answer them to the extent that Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) grants us success and facilitates for us knowledge in them.