The Shaykh’s (may Allah have mercy on him) advice regarding sincerity in seeking knowledge.

The questioner: May Allah reward you. I apologize for calling you at this time. We know that your time is too precious to be wasted with... but Allah knows that the conversation... at night regarding this issue, I cannot do it at night, because at night you are with other brothers. I only want advice, if Allah wills, from you.

The Shaykh : Please, go ahead.

The questioner: O Shaykh, I usually, before calling you...

The Shaykh: Yes, seek guidance from Allah. Ah, you know yourself better than the one you ask for a ruling. If you know from yourself that in your seeking of knowledge you are not sincere, then you must correct your intention and make your seeking of knowledge and your asking me or others for it for the sake of that acquisition. If that is, as you know from yourself, for other than Allah (Mighty and Majestic), then the matter is easy and the key is in your hand, and that is to be sincere in your intention in seeking knowledge. And if the matter is as I suspect, and Allah knows best, and you are after that better informed than I am about yourself, if the other case is as we hope, and I mean by that that you are sincere in seeking the knowledge mentioned earlier, then the issue does not go beyond a type of trial that a Muslim is tested with in every time and in every place. In this case, the tested Muslim must be patient and persevere and continue in seeking beneficial knowledge. Then Allah (Mighty and Majestic) will, after that, inevitably make the path of knowledge easy for him, as is customary and known in many of the texts of the Shari'ah. Especially since the Noble Qur'an, in its general text, affirms this truth when our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) said in the Noble Qur'an: , and in my opinion, someone like you does not need me to remind you of what is in the Qur'an and the Sunnah regarding the command to be sincere in intention in the worship of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), all worship, whether it is prayer, fasting, Hajj, knowledge, or otherwise, as in the general text of our Lord (Blessed and Exalted is He) in the Qur'an: , and the hadith: You are, if Allah wills, aware of it. So I suspect that you are currently being tested. And our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) says in the Noble Qur'an: , ; so the types of trial, trials are of various types. So the important thing is that the Muslim, male or female, should rectify his or her intention with Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He). This is what I have as an answer to your question, and perhaps you have understood it, if Allah wills. I have finished now, do you have anything else? Yes, this is a natural matter. May Allah bless you, because I am truly now being called from all parts of the Islamic world, so you will find the line busy. And I advise you, if you are able, to acquire one of the modern phones, which have a button, a press, meaning if you dial a number and it comes up busy, as is your situation with my phone, you press the button, and that button keeps requesting the desired number for you until the first opportunity when the desired number's phone is free. This phone gives you the request or the desired number. Has this device reached you? Yes, meaning automatically. This is very important for your eagerness to seek knowledge. So perhaps you can ask about it and you will have taken the prescribed worldly means, and the rest is up to Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He). This is the summary of what I have, and we ask Allah for success for you. And peace be upon you. She says that she is eager for... The answer is that she is afraid that she is not sincere in seeking knowledge because she read a translation of Bashr al-Hafi that he, in his seeking of knowledge, the knowledge of hadith, and Allah, I forgot the word, but the meaning is that he was not sincere in it, and therefore he was not successful in it. So she says, I am afraid that her case is like Bashr's case because of what is made easy for her to connect with, despite her eagerness. And the answer, you heard it, means that self-accounting is very precise. And upon you be peace and the mercy of Allah and His blessings. I ask Allah to make our deeds sincere.

The questioner : How are you, Shaykh?

The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, I am well.

The questioner : May Allah bless you.

The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you.

The questioner: I am a Saudi youth, truly, and I came to Jordan, and I really want to sit with you, truly.

The Shaykh: By Allah, truly, my brother, I have no free time, I have no leisure.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh: And time to sit with every good brother like you.

The questioner : May Allah bless you, O Shaykh.

The Shaykh: But tomorrow, if Allah wills, you will pray the Friday prayer at Salah al-Din Mosque at the Fourth Roundabout.

The questioner : May Allah bless you, O Shaykh.

The Shaykh: You will pray the Friday prayer at Salah al-Din Mosque.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh: At the Fourth Roundabout.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh: And there will be the meeting after the prayer, if Allah wills.

The questioner: I wish I could see you, by Allah, truly I miss you, O Shaykh, very much.

The Shaykh: Paradise misses you.

The questioner: May Allah bless you. May Allah bless you, O Shaykh.

The Shaykh : And may He reward you.

The questioner: May Allah bless you. Goodbye, O Shaykh.

The Shaykh: Peace be upon you.

The questioner : And upon you be peace, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.