The Etiquette of the Scholar with His Students.
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The Shaykh : A person should be wise in his teaching when disseminating knowledge, such that he presents to the students matters that their minds can grasp, and does not come to them with difficult problems. He should nurture them with knowledge, little by little.
For this reason, some of them said in defining the divine scholar (al-'alim al-rabbani): "The divine scholar is the one who nurtures people with the small matters of knowledge before the large ones."
And we all know that a building is not brought in all at once and placed on the ground to become a constructed palace; rather, what is it? It is built brick by brick until the construction is complete.
Therefore, the teacher should consider the minds of the students, such that he presents to them what their minds can comprehend.
For this reason, [the scholars] are commanded to narrate to people what they know. Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said:.
For this reason, some of them said in defining the divine scholar (al-'alim al-rabbani): "The divine scholar is the one who nurtures people with the small matters of knowledge before the large ones."
And we all know that a building is not brought in all at once and placed on the ground to become a constructed palace; rather, what is it? It is built brick by brick until the construction is complete.
Therefore, the teacher should consider the minds of the students, such that he presents to them what their minds can comprehend.
For this reason, [the scholars] are commanded to narrate to people what they know. Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: