With what does the beginner student of knowledge begin?
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The questioner : How does the student of knowledge begin...?
The Shaykh : First, the student of knowledge should not seek knowledge except from a shaykh in whose knowledge and religion he has confidence... A beneficial rule is that the beginner student of knowledge starts with concise books. A person in his youth should not carry anything but... what? ... He grows up little by little... eighty... kilograms... In any case, the beginner student of knowledge must treat himself with... the lightest, then the lighter... then with the books... As for what the Companions studied, they did not exceed ten verses until they learned them... There is in them knowledge and practice of the Sunnah, then... especially in the rulings and their authentic hadiths... It relieves the student of hadith... In books of fiqh, he looks at the concise and beneficial book according to what he is directed to... In books of grammar, which many... of the students find difficult, you find him reading and reading and making mistakes... in a single word, ten mistakes according to the most correct... A concise, explained, and blessed book, by the permission of Allah... And I urge the university students... in grammar that it is in fact a summary of books...
The Shaykh : First, the student of knowledge should not seek knowledge except from a shaykh in whose knowledge and religion he has confidence... A beneficial rule is that the beginner student of knowledge starts with concise books. A person in his youth should not carry anything but... what? ... He grows up little by little... eighty... kilograms... In any case, the beginner student of knowledge must treat himself with... the lightest, then the lighter... then with the books... As for what the Companions studied, they did not exceed ten verses until they learned them... There is in them knowledge and practice of the Sunnah, then... especially in the rulings and their authentic hadiths... It relieves the student of hadith... In books of fiqh, he looks at the concise and beneficial book according to what he is directed to... In books of grammar, which many... of the students find difficult, you find him reading and reading and making mistakes... in a single word, ten mistakes according to the most correct... A concise, explained, and blessed book, by the permission of Allah... And I urge the university students... in grammar that it is in fact a summary of books...