What is your opinion regarding the project we are undertaking to index Sahih al-Bukhari on the computer, and are you able to review it?
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The questioner: Something new has come out. I am saying that the system is a program to index Sahih al-Bukhari on the computer. It will be released soon, if Allah wills. I think it is Sahih al-Tirmidhi, or perhaps Sahih Ibn Majah. What is your opinion of it, if you are aware of this project?
The Shaykh: If I have not seen it, how can I give my opinion?!
The questioner: I mean, if you could become familiar with the project so that you can give us your opinion... We know some of the young men... in Kuwait, we know some of the young men... So we are asking you, if you are able to look at it, to evaluate it. You see, your advice is necessary for a project like this.
The Shaykh: Looking at it requires that I have a computer, is that not so?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: And I do not have a computer. Even if I were to obtain it by one means or another, I would have to practice how to use it. And then, how could I devote myself to both matters? Perhaps one person could have a computer and have this tape on which Sahih al-Bukhari or Sunan al-Tirmidhi is recorded, and I could devote myself to attending the gatherings of some of those who own this. Perhaps this whole matter is possible, perhaps. But can I actually manage to dedicate some of my time to it?
The student: Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh: And upon you be peace, and upon you be peace. For a project like this? The answer is, I will tell you, practically it is not possible. Why? Because the computer market now is established. For example, you are speaking to me about Sahih al-Bukhari and Sunan al-Tirmidhi. Do you not have information that perhaps Sahih al-Jami' al-Saghir and Da'if al-Jami' al-Saghir, which is what has been released on the computer, do you have information about that?
The questioner: No, I do not... No, by Allah.
The Shaykh: I am asking you, I am telling you, do you have information or not? Did you give it there?
The student: And I took it, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: May Allah reward you with good. In the name of Allah, one like me devotes himself to this and that and that, because the creation of man is weak. I mean, for example, it is supposed that I listen to the radio news, I read the newspapers, I read the magazines, and so on. As it was said that so-and-so the literary figure, it is supposed that he reads the tafsir of the Qur'an, he reads the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), he reads the commentaries on the books of hadith, and so on. This is not possible. Therefore, specialization is a matter imposed by the benefit of the Ummah first, and then by the weakness of man second.
The Shaykh: If I have not seen it, how can I give my opinion?!
The questioner: I mean, if you could become familiar with the project so that you can give us your opinion... We know some of the young men... in Kuwait, we know some of the young men... So we are asking you, if you are able to look at it, to evaluate it. You see, your advice is necessary for a project like this.
The Shaykh: Looking at it requires that I have a computer, is that not so?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: And I do not have a computer. Even if I were to obtain it by one means or another, I would have to practice how to use it. And then, how could I devote myself to both matters? Perhaps one person could have a computer and have this tape on which Sahih al-Bukhari or Sunan al-Tirmidhi is recorded, and I could devote myself to attending the gatherings of some of those who own this. Perhaps this whole matter is possible, perhaps. But can I actually manage to dedicate some of my time to it?
The student: Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh: And upon you be peace, and upon you be peace. For a project like this? The answer is, I will tell you, practically it is not possible. Why? Because the computer market now is established. For example, you are speaking to me about Sahih al-Bukhari and Sunan al-Tirmidhi. Do you not have information that perhaps Sahih al-Jami' al-Saghir and Da'if al-Jami' al-Saghir, which is what has been released on the computer, do you have information about that?
The questioner: No, I do not... No, by Allah.
The Shaykh: I am asking you, I am telling you, do you have information or not? Did you give it there?
The student: And I took it, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: May Allah reward you with good. In the name of Allah, one like me devotes himself to this and that and that, because the creation of man is weak. I mean, for example, it is supposed that I listen to the radio news, I read the newspapers, I read the magazines, and so on. As it was said that so-and-so the literary figure, it is supposed that he reads the tafsir of the Qur'an, he reads the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), he reads the commentaries on the books of hadith, and so on. This is not possible. Therefore, specialization is a matter imposed by the benefit of the Ummah first, and then by the weakness of man second.
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