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- A student should stick to a book until they finish it.
- Memorization is divided into two:
- Memorizing the text as it is, for Qur’an, Hadith, Mutun. This requires going over and over again to be deeply grounded and rooted in your heart.
- Paraphrasing. Not exact words, but get the meaning. This is achieved through reading a lot.
How to memorize?
Imam Bukhari was asked this question and he said
“I do not know of anything more beneficial for memorisation than the aspirations of the man and consistent looking [at knowledge]”
- Do not move from a book before you have a good understanding of that book.
- Choose a comprehensive book in all of the fields.
- Revise your previous class before attending the new one. If possible find a friend to revise together, you might benefit from your colleague.
- Read in your spare time. And you should do the following in order to fully understand the book.
- Write the benefits
- Write the content page
- Summarize the books
- Bring back issues to the original form. When there are khilaf among the scholars, it is usually subsidiary issues. You need to know on what grounds the scholars are disagreeing about this issue. If you are able to do this you can achieve:
- Strengthen one over the other
- Rarely contradict yourself
- Stay away from strange opinions that go against the mainstream views.
- Do not go overboard in reading to the point classess and mutun are neglected.
- Giving importance to the books that are muhaqiqin (precise) from the scholars.
- Understand contemporary verdicts such as Shaykh Ibn Baz, Shaykh Ibn Uthaymin, Shaykh Al-Albani.
- Benefitting from books.
- Follow the curriculum.
- Beware of procrastination.
- Some of the salaf would say
“Procrastination is an army from the armies of Iblīs”
- Ibn Qayyim says
“Wishful-thinking is the capital wealth of the bankrupt”
- The poet said
“Do not delay a good action until tomorrow, perhaps tomorrow will come but you are missing”
- Hasan Al-Basri says
“Son of Ādam beware of procrastination. For you are in today and not tomorrow. If tomorrows comes to you then work tomorrow as you worked today. However, if tomorrow does not come, then you will not regret what you left off today”
- Yusuf ibn Asbat said
“Muhammad Ibn Samurah al-Sāih wrote to me with this letter: O’ my brother, beware of procrastination overcoming your soul”
- Yahya ibn Hubayrah said
“Time is the most worthy to be protected *** but I see it as that which is easiest for you to lose”
- Abdullah ibn ahmad said about his father Imam Ahmad
“By Allāh, we never saw him except smiling, reading or researching”
- It was said about Al-Khatib Al-Baghdadi
“I never saw al-Khatīb except in his hand was a book he was reading”
- The poet said
“See the days are passing us by, and only , are we heading to our finality whilst the eyes are looking
- Hasan Al-Basri said
“O son of Ādam, you are nothing except days, if your day goes so does part of you” “There is not a day from the onset of Fajr except it is said: O’ son of Ādam, I am a new creation and a witness over your action, so benefit from me, for when I go; I will not return until the Day of Judgement”
- Khalil ibn Ahmad Al-Farahidi the teacher of Sibawayh said
“The people have three times: a time which has passed and will not return. A time that you are in; therefore look at how it passes from you. A time you are waiting for and you may not reach it.”
- Muhammad ibn Abd Al-Baqi said about himself
“and I do not know anytime that I wasted time of my life-span in vain speech and playing”
- Ad-Dhahabi mentioned in the biography of Abd al-Wahhab Ibn al-Wahhab Ibn al-Amin about him:
“His time was guarded; so that an hour would not pass except that he was engaged in reading, dhikr, Tahajjud or listening”