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It's actually something Allah expects every human being to be working towards. We want to be able to access wisdom

We want to be able to live with wisdom. So what in the world is wisdom?

This new short series is based on the findings of Dr. Sakeb Hussein in his PhD thesis

Wisdom in Nukran, which was summarized and presented by Austad Nurman in front of a live audience. The link to the full paper is in the description

In episode one, we're looking at the purpose of learning about wisdom

But when I was doing the lecture series on Sultal Jumwa, the ayah came that mentions wisdom

That Allah sent a messenger among the unlettered people who were levy ba'athafil ummiyina Rasulam minhum

Yatlu alayhim ayatihi, he recites Allah's ayat to these unlettered people

When you zaki him, he purifies them

When you alimuhumul kitab, he teaches them the book

When Hikmah, he teaches wisdom

And when we got to that portion of wisdom, I had studied the subject before

And I became a little more curious than I was before looking into what Allah means by wisdom

What, why is he saying, okay, he teaches them the book that sounds like the Qur'an, he teaches them the Qur'an

And then he mentions he also teaches wisdom

And so I wanted to take a deeper look at the word wisdom

I was very fortunate that one of the people on our team, Dr. Sakeb Hussein, whose paper I will put a QR code on the screen tomorrow inshallah

So you guys can take a scan of it and you can get access to his paper to he did a PhD paper out of the University of Oxford on Hikmah in the Qur'an

And it's a 350 page exhaustive PhD paper

And I started reading it when I was in Germany and I said there's no way I'm going to be able to do this while I'm in Germany

So I stopped, I completed my series on Surat Al-Jumrah but one subject was outstanding, a good look at Hikmah in the Qur'an

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