The More One Struggles For Knowledge, The More Blessed It Is
Yasir Qadhi
Muslim Central
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🗓️ 20 May 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This audio is brought to you by MuslimCentral.com |
| 0:30.9 | Perhaps many of you are not aware, but there has been so much effort to catalog and to upload |
| 0:37.6 | classical Islamic books so that they're on hard drives or even accessible, you can even |
| 0:42.3 | download them for free. And within a few hours, if you really wanted to, you could download |
| 0:49.1 | no exaggeration, more than 50, 60,000 volumes. And it is very easy for the average Muslim to have |
| 0:57.5 | a library on his hard drive that the majority of our ulema did not have. I repeat that because |
| 1:05.7 | it is a factual statement and I speak as somebody who has a good library and I have seen many good |
| 1:10.7 | libraries. The ability to download PDFs, to download obscure books, to download encyclopedias of |
| 1:19.5 | Islamic knowledge, whether it's in language and linguistics, whether it's in na'u, whether it is in |
| 1:24.6 | fiqh, whether it is in history, whether it is in any discipline. The average Muslim can download |
| 1:31.6 | onto his hard drive, fill his hard drive with libraries, PDFs, that is larger than the average |
| 1:39.5 | scholar, maybe even larger than most ulema in all of Islamic history. And yet, what is the results |
| 1:49.6 | of our knowledge versus their knowledge? What is the baraka that we have versus what they had? |
| 1:57.5 | And that really brings about a pause and a contemplation. Why is it that they might have had |
| 2:05.2 | less access? Like, let me give you a simple example, Hadith, right? Books of Hadith. You can now have |
| 2:13.3 | on your library over 200 books of Hadith. Most of these books, even the advanced scholars, |
| 2:21.2 | might not really have access to them a hundred years ago. They weren't printed. They were not |
| 2:25.5 | available. But now, any printing, somebody will PDF scan it and it's available online. And yet, |
| 2:32.5 | obviously, the baraka that we have is less than that of the classical scholars. Why? Many |
| 2:38.3 | reasons can be given, but I'll just give you one simple reality. What you get for free, |
| 2:45.3 | you don't appreciate it. And what you have to exert to get, you value it. That's one of the |
| 2:52.0 | main reasons. What you have to struggle to obtain, you will value that. And what is handed to you |
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