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I repeat that because it is a factual statement and I speak as somebody who has a good library and I have seen many good libraries.

The ability to download PDFs, to download obscure books, to download encyclopedias of Islamic knowledge, whether it's in language and linguistics, whether it's in na'u, whether it is in fiqh, whether it is in history,

whether it is in any discipline, the average Muslim can download onto his hard drive, fill his hard drive.

With libraries, PDFs, that is larger than the average scholar, maybe even larger than most ulama in all of Islamic history.

And yet, what is the results of our knowledge versus their knowledge?

What is the barakah that we have versus what they had?

And that really brings about a pause and a contemplation.

Why is it that they might have had less access?

Like, let me give you a simple example, Hadith, right?

Books of Hadith.

You can now have, on your library, over 200 books of Hadith.

Most of these books, even the advanced scholars, might not really have access to them 100 years ago.

They weren't printed. They weren't other available.

But now, any printing, somebody will PDF scan it and it's available online.

And yet, obviously, the barakah that we have is less than that of the classical scholars.

Why? Many reasons can be given.

But I'll just give you one simple reality.

What you get for free, you don't appreciate it.

And what you have to exert to get, you value it.

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