About this episode

The episode discusses the practical approach to learning Islam as a practice rather than a theoretical concept.

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil 'Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ash-sharafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen, Muhammadin Rasulullah ﷺ. Tasliman kathiran kathir. Humbabado. My brothers and sisters, we were talking about the issue of how do we approach learning the knowledge of Islam. As I mentioned to you yesterday, if you approach it from a non-practical angle, meaning that you are there to listen to some lecture or you are reading a book intellectually, then you don't gain anything from it. Because Islam is the name of a practice. It is not the name of a philosophy or a theory. If there is a philosophy or a theory, or you are reading history, for example, then nothing to do. You are just acquiring some information. So, say, supposing somebody says, let us read about the theory and the evolution of communism. You can read that. You will have knowledge of that. Similarly, anything else. But supposing somebody says, let us read about the evolution of judo. You can do that also. You can become the greatest scholar of judo. You can memorize entire books on judo. But you go out on the street and somebody attacks you, you are on the floor. You…

Topics covered

• Islam
• practice
• learning
• knowledge
• martial arts

Keywords

• Islam
• practice
• knowledge
• learning
• theory
• martial arts

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