Comments on: Knowledge on Steroids

By: Islamic Quotes

Islamic Quotes — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 11:59:55 +0000

I think it is about being balanced and with the right intention. As learning is a personal responsibility in Islam, one should be conscious that just taking the short courses will not suffice it. You have to actually spend hours and sometimes months and years in a company of a teacher to really learn some stuff which simply cannot be taught in an “intensive course”. One should take the benefit of both.

By: hamza

hamza — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 18:10:54 +0000

mashallah

By: a

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:36:06 +0000

salam. I thought the mentioned eminent personalities spending all those years to “learn” surah baqarah referred to the process of implementing all of its lessons in their own life, not just memorizing the words. can someone verify/refute this?

By: Syed

Syed — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:20:51 +0000

The kind of barakah present at their time is not present now. Al Maghrib uses short courses to reach a BA in Islamic Studies and that is their objective. Even though it may be a different way of learning I don’t see why that makes it worse. Subhanallah I do wish as a near-hafidh to spend so long memorizing Surah Baqara for 8 years, however, it just cannot be done with the lack of time between jobs, school, sleeping.
for at least six hours. Rather we could memorize it quickly then go back over it and refine it in my humble opinion. In today’s society you can do things slowly but not slow you stop doing the action