A Treasury of Guidance For the Muslim Striving to Learn His Religion 2

This pocket edition gathers and highlights advice and guidance from Sheikh Muqbil رحمه الله to the Muslims who are striving to gain knowledge and implement it in their everyday lives.

"..if a person gives importance to acquiring books, then Allāh, the Most Perfect and the Most High makes this easy. I do not mean that you should gather books just for appearance as some of the people do. We visit some of the people from Ahlus Sunnah and find that they have a brand new library, yet his state is as is said :

'There are a large number of volumes with the Sheikh,

But in truth, he does not actually read them,'

Rather, acquire books and then devote yourself to reading them. Just as the wife of Imām az - Zuhree said to him when she found him so engrossed with his books, and perhaps lacking in the time spent interacting with her. She said 

" By Allāh! Your books are harder on me than if you had three more wives!'

In such a way this is necessary for the student of knowledge, if he makes the goal of gaining beneficial knowledge secondary to pursuing worldly aims then he will not gain significant knowledge. The same is the case if he makes knowledge merely a means to attain worldy benefits or makes his efforts of calling to Allāh and His religion a means to worldly benefit,"

- Sheikh Muqbil رحمه الله