How Much Do I Know?

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate

Assalaamu alaykum

Dear Friends

I pray that you are well.

When you start learning the Sacred Knowledge and learn some terminology and read some hadiths, maybe you have read the entire Bukhari or the Riyadh as-Salihin or have taken a few Islamic lectures here and there, you think you are the only one who has the knowledge and the rest of the people are ignorant. You look around you and you start pointing out this is haram, that is haram, this is halal, this is makruh, this is a bid'a (innovation), that is a bid'a, that person is a kaafir, this person is a hypocrite, and so on.

After a while you realize that there are other people who have been studying like you and in fact they have more knowledge than you. So you become serious about seeking knowledge.

After years of seeking knowledge, maybe you have memorized the entire Qur'an, maybe you have a certain degree in Islamic studies, maybe you have of so many ijazah of this and that, you now realize that you are the most ignorant person on earth because this knowledge didn't take you to Allah Most High. You realize that everything that you have is given to you and you didn't gain them yourself.

If you don't apply what you know and don't practice your knowledge in your life, if you are not humble before Allah, if you are arrogant, it doesn't matter whether you have 30,000 Facebook fans or 300,000 fans worldwide and they all love you, because it doesn't help you see Allah. What matters is Allah, that you see Allah and if you don't see Allah, you know He sees you.

May Allah give us sincerity in our hearts and excellence in our worship. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.

And Allah knows best.
Wassalaam