Where do you get your knowledge from? (prophet, atheist, confess)

[TashaN]

Of course i'm talking about your knowledge about Islam.

Is it school, Masjid "Mosque", Parents, college, from a scholar directly, or just self learning and googling , etc.?

If i didn't mention yours, you can tell us about it.


Thanka in advance.

[Peace]

Originally Posted by The Truth

Of course i'm talking about your knowledge about Islam.

Is it school, Masjid "Mosque", Parents, college, from a scholar directly, or just self learning and googling , etc.?

If i didn't mention yours, you can tell us about it.


Thanka in advance.

Salamu 'alaikum,

Mawlid mubarak!!

I got my knowledge of Islam from my dear mom, she is the one who brought me up as well as my siblings on an Islamic education alhamdulillah. I thank Allah every moment for my wonderful mom as well as my wonderful dad who is a great father as well. But the one who taught me the teaching of Islam is my mom. For the meantime I get my knowledge still from my mom but also from books and TV channels and even from the internet
What about you brother ?

Peace

[TashaN]

Oh my God, i wrote a long post then i lost it.

[TashaN]

Again.

I believe that my real knowledge started when i came over to Malaysia to study. Of course, i remember alot of stuff of what they taught me in school in Saudi Arabia but it wasn't that deep and it was just one opinion which all of us MUST believe in.

Then in Malaysia i got the chance to meet so many Muslims from many sects in Islam and from other faiths as well. I learnt a fair amount of knowledge from a student of a student of Ahmad Deedat "may Allah's mercy be upon shikh", This guy is actually a student of Dr. Zakir Naik, he is a former Hindu and reverted to Islam. He is soooooo gooooood.

After that i started to read more and more for so many scholars of Islam and listen to so so many lectures by so many scholars of Islam around the world (Arabic and English).

Later on i started my own way by reading alot of books in various aspects of Islam and the best was a very big complete Tafseer for Ibn Katheer, also the Seera and the life of prophet Mohammed.

The next step was, to get knowledge from the internet and i can't deny that it gave me a quick and very effective way to learn, but at the same time, i had to be carfull not to fall a prey to misguiding websites. Alhamdulilah, i'm still leaning everyday from people around me and from all of you guys.

I have to confess that i don't have that deep knowledge but alhamdulilah, i try to learn more and more everyday as much as i can.

[Peace]

Originally Posted by The Truth

I have to confess that i don't have that deep knowledge but alhamdulilah, i try to learn more and more everyday as much as i can.

So do I, my humble knowledge is nothing and it's not that deep, for I don't consider myself knowlegeable enough and I need to learn more and more because knowledge is an ocean that knows no end.

Peace

[anders]

The subject "religion", meaning unbiased teaching of what the most important religions world-wide are about, was still in the future when I went to school. We had "kristendomskunskap" (kunskap = knowledge) which dictionaries translate as "religion", but it was at least 90% about cental and northern European Lutheranism and the remainder was Roman Catholicism, Methodists and a couple of other Christian factions.

In those days, there was no masjid in Sweden, and I had met no Muslim (or Jew, for that matter. Come to think of it, when graduating from senior high school, I had met only Lutherans and one (1) atheist).

There was no Internet, so I used what's called "books".

[Master of the Wind]

Salaam,

Well first of course some of what we learned in the school in Saudi Arabia was only the basics for me. Although I wasn't that interested in reading more. But after my accident I rediscover how to be truly a Muslim, then I started to read more online, hearing from people who I knew they have knowledge and some books.

Googling is now my way to search faster and to read more !

Bests,

[mohamedhassan]

if i had knowledge i would tell you where i got it from, but i don't
I juss read things off websites and some random lectures. But i have a real thirst for islam. I have to learn arabic properly first lol

[fullyveiled muslimah]

Well it was pretty much self-taught. I like surround myself with good books, (I'm very picky about books), by authors of reknown like Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi, Imam Ghazali, books of tafsir by Ibn Kathir, Qurtubi, maulana Muhammad Yusuf Kandhlawi, etc.

I am wary of websites but a few I go to for like Q&A from ulama. One such site is www.askimam.org . I like that site because I am sure they are coming from Quran, Sunnah, and shariah for their answers. I only go to scholars who come from the most trusted sources, and ones who never tell me what I wanna hear but always tell me what deen says.

So basically I read books, Quran obviously and that's how I come across my meager knowledge of Islam.