Importance of Learning

How to learn

We need to keep on learning and increase our knowledge, but more importantly, increase our understanding about Allah, His Reality and His Nature. We have to observe and see how Allah lives, then admire and fall in love. This is what we need to do. In doing this, to be able to do a good job of understanding and learning Allah, there are certain procedures, exercises, visualizations and a betterment of action and reaction.

Why did Allah create more people than ourselves?
• To give us a stage where we can exercise our learning.
• To learn to make a better relationship and communication.
• To see the presence of Allah and nafs [ego] in the others and see the same thing in us.

To learn, you need a teacher. Who is the teacher? Allah is The Teacher. Who is the student? You are the student. Allah is This Energy that does not have any body or shape.

Say, “He, Allah, is Ahad [Unique; Formless], (Al Ikhlas:1)

Where is His Zat [Person]? He creates angels, prophets and masters to teach through
them. He uses their person for you to be able to see and talk and have a divine relationship, and you have to intend to establish or choose from among the established relationship systems as it suits you, and start a relationship with Allah as Your Teacher, and then you be the student. He teaches you and you learn.

What is learning?

But I want to make sure you understand what learning is. Learning is not listening. Learning is not memorizing certain knowledge into your brain. In education, learning is acting with the knowledge that you just learned, then you are really learning. That is why the real learning of Allah or anything, happens in you. That is why you should keep the balance. You should do whatever it takes to keep
1. Your body healthy and balanced
2. Your spiritual body balanced

You cannot just focus on spirituality and not on the material. Zahir and batin, outer and inner have to go together. No one-winged bird. So, Allah wants this learning to take place in the chemistry of love. It is tough to fight against your nafs. It is tough for everyone, not only for you.

This is an excerpt of the Online Saturday Sohbet given on June 4, 2016 by Murshid Shaykh Taner Vargonen Ansari, published in the Call of the Divine on June 13, 2016 and edited for this article on August 24, 2020. The translation of the Qur’an verses and keywords are from Murshid Shaykh Taner Vargonen Ansari.

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