May 24, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 11 segments
In this Q&A session, Ustadh Muhammad Tim Humble answers important questions many Muslims struggle with today, from calamities and trauma to Waswas, anger, seeking knowledge, interacting with scholars…
While we are waiting, um, and I know that the, the announcement for the class was a little late this week, so that's probably why we have a, a little bit of delay getting started.
But while we're waiting, I'm just looking through the last thing to be released on Ilm with AMU.
Um, I think it's worth, you know, taking a couple of benefits from there just to remind everyone.
And I'm-- I don't know how far everyone is, is through on this, but the idea of really developing for yourself a reading program is so important and the way that you structure your reading, because ultimately, again, you, you're between two things.
You know, you can fill rooms after room after room full of books, and it's tempting to sort of either go and read them all or don't read any.
And that's sort of like ifrat wa tafreet, that exaggeration that happens on both sides, where the temptation is either to read all of them, like in other words, I, I just wanna go and just pick random books off the shelf, and I wanna buy as many books as possible and just fill my house with books.
And trying to build a reading program that finds that middle ground, selecting what you read, making sure that what you read is in line with your studies, in line with the level that you're at, making sure that you're reading the best of each science, not just reading any book on the topic, but reading the best of what has been written on the topic.
So what we're looking for in a reading program, we divided it in week ten into three things.
A person is really looking for reading that is related to your study and your curriculum, and that's the first one.
So the reading of books that relates to your curriculum that you're studying right now.
Therefore, I need to be reading this book and this book and this book and this book.
And that doesn't have to be the same book you're studying, although that would be included, but it could be books around the topic.
It could be that the book refers to another book, uh, in more detail, so you go and read that, but it's connected directly to your study.
The second, and I think this is so important, is the reading which is semi-structured in the sense that it's purposeful reading.
While we are waiting, um, and I know that the, the announcement for the class was a little late this week, so that's probably why we have a, a little bit of delay getting started.
But while we're waiting, I'm just looking through the last thing to be released on Ilm with AMU.
Um, I think it's worth, you know, taking a couple of benefits from there just to remind everyone.
And I'm-- I don't know how far everyone is, is through on this, but the idea of really developing for yourself a reading program is so important and the way that you structure your reading, because ultimately, again, you, you're between two things.
You know, you can fill rooms after room after room full of books, and it's tempting to sort of either go and read them all or don't read any.
And that's sort of like ifrat wa tafreet, that exaggeration that happens on both sides, where the temptation is either to read all of them, like in other words, I, I just wanna go and just pick random books off the shelf, and I wanna buy as many books as possible and just fill my house with books.
And trying to build a reading program that finds that middle ground, selecting what you read, making sure that what you read is in line with your studies, in line with the level that you're at, making sure that you're reading the best of each science, not just reading any book on the topic, but reading the best of what has been written on the topic.
So what we're looking for in a reading program, we divided it in week ten into three things.
A person is really looking for reading that is related to your study and your curriculum, and that's the first one.
So the reading of books that relates to your curriculum that you're studying right now.
Therefore, I need to be reading this book and this book and this book and this book.
And that doesn't have to be the same book you're studying, although that would be included, but it could be books around the topic.
It could be that the book refers to another book, uh, in more detail, so you go and read that, but it's connected directly to your study.
The second, and I think this is so important, is the reading which is semi-structured in the sense that it's purposeful reading.
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