We should all make dua that Allah protect us from knowledge that does not benefit us (al ilmu la yanfa').
Listening to lectures through cassettes or DVD, IMHO, is not the best way to do it.
For the wives, the best is from the husband. For the daughters, the best is from the fathers and for us brothers, if we can find a teacher who is really good and take the lessons from him, that is the path that ALL the scholars and people of knowledge went through.
Allah could have inspired the prophet the way of Islam, but yet, Jibreel had to come and look like a man and ask him the questions and he provided the answers. This is the true tradition of seeking knowledge, from an aalim or a shaykh.
Even for the sisters, it is possible to find someone to teach and provide insights on that particular subject.
Because when you attend the class, not only that you use all your faculties to learn (visual, oral, listening,hands on), but also, you are trained to obtain the adab or etiquette of seeking knowledge which, sadly to say, as I have observed in many masajids and duroos, is thinning among the muslims.
When you listen to cassettes, you're deprived of the opportunity to ask and gain further explanation. This also happens in large gathering, which I'm not really fond of.
But, you have to do something about it, which I must commend all of you in your quest of becoming a better muslim.
may Allah make us among the shaakireen.
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