More lectures by him here.

Shaikh mentions about Umar’s advice of teaching the children 4 things, and one of them was to teach them poetry. May I ask what is the wisdom/benefit of that?

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I think it was to make them masters of Arabic grammar, I remember listening in a lecture by either Kamel Mekki or Mamdouh Mohamed that the Sahabah and generally Arabs of that time were very strict in teaching Arabic + Arabic grammar to their kids (or I read it on the Multaqa), but Allahu Alam, I’m trying to recollect something from distant memory. Can someone please confirm?

Yes, but i thought that poetry wasn’t really encouraged for us…but i suppose if it was to refine Arabic language then it must be in different connotation…

is there an email address so that i contact shk tawfique via email to ask him a question?
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dear Br Tawfiq .
a.a.
listened onYoutube to your speech
“Once We Were Men “…-
Mashaaallah..excellent talk.
Just to correct.
Tariq ibn Ziyad ( 8th century) & his followers did not go beyond the Iberain peninsula (Spain , Portuguese & South France).
Islam reached the East Europe much after the 15th century after the libertion of Constantinople ( Istanbul ) by Muslims in 1453.
Thanks
Sincerely
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