Cone of Learning

I was reading an online forum, when I came upon this cone. Cone of Learning by Edgar Dale. I knew I heard about this read-hear-see-do effects before, but this one even have an example at every levels.

Which quickly prompts me to think about taalim sittings. Although the books are pretty much read everyday again and again, however the effect of hearing the hadith being read, compared to reading the hadith ourselves, will never be the same. At least 10% difference!

And the bigger benefit is to get the effects from all levels, reading, hearing, seeing, doing it.

No wonder our elders, among them Maulana Saad, asking us, beside attending our regular taalim, to do our own personal readings of books like "The Lives of Companions" (Hayatus Sahabah) and "Virtues of Charity" (Fadhail Sadaqat), at our own free times.

10% of what we read - Our own personal readings at our free times
20% of what we hear - Regular taalim sittings
70% of what we say - Daily individual dakwah, muzakarah, bayan
90% of what we say and do - Local efforts and go out in the path of Allah.

Beautiful, subhanallah!

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Saya sedang membaca satu forum di Internet, bila mana saya terlihat satu gambarajah mengenai "Cone of Learning" oleh Edgar Dale. Saya rasa, perkara tentang bagaimana pembacaan, pendengaran, penglihatan, dan perlakuan boleh memberi kesan yang berbeza, sudah diketahui ramai.

Apa yang lebih menarik ialah, kewujudan contoh pada setiap aras dalam gambarajah ini. Yang sangat mengingatkan saya kepada majlis taalim. Walaupun hadis yang dibaca telah berulang kali didengari, namun kesan dari mendengar hadis itu dibaca, tidaklah sama jika dibandingkan dengan kesan jika kita sendiri hanya membaca hadis itu. Sekurang- kurangnya 10%!

Manfaat yang lebih besar ialah, jika kesemua aras deria dapat digunakan untuk memberi lebih kesan kepada diri kita.

Tidak hairanlah, akabir kita, antaranya Maulana Saad, menyarankan agar kita, selain menghadiri majlis- majlis taalim kita, turut sama membaca kitab- kitab ini sendiri di waktu lapang kita.

10% dari apa yang kita baca - Bacaan kita di waktu lapang kita
20% dari apa yang kita dengar - Hadirnya kita mendengar di majlis taalim
70% dari apa yang kita cakap - Dakwah individu, perbincangan, dan bayan
90% dari apa yang kita buat - Usaha tempatan dan usaha keluar di jalan Allah.

Subhanallah!

Miscellaneous

According to the hadeeth narrated by the great Sahabi Ibn al-Hanzaliyyah, the Prophet (PBUH) told his Companions, when they were travelling to meet some brothers in faith: "You are going to visit your brothers, so repair your saddles and make sure that you are dressed well, so that you will stand out among people like an adornment, for Allaah (SWT) does not love ugliness."[1]

The Prophet (PBUH) also advised moderation in food and drink: "There is no worse vessel for the son of Adam to fill than his stomach, but if he must fill it, the let him allow one-third for food, one-third for drink, and one-third for air."[2]

`Umar (RAA) said: "Beware of filling your stomachs with food and drink, for it is harmful to the body and causes sickness and laziness in performing prayers. Be moderate in both food and drink, for that is healthier for your bodies and furthest removed from extravagance. Allaah (SWT) will hate the fat man (one who revels in a life of luxury), and a man will not be condemned until he favours his desires over his religion."[3]

"Have a bath on Fridays and wash your heads, even if you are not in a state of janabah (impurity, e.g. following marital relations), and wear perfume."[4]

Imam Ahmad and al-Nisa'i report that Jabir (RAA) said: "The Messenger of Allaah (PBUH) came to visit us, and saw a man who was wearing dirty clothes. He said, `Could this person not find anything with which to wash his clothes?'"

Bukhari reported from `Urwah (May Allah be pleased with her) via `Ata': "We heard `Aa'ishah the Mother of the Believers cleaning her teeth in the room . . ."[8]

Muslim also reports from `Urwah (May Allah be pleased with her) via `Ata': "We heard her using the siwak . . ."[9]

`A'aishah (May Allah be pleased with her) said: "The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) never woke from sleeping at any time of day or night without cleaning his teeth with a siwak before performing wudu'"[10]

The Prophet's concern for oral hygiene was so great that he said: "If it were not for the fact that I did not want to overburden my ummah, I would have ordered them to use the siwak before every prayer."[11]

`Aa'ishah (May Allah be pleased with her) was asked what the Prophet (PBUH) used to do first when he came home. She said, "Use siwak."[12]


They are also at the heart of Islaam because the Prophet (PBUH) urged cleanliness on many occasions, and he detested unpleasant odours and an ugly appearance. He said: "Whoever eats onions, garlic or leeks should not approach our mosque, because whatever offends the sons of Adam may offend the angels."[13]


This is reported in the hadeeth quoted by Abu Dawud from Abu Hurayrah (RAA), who said: "The Messenger of Allaah (PBUH) said: `Whoever has hair, let him look after it properly.'"[14]

The Prophet (PBUH) did not like people to leave their hair uncombed and unkempt, so that they looked like wild monsters; he likened such ugliness to the appearance of the Shaytaan. In al-Muwatta', Imaam Malik reports a hadeeth with a mursal isnad from `Ata' ibn Yassar, who said: "The Messenger of Allaah (PBUH) was in the mosque, when a man with unkempt hair and an untidy beard came in. The Prophet (PBUH) pointed to him, as if indicating to him that he should tidy up his hair and beard. The man went and did so, then returned. The Prophet (PBUH) said, `Is this not better than that any one of you should come with unkempt hair, looking like the Shaytaan?'"[15]

The Prophet (PBUH) always took note of people's appearance, and he never saw a scruffily-dressed man with untidy hair but he criticized him for his self-neglect. Imaam Ahmad and al-Nisa'i report that Jabir (RAA) said: "The Messenger of Allaah (PBUH) came to visit us, and he saw an unkempt man whose hair was going in all directions, so he said, `Could he not find anything with which to calm his head?'"[16]

Al-Qurtubi said: "Makhul reported from `Aa'ishah (May Allah be pleased with her): `A group of the Companions of the Prophet (PBUH) were waiting at the door for him, so he prepared to go out to meet them. There was a vessel of water in the house, and he peered into it, smoothing his beard and his hair. (`Aa'ishah said) I asked him, "O Messenger of Allaah, even you do this?" He said, "Yes, when a man goes out to meet his brothers, let him prepare himself properly, for Allaah (SWT) is beautiful and loves beauty."[17]

He regarded dressing well and looking good to be a demonstration of the Blessings of Allaah (SWT): "Allaah (SWT) loves to see the signs His gifts on His servant."[18]

Ibn Sa`d reports in al-Tabaqat (4/346) that Jundub ibn Makith (RAA) said: "Whenever a delegation came to meet the Messenger of Allaah (PBUH), he would wear his best clothes and order his leading Companions to do likewise. I saw the Prophet (PBUH) on the day that the delegation of Kindah came to meet him; he was wearing a Yemeni garment, and Abu Bakr and `Umar were dressed similarly."

Ibn al-Mubarak, Tabarani, al-Hakim, al-Bayhaqi and others report that `Umar (RAA) said: "I saw the Messenger of Allaah (PBUH) ask for a new garment. He put it on, and when it reached his knees he said, `Praise be to Allaah (SWT), Who has given me clothes with which to cover myself and make myself look beautiful in this life.'"[19]

Therefore Imaam Abu Hanifah (RAA) always took care to dress well and to ensure that he smelled clean and fresh, and urged others to do likewise. One day he met a man who used to attend his circle, who was dressed in scruffy clothes. He took him to one side and offered him a thousand dirhams with which to smarten himself up. The man told him, "I have money; I do not need this." Abu Hanifah admonished him: "Have you not heard the hadeeth, `Allaah (SWT) loves to see the signs of His gifts on His servant'? So you have to change yourself, and not appear offensive to your friend."

"Wretched is the slave of the dinar, dirham and fancy clothes of velvet and silk! If he is given, he is pleased, and if he is not given, he is displeased." ^[22]

"A man's tongue is half of him, and the other half is his heart; What is left is nothing more than the image of flesh and blood."[23]

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Footnotes

1 Reported by Abu Dawud, 4/83, in Kitab al-libas, bab ma ja'a fi isbal al-izar; its isnad is sahih.

2 A sahih hasan hadith narrated by Ahmad, 4/132, and Tirmidhi, 4/18, in Kitab al-zuhd, bab ma ja'a fi karahiyyah kathirat al-akl.

3 Kanz al-ummal, 15/433. See also the valuable article on the harmful effects of over-filling the stomach on a person's body, mind and soul, by Muhammad Nazim Nasimi MD in Hadarah al-Islam, Nos. 5, 6, Vol. 15.

4 Fath al-Bari, 2/370, Kitab al-jumu'ah, bab al-dahn li'l-jumu'ah. Note: the command to wear perfume applies to men only; it is forbidden for women to wear perfume when they go out. [Translator]

5 A hadith narrated by 'Abdullah ibn 'Umar and recorded as sahih by Abu 'Awanah, Ibn Khazimah and Ibn Hibban. See also Fath al-Bari, 2/356, Kitab al-jumu'ah, bab fadl al-ghusl yawm al-jumu'ah.

7 See Samihah A. Wirdi, Min al-riqq il'al'sayadah, Damla Yayinevi No. 89, p. 28ff.

8 Fath al-Bari, 3/599, Kitab al-'umrah, bab kam a'tamara al-Nabi (r).

9 Sahih Muslim, 8/236, Kitab al-Hajj, bab 'adad 'amar al-Nabi (r) wa zamanihinna.

10 A hasan hadith, narrated by Ahmad (6/160) and Abu Dawud (1/46) in Kitab al-taharah, bab al-siwak.

11 Fath al-Bari, 2/374, Kitab al-jumu'ah, bab al-siwak yawm al-jumu'ah; Sahih Muslim, 3/143, Kitab al-taharah, bab al-siwak.

12 Sahih Muslim, 3/143, Kitab al-taharah, bab al-siwak.

13 Sahih Muslim, 5/50, Kitab al-masajid, bab nahi akil al-thum wa'l-basal 'an hudur al-masjid.

14 Reported by Abu Dawud, 4/108, in Kitab al-tarajjul, bab fi islah al-sha'r; its isnad is hasan.

15 al-Muwatta', 2/949, Kitab al-sha'r, bab islah al-sha'r.

16 A sahih hadith reported by Ahmad (3/357) and al-Nisa'i (8/183) in Kitab al-zinah, bab taskin al-sha'r.

17 See Tafsir al-Qurtubi, 7/197.

18 A hasan hadith narrated by Tirmidhi, 4/206, in Kitab al-isti'dhan, bab athar al-ni'mah 'ala'l-'abd.

19 See Al-Targhib wa'l-Tarhib, 3/93, Kitab al-libas wa'l-zinah.

20 Sa hih Muslim, 2/89, Kitab al-iman, bab tahrim al-kibr.

21Fath al-Bari, 10/334, Kitab al-libas, bab qass al- sharib; Muslim, 3/146, Kitab al-taharah, bab khisal al-fitrah.

22 Fayd al-Bari, 6/81, Kitab al-jihad, bab al-hirasah fi'l-ghazw fi sabil-Allah.

23 See Hashimi (ed.), Jumharah Ash'ar al-'Arab, 1/300, published by Dar al-Qalam, 1406 AH.

5 golongan yang perlu ada di markaz / 5 types of people that should exist in every markaz

5 golongan rakan seusaha yang perlu wujud di setiap markaz di seluruh dunia:

1 - Mereka yang sedia keluar bila- bila masa
2 - Mereka yang sedia keluar tanpa had masa
3 - Mereka yang sedia keluar dengan sesiapa sahaja
4 - Mereka yang sedia keluar ke mana- mana
5 - Mereka yang sedia keluar semata- mata kerana Allah

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5 types of brothers that should exist in every markaz throughout the whole world:

1 - Those who are willing to go out any time
2 - Those who are willing to go out as long as needed
3 - Those who are willing to go out with anyone, no matter who
4 - Those who are willing to go out anywhere
5 - Those who are willing to go out only for the sake of Allah