Assalāmu‘alaykum wa Rahmatullāh,
In the words of one of my shaykh:
"Ya student of knowledge! If your knowledge is above average, your worship has to be above average also..."Welcome ... let us embark on this noble journey, bi idhnillāh
Hayyākumullāh
LIGHT READING:
Advice To The Students Of Knowledge [Shaykh Muhammad ibn ̣Ṣālih al-‘Uthaymīn
rahimahullāh]
http://www.islamhouse.com/p/144913
* pdf attached
PRIMER:
The Manners Of The Seeker Of Knowledge [Abu ‘Abdillāh Muhammad Sa‘īd Raslān]
http://www.islamhouse.com/p/145561* pdf attached
SOLID:
Hilyah Ṭālibul ‘Ilm / The Etiquette Of Seeking Knowledge [Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd
rahimahullāh]
http://www.islamhouse.com/p/339187http://www.scribd.com/doc/7718690/The-Etiquette-of-Seeking-Knowledge-Bakr-Abu-Zaid
BONUS:
From The Characteristics Of The Salaf [Shaykh Ahmed Farīd]
http://forums.islamicawakening.com/f40/from-the-characteristics-of-salaf-ahmad-fareed-16945/
http://www.kalamullah.com/personality.htmlAnd if you obey most of those upon the earth, they will mislead you from
the way of Allāh. They follow not except assumption, and they are not
but falsifying[al-An‘ām 6:116]
O you who have believed, protect yourselves and your families from a
Fire whose fuel is people and stones, over which are [appointed] angels,
harsh and severe; they do not disobey Allāh in what He commands them
but do what they are commanded[at-Tahrīm 66:6]
So flee to Allāh ...[adh-Dhāriyāt 51:50]
... Only those fear Allāh, from among His servants, who have knowledge (al-‘Ulamā'). Indeed, Allāh is Exalted in Might and Forgiving
[Fāṭir 35:28]
... So ask the People of Knowledge (Ahl adh-Dhikr) if you do not know[an-Nahl 16:43 & al-Anbiyā' 21:7]
Competition in [worldly] increase diverts you. Until you visit the graveyards (i.e. until you die)
[at-Takāthur 102:1-2]
Know that the life of this world is but amusement and diversion and
adornment and boasting to one another and competition in increase of
wealth and children - like the example of a rain whose [resulting] plant
growth pleases the tillers; then it dries and you see it turned yellow;
then it becomes [scattered] debris. And in the Hereafter is severe
punishment and forgiveness from Allāh and approval. And what is the
worldly life except the enjoyment of delusion[al-Hadīd 57:21]
... Rabbanā zidnā ‘ilman ...
Allāhummā innā nas'aluka ‘ilman nāfi‘a, wa rizqan tayyiba, wa ‘amalan mutaqabbala*** life is an open book exam... which book are we reading? ***