A small companion
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The Scholar Who Kept Asking

It's said that Imam al-Shafi'i, still a young student, once spent an entire night trying to memorize a single page — and by morning, he still couldn't recall it. Frustrated, he went to his teacher, certain he wasn't cut out for this. His teacher told him something he carried the rest of his life: knowledge is a light, and light isn't given to those who feel ready for it — it's given to those who keep showing up in the dark, asking for it anyway.

Al-Shafi'i went on to become one of the four great jurists of Islamic scholarship — not because the material ever stopped being hard, but because he never stopped asking to understand it better. Some weeks, the page really won't stick. That's not a sign to stop. It's the whole point of the dua above.