Shaykh Nazeer Majiet only began his hifz after matric, on his father's one condition. From Shaykh Yusuf Agherdien's hifz school in Chiappini Street he went on to Darun Na'im, al-Tanzil and the Darul Uloom in Strand, then to Cairo, where he graduated from al-Azhar and sat with the mashayikh of the madyafas, among them Dr Ahmad al-Tijani. Today he heads the Arabic and Tafsir departments at the Imam Kurani Institute.
This sitting is about taking a few steps back: starting nahw and sarf again six years into his studies, the gold of Egypt that lies outside the university walls, and why a chain to the Prophet ﷺ needs a transmitted understanding as well as transmitted words.
00:00 Cold open: the isnad of understanding
00:40 Welcome to Rooted
01:35 What was I like as a teacher?
02:13 Hifz after matric: the father's condition
05:24 The oldest boy in the hifz class
06:59 Shaykh Yusuf, Chiappini Street
13:06 Pressures, parents and provision
15:01 Tajwid and the first Arabic
17:37 Darun Na'im: the year that changed everything
19:35 Arabic institute, al-Tanzil and Mawlana Saalim
24:20 The push to Strand
28:13 What Strand gives
34:45 Egypt twice, and a Madinah acceptance
46:25 Inside al-Azhar
52:06 Placement exams
59:58 Beyond the university walls
1:05:53 The madyafa and Shaykh Ahmad
1:14:46 Teaching at home
1:19:53 Favourite tafasir
1:20:35 What isnad means
1:23:17 Advice to three people
1:31:59 Closing
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