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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Understand

Upon seeing one of his students reading a difficult book, a teacher said,

“Don’t read that book yet.”

The student replied, 

“I promise only to take from it what I understand from it.”

“It is not what you understand that concerns me,”

 responded the teacher, 

“but what you think you understand.”


– Shaykhna b. Mahfudh

Reference: Yusuf, H. (2011, March 26). The Sin Tax of Ignoring Syntax. Sandala Productions. Retrieved March 30, 2011, from http://www.sandalaproductions.com/Blog/26-the-sin-tax-of-ignorning-syntax.aspx

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