Seeking knowledge of Islam is a necessity for the mandatory tenets of faith, acts of worship, and legal rulings of daily life. Aside from that, it is a most noble pursuit towards enlightenment and education while at the same time being a means of worship in and of itself. Personally, the fire of seeking ‘ilm had died out as life settled and issues became more taken for granted. And although I would still make some efforts towards accruing knowledge, I was less and less driven. Yet now that I find myself in a position of endeavoring to rediscover Islam from the ground up, it has rekindled itself as it once was in my long lost youth. There is now a purpose more intense than the generic ones. I have thus far studied informally for many years and experienced much by way of different ideogologies, methodologies, and Islamic cultures, practices, and trends. I have seen the confusion, disputes, and strife amongst my people, and it seems knowledge, far from simply being an academic exercise, is in fact a practical and necessary tool for the unification I wish to see for our Ummah. It is a blessing that at a time I should be settled for the rest of my life into a rote pattern of thought and practice that I have been given the chance to again feel the curiosity and wonder of youth. It was not deliberate, but now that I face the rebirth I am excited as I once was…

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