Set clear, precise, well-defined goals, and be determined to realise them.
When your goal isn’t clear, you automatically put in less energy and enthusiasm in achieving it.
When your goal isn’t clear you loiter and waste time, and eventually waste your life.
When you are not determined, you give up at the first difficulty; you are not able to trudge through the dark, murky waters.
This applies to most things but especially to ṭalab al-ʿilm, and even more so to ḥifḏh al-Qurʾān.
And this is exactly what Prophet Mūsā a.s. did on his journey in search of knowledge. He set a very clear goal and he was determined to achieve it,
وَإِذْ قَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِفَتَاهُ لَا أَبْرَحُ حَتَّىٰ أَبْلُغَ مَجْمَعَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ أَوْ أَمْضِيَ حُقُبًا
{And [mention] when Moses said to his servant, “I will not cease [traveling] until I reach the junction of the two seas or continue for a long period.} al-Kahf:60
[From a course on sūrat al-Kahf that I’m teaching this Ramaḍān, more details here.]
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