Know O Noble reader, that beneficial knowledge is built upon the Book (the Quran) and the Sunnah. [Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Ibn Fawzān al-Fawzān (hafidzahullāh), al-Mulakhhaṣ al-Fiqhī, 1/10]

Channel
Inkpots of Ilm
@inkpots
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Cite this entry
198subscribers
-4 since we began measuring on 24 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001195083937 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @inkpots |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 24 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 3 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 5 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 3 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/inkpots |
Topic
Religion — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 24 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Oct 2026, 15:18 | 198 | -1 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 10:19 | 199 | -2 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 09:53 | 201 | -1 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 19:00 | 202 | no change |
| 24 Aug 2026, 18:45 | 202 | first reading |
Engagement
17 posts held, back to 23 March 2024 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 17 posts for this entry, the most recent from 28 June 2025. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
The Quran of the Tullab al-‘Ilm Q. How much Qur’an should a student of knowledge read a day? A. 5-7 Ajza* every day (or more or an equivalent portion) [Shaykh Firkous (hafidhahullah), an audio from the shaykh] Postscript: Ajza is the plural of the word Juz’ There are a total of 30 Juz’ in the Quran: 5 Ajza is 1/6th of the Quran 7 Ajza is 1/4th of the Quran That means, (either) completing the Quran in 7 days …
Delight in Worship, Good Deeds and Seeking Knowledge for the sake of Allah Ibrahim ibn Adham (rahimahullah): If the kings and their sons knew what (delight) we were experiencing (of inner-peace, sweetness of eemaan and happiness), they would have fought us with their swords over it! [Tārīkh Dimashq, Ibn Asakeer (rahimahullah), 4475] Sometimes, my heart experiences an overwhelming state (due to being in the comp…
ʿIlm: something that will not give you (even) part of it until you give it your whole... (Sacred knowledge will not give you a part of it until you give it your all) [al-Faqih wal-Mutafaqqih, Khateeb al-Baghdadi (rahimahullah), no. 859]
It is reported that az-Zuhri (rahimahullah) said to Yunus Ibn Yazid (rahimahullah) O Yunus! Do not try to overcome knowledge, for verily knowledge is (like vast) valleys: whichever of them you take will stop you before you traverse it. Instead, take it over the days and nights. And do not take knowledge all at once, for whoever tries to take it all at once will lose it all at once. Rather take it bit by bit over …
The du’a narrated in the text
The Quran of the Tullab al-‘Ilm Q. How much Qur’an should a student of knowledge read a day? A. 5-7 Ajza* every day (or more or an equivalent portion) [Shaykh Firkous (hafidhahullah), an audio from the shaykh] Postscript: Ajza is the plural of the word Juz’ There are a total of 30 Juz’ in the Quran: 5 Ajza is 1/6th of the Quran 7 Ajza is 1/4th of the Quran That means, (either) completing the Quran in 7 days …
al-Albani (rahimahullah) said: I am not the leader of a Jama’ah whatsoever. I am only a talibu ‘ilm (ie: student of knowledge) engaged in researching and al-taḥqīq (ie: verifying), The people of knowledge know the reality of what I am saying. We ask Allah the Mighty and Majestic to rectify the condition of the Muslims. [Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani (rahimahullah), Silsilah al-Huda wan-Noor, 10/1]
Imam Bukhari (rahimahullah) said: Before I wrote down a Hadith in Sahih Bukhari, I would perform Ghusl and pray 2 Rak'at. [Fath al-Bari Sharh Saheeh al-Bukhari, 1/489]
Ibn al-Qayyim (rahimahullah) stated: As for the happiness of knowledge, nothing will allow you to inherit it except the exerting of oneself, truthfulness in one’s seeking (of it) and the soundness of the intentions. [Ibn al-Qayyim (rahimahullah), Miftaah Daaris-Sa’aadah 1/167]
al-Muzani (rahimahullah) narrated that ash-Shafi’ee (rahimahullah) was asked, "How do you seek knowledge?" He (rahimahullah) replied, "Like a mother frantically searching for her missing child." [al-Muzani (rahimahullah), Manaqib ash-Shafi’ee (rahimahullah) by al-Bahaqi (rahimahullah), 144 and Tadhkirah as-Sami’ fi Adab al-‘Alim wal Muta’allim of Ibn Jama’ah (rahimahullah), pg. 3] A student of knowledge yearns to…
Every so often, the pleasure I take in seeking knowledge causes me to fear that I’ve reaped the reward of my good deeds in this world. [al-Yafi’i (rahimahullah), Shaykh ‘Abd el-Salam al-Shuqay’ir (hafidhahullah), al-Manhajiyyah fee Talab al-‘Ilm, pg. 9]
Showing the 12 most recent of 17 posts we hold for @inkpots. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
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“Inkpots of Ilm” (@inkpots), 198 subscribers as measured 3 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/inkpots.
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