Here are some benefical points to those who are learning, for the book 'The Etiquettes of Seeking Knowledge' by Shaykh Bakr Aboo Zayd.

• Knowledge is worship.
• Be adherent to the path of the salaf sa-Saalih.
• Commit to fearing Allah.
• Lower your wings and put arrogance and pride behind you.
• Your capital-O seeker-is from you shaykh.
• Consider the shaykhs status.
• Beware of bad company.
• Emigrating for the sake of seeking knowledge.
• Occasional revision of knowledge.
• Seeking refuge in Allah when seeking knowlegde and acquiring it.
• truthfulness.
• precision and correction reading.
• Diplomacy not compromise (on behalf of the religion).
• Beware of grammatical errors (in arabic).