"To benefit from a Dīnī talk, there are two requirements:

1) Ṭalab: to listen with a yearning and desire to gain from it.
2) Iḥtiyāj: to consider oneself to be in need of what is being said.

Just participating and listening to talks, without these, will not bring change in one's life. The disbelievers of Makkah Mukarramah had many opportunities to listen to our beloved Nabi sallalahu alayhi wasallam, but did not change because they neither had ṭalab nor iḥtiyāj."

Courtesy of In Shaykh's Company: a blog maintained by the students of Shaykh Muhammad Saleem Dhorat hafizahullah www.shaykh.org