I had few questions on how to correctly send an email to your Shaykh. I read few threads before and also posts by brother Fusus Al hikam, which were very beneficial. I still had some questions, if some brothers and sisters could help me out, please 1. Should you tell your shaykh the sins you did in the week, like lieing, backbiting, misbehaviour? 2. Should you give details like the no. of ours of sleep, satiety levels etc. May be Shaykh could guide on how to get barakah even if one sleeps for less hours. 3. Should I update my shaykh about my wordly goals, for e.g I want to reach the deans list etc? 4. When do I know, I am being a burden to my shaykh. This plays a lot in my head, My shaykh has so many students and he still allows phone rabita, email rabita etc. I want to take the maximum but I dont want to be a parasite or appear selfish. 5. How does one give back to Shaykh. We learn so much and gain a lot but theres nothing that we do to give back except dua and hidmat. I strongly feel its unfair on the Shaykh. What should one do? 6. No matter what I do, I somehow appear slightly bay adab. May be its because we are products of western education and our manners and behaviour have changed to our genetic level !! something that we presume is humility may be actually bay adabi. How can one avoid this? 7. What is the perfect format of sending an email to your shaykh. JazakAllah Walaekum asalam